The cost of sugar is something Phoenix chocolatier Jay Levine has definitely noticed.
“Originally, I’m from Canada, and going back to Canada and looking at the price of sugar there, it’s a lot less,” he said. “It’s like almost half price of what it is here.”
High sugar tariffs that have been in place for decades. The cost of sugar is double what it is in the rest of the world because of a combination of those tariffs, import restrictions and farmer subsidies…