Tags: "Trade"

16 Aug
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Ensuring a Free Market for Sugar

We’ve weighed in on the massive distortions in the international sugar market before, with an eye on finding the best, most reasonable way to eliminate the tariffs and subsidies that government impose to artificially prop up industries. Sugar as a ...

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18 Sep
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Foreign “Sugar Dumps” Continue to Hurt Our Economy

It is easy for most Americans to not fully realize the effects of the sugar market on our economy. Sugar is an essential component to our agriculture industry that involves jobs, revenues, and affects the price of many other products. ...

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24 May
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New Study on Foreign Sugar Subsidies

As foreign suppliers jockey for position in the evolving global economy, it’s time for lawmakers to take a stand against a “hack” some countries have been using to give their sugar industries an unfair advantage over our own. A new ...

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05 Mar
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Response to Administration Announcement of Planned Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Hispanic Leadership Fund President Mario H. Lopez issued the following statement following the Trump Administration’s announcement of forthcoming massive tariffs on steel and aluminum imports: “Over the last year we have seen substantial progress on pro-growth economic policies that ...

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16 Jun
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Statement on Change in Cuba Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Hispanic Leadership Fund President, Mario H. Lopez, issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s speech today in Miami on Cuba policy: “The Hispanic Leadership Fund applauds President Trump for working to ensure that U.S. funds are ...

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07 Dec
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Obama Administration’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC) has just released a new report on the status of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a new trade agreement between the United States. and 11 other countries around the ...

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09 Jun
0

The Economic Benefits of Lifting the Ban on Crude Oil Exports

A paper released a few days ago by the American Council for Capital Formation lays out the significant economic benefits the United States could reap should Congress and the Administration allow crude oil to be exported to other countries, which ...

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26 Sep
0

HLF Launches Alliance for Innovation and Development

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today the Hispanic Leadership Fund announced the launch of the Alliance for Innovation and Development (A4ID), a coalition project that focuses on the promotion of new and innovative solutions to meeting the challenge of sustainable, long-term economic growth ...

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