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Article: Sunkist Growers, the largest producer of lemon juice in the United States, has called on the federal government to impose anti-dumping duties on foreign importers of lemon juice.(BUSINESS BRIEFS ...)
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- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- October 23, 2006
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Sunkist Growers, the largest producer of lemon juice in the United States, has called on the federal government to impose anti-dumping duties on foreign importers of lemon juice. The company told a U.S. International Trade Commission panel that imports from Argentina and Mexico were being sold at below cost-price, a practice that was "causing material injury to the domestic U.S. lemon juice industry". Sunkist, which accounts for the majority of lemon juice produced in the U.S., is a marketing cooperative, owned by 6,000 grower-members in California and Arizona. "For the past three years, imports of lemon juice have been entering the U.S. in increasing volumes and at ...