US ethanol group blasts Brazil, food industry

03 July 2008 00:15  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--The president of the Renewable Fuels Association on Wednesday accused Brazilians and integrated food and meat processors of trying to undermine the US ethanol industry by pushing to remove the US tariff on the biofuel.

“The campaign being orchestrated by Brazilian sugar and ethanol producers, curiously coinciding with the campaign of multi-national food and meat processors, to remove the tariff is intentionally designed to mislead and misinform Americans about Brazilian ethanol and American biofuels policy,” RFA president Bob Dineen said in a statement.

“America does not tax nor does it prevent imports of Brazilian ethanol from entering our market,” Dineen said.

He added: “Rather, it ensures through the offsetting secondary tariff that Brazilian ethanol producers cannot reap subsidies from American taxpayers."

He said large amounts of ethanol already enter the US without the tariff through the Caribbean Basin Initiative.

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