Show american farm bureau urges raise in sugar tariff recent action of the american farm bureau federation represent ing farmers in this country in adopting resolutions at its an 1 nu nual a I 1 convention here urging congress to increase the tariff on foreign sugar and limit the duty free entry of sugar from the philippines and porto rico is seen as recognition that the present economic plight of the do 1 bestic sugar industry is also a factor in the farm relief problem we urge that the situation regarding gard Ms entry of sugar into the unit ed S states be brought to the attention of the members of congress without delay the resolutions set forth and an we respectfully ask them to use their best efforts to place a limit on the t free entry of sugar from the philippines phili p and porto rico to a point poi nt which will ill guarantee reasonable protection J to the united states sugar 1 industry and that the tariff rate against all foreign sugar be increased so as to give adequate protection to this great american enterprise future of sugar beets as a profitable ai american neriman farm crop is at stake according to stephen H love president of the U S beet sugar association cia tion more than banners in the united states raise sugar beets from which they realize annually from to while the domestic beet sugar industry covering eighteen states represents an investment in factories alone over interests of the farmers who raise the law materials and the manufacturers who produce the finished product are identical declared mr air love if the invasion of the united states market by foreign sugar produced by bv cheap labor under living conditions far below the american standard forces the price of domestic sugar down below the cost of production the american beet farmer fanner and cane grower are faced with competition they cannot meet nineta ninety nine per cent of all the sugar iiii imported ported into this country is supplied either duty free from our insular possessions or enters from cuba which enjoys a tariff rate 20 per cent below that paid by any other foreign country only one half of one per cent of all the sugar now entering this country pays full duty while in 1902 inore more than 86 per cent of our sugar imports paid full duty between and 1927 the imports arts of free inam mv sugar from our insular and of concessionary sugar from cuba increased from tons to tons a gain of per cent the cuban situation is becoming even more menacing to the domestic sugar industry this year with a crop restricted lestric ted to tons cuban raw sugar is selling in new york at 2 cents a pound or approximately 11 1 cents per pound less than it costs the american farmer to produce sugar in the beets even before the process of manufacture has begun in 1929 cuba will have no crop ic le and will produce at least a million more tons of sugar than in 1928 the only salvation for the domestic sugar industry is an in increase in the tariff sufficient to keep cuba from dumping this enormous increase on the american macket at ruinous prices |