U.S.-Mexico Sugar Deal Amendments Upheld By Trade Court

The Trump administration’s recent amendments to agreements regulating the importation of sugar from Mexico will survive, the U.S. Court of International Trade said Thursday.

Under a pair of 2014 “suspension agreements” between the U.S. and Mexico, the Commerce Department agreed to halt trade investigations into Mexican sugar that could have led to antidumping and countervailing duties. The Mexican industry in return agreed to set minimum prices on different categories of sugar in order to mitigate the negative effects these imports were purportedly having on competing U.S. producers.

Sugar refiner CSC Sugar LLC successfully challenged amendments to these agreements negotiated by ...