Contents: I. South Africa's domestic production • II. U.S. sugar companies • A. Companies refining and selling sugar in the continental U.S. • 1. American Sugar Co. • 2. Sucrest Corp. • 3. National Sugar Refining Co. • 4. North American Sugar Industries • 5. Savannah Sugar Refining Corp. • 6. Southern Industries Corp. • 7. Gulf and Western Industries • B. U.S. Sugar companies which have bought S.A. sugar in the past • III. Determination of Sugar arriving the U.S. from S.A. and who buys it • IV. Possible effectiveness of a boycott • Sources of Information • South Africa was first allowed to import sugar to the U.S. in...
Contents: I. South Africa's domestic production • II. U.S. sugar companies • A. Companies refining and selling sugar in the continental U.S. • 1. American Sugar Co. • 2. Sucrest Corp. • 3. National Sugar Refining Co. • 4. North American Sugar Industries • 5. Savannah Sugar Refining Corp. • 6. Southern Industries Corp. • 7. Gulf and Western Industries • B. U.S. Sugar companies which have bought S.A. sugar in the past • III. Determination of Sugar arriving the U.S. from S.A. and who buys it • IV. Possible effectiveness of a boycott • Sources of Information • South Africa was first allowed to import sugar to the U.S. in 1962 when it was given a quota under the Sugar Act of 1948. This quota was increased in 1965 to a basic 48,000 tons, amounting to at least a $4 million annual subsidy for South Africa. This is a large amount of money for South Africa, but the proportion of South African sugar imported to the U.S. is very small. South Africa produces almost twice as much as is required for its domestic consumption, so it is a large earner of foreign exchange. In 1961-1965, the total value of sugar exports was $120 million. U.S. companies buying South African sugar are not only the U.S. sugar companies, but also companies like Pepsi-Cola Co. Tracking companies that buy South African sugar must be done by tracing cargo on specific ships; even with this information, one doesn’t know at which docks the sugar will be unloaded. Blocking unloading of sugar at the docks could not be an effective boycott strategy by itself, but such action could be used strategically, with good publicity, to try to impact a sugar quota bill in Congress. [Note: The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) offices in New York and Washington, D.C. were working on the sugar issue in 1969; one of them possibly created this document.]
