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Sugar Program: Supporting Sugar Prices Has Increased Users' Costs While Benefiting Producers

RCED-00-126 Published: Jun 09, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 09, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO estimated the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) sugar program's: (1) costs to domestic sweetener users; (2) benefits to domestic sugar and high-fructose corn syrup producers; and (3) net effects on the U.S. economy--the differences between the costs to users and the benefits to producers that result from artificially high sweetener prices.

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