Professor Robert Kudrle is quoted in this Washington Post article explaining the new deal between the U.S. and Mexico on sugar exports, and how it impact consumer prices.
Quoted from the Washington Post:
...the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, calculated the consumer cost of higher sugar prices at almost $3 billion a year.
“That’s a cost of between $10 and $11 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.,” said Robert Kudrle, a professor of international trade policy at the University of Minnesota. “It’s why U.S. sugar policy is used in textbooks to illustrate the political economy of protectionism. A very small group of people have managed to get public policy to favor them -- basically by taxing the rest of the population.”
Robert
T. Kudrle, professor, also is an adjunct faculty member with the
University of Minnesota Law School. He studies industrial organization,
public policy toward business, and international economic policy. Much
of his recent research has examined economic relations among industrial
countries. He has served as a consultant and expert witness for the
Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a consultant
to the Internal Revenue Service, Canadian Department of Consumer and
Corporate Affairs, U.N. Center on Transnational Corporations, Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, Agency for International Development,
and Urban Institute. Kudrle has been vice president of the International
Studies Association.