July 2017

14 Jul
The New US-Mexico Sugar Trade Deal

[caption id="attachment_16292" align="alignleft" width="103"] Chip Smith - Principle, A.N. Smith & Company and MJ Distribution[/caption] On June 6th, the United States’ Secretary of Commerce and Mexico’s Secretary of Economy announced a new US-Mexico sugar trade deal. This agreement, in principle, would suspend countervailing duties against Mexican...

10 Jul
Fair Trade Food For Thought:

Three years ago we began working as a distributor of Domino Sugars/Florida Crystals Fair Trade sugars. A year later, we began selling Fair Trade cocoa products for Indcresa and United Cocoa Processors. What we have learned in that time is that the added cost for the...