[OT] wasRE: Cola Wars Re: [FH] americas

The reason the US products contain High Fructose Corn syrup/sugar is
that the US tariff on importing pure cane sugar is so high that it is acutally
cheaper to ship tons of corn syrup to Thailand, have them spike
the syrup with sugar and then re-import the sugar within the syrup back
to the US. IIRC the world price for sugar is 18 cents per pound, the cost for
imporation of pure sugar into the US is something like 50 cents per pound,
which is why you usually can only find Hawaiian sugar in most US stores.

So much for Free Trade...

--Binhan

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