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Show j Ask for Limit On Philippine Sugar Congress is being urged to restrict re-strict duty free importations of Philippine Phil-ippine sugar into the United State;! to 500,000 tor.?, annually. Stuph'.-n II. Love, of Salt Lake City, president ! of the United States Beet Sugar As-j As-j sociation, and Washington rcpnsen-j rcpnsen-j tative of the newly formed Domestic I Sdgar Producers Association arc 'leading the movement. Removal by Congress in 191'! of restrictions limiting free entry of Philippine sugar to 300,000 tons has resulted in increases of more ' in 300 per cent in sugar imports .mi the Islands since 1913, accordi) ;, t'j Mr. Love. This constitutes a menace men-ace to tho domestic beet sugar industry in-dustry now contributing over a 'billion 'bil-lion tons of sugar to the nat -u supply annually, it is pointed out. Domestic interests assert that fixing duty free limitation at 500,000 tons would check imports. At the maximum" maxi-mum" of present shipments, unchecked uncheck-ed importations, it is charged will ultimately sacrifice an annual income in-come to the American beet grower 'of $55,000,000 together with $225,-000,000 $225,-000,000 invested in., factories in favor of building a sugar supply 7,000 miles across the Pacific. I Failures and low earnings by beet ' su"-nr companies in recent years, according to Mr. Love, have been caused bv over expansion of tho ! cane industry in tropical countries. |