Show j I Sug I Plead for Aid WASHINGTON Dec 9 UP UP- UP U. U S. S sugar producers Thursday asked the tariff commission to give them more protection against imported imported imported im im- im- im ported sugar Bugar In a statement to the commission commission commission commis commis- sion they asked that there be no reduction in the present duty of 50 cents a hundred pounds on Cuban sugar and 68 cents on other foreign sugar They also proposed that all aU re reciprocal rc- rc trade agreements covering covering cover cover- I ing sugar provide that any tariff concessions be suspended when the sugar act of 1948 expires or whenever the acts act's quota limitations limitations limitations limita limita- on foreign sugar imports are inoperative The Thc statement was Wa made on behalf behalf behalf be be- half of the American Sugar Cane CaneI I II I league e a g u e representing Louisiana cane growers the tile Puerto Rican Sugar Producers the thc Farmers Farm Farm- ers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar the Florida Cane Growers the Hawaiian Sugar Planters I and the thc U. U S. S Beet Sugar I I |