“Our sugar producers and the Michigan Farm Bureau have come out against it because we do not have that big of a sugar industry. It is only a $500 million industry. But they feel with it coming in, and my colleague is right, over 15 years, the barriers would fall down. That would just about do the end of our sugar in Michigan.”
Discussing the impact of trade policies on Michigan's sugar industry.
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