IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 7 
Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that 
benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar-producing 
and -consuming countries should be eliminated. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 24, 2019 
Mr. YOHO (for himself, Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. 
JONES, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana, and Mr. 
MITCHELL) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect 
subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar 
by all major sugar-producing and -consuming countries 
should be eliminated. 
Whereas every major sugar-producing and sugar-consuming 
country in the world maintains some form of direct or in-
direct subsidy to support its sugar growers, processors, or 
consumers; 
Whereas virtually all of the more than 100 countries that 
produce sugar maintain market-distorting subsidy pro-
grams, including— 
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(1) the Government of Brazil which provides direct 
and indirect subsidies of at least $2,500,000,000 per year 
for programs to promote its sugar and ethanol industry 
and has increased subsidies in recent years in the form 
of preferential loans, debt forgiveness, and increased eth-
anol usage mandates; 
(2) the Government of India which provides at least 
$1,700,000,000 per year in subsidy supports to prop up 
its inefficient sugar industry, including WTO-illegal ex-
port subsidies in 2014, 2015, and 2018; 
(3) the Government of Thailand which has more 
than tripled its sugar exports since 2004 by providing at 
least $1,300,000,000 in subsidies and government pro-
grams to its sugar industry and by maintaining domestic 
prices well above export prices; 
(4) the Government of the European Union which is 
sending an estimated $665,000,000 per year in subsidies 
to sugar farmers; and 
(5) the Government of Mexico which has used direct 
and indirect subsidies to keep open sugar mills owned by 
private industry and the government has sent direct pay-
ments to sugarcane growers, and has been found guilty 
of injuring United States sugar producers by dumping 
subsidized sugar into the United States market; 
Whereas the world sugar market is the most volatile com-
modity market in the world; 
Whereas the foregoing clauses provide ample evidence there 
is no undistorted, free market in sugar in the world 
today; and 
Whereas if such a free market did exist, United States sugar 
farmers and processors could compete effectively in that 
market: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the President should seek elimination of all 
direct and indirect subsidies benefiting the produc-
tion or export of sugar by the government of— 
(A) each country that exported more than 
200,000 metric tons of sugar in 2016, 2017, or 
2018; and 
(B) by any other country with which the 
United States has in effect a free trade agree-
ment; 
(2) if the President determines that all such 
subsidies by all such countries have been eliminated, 
the President should submit a report to Congress 
providing detailed information about how each of the 
countries has eliminated such subsidies; and 
(3) after submitting such a report, the Presi-
dent should propose to Congress legislation to imple-
ment United States sugar policy reforms. 
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