Battle over Australian access to the U.S. sugar market could sink TPP’s potential. By Eric Johnson In the past few years, the United States has consumed around 11 million tons of sugar annually, or roughly 70 pounds per person. But the United States only produces about 8 million tons of sugar a year, meaning there’s a shortfall of some 3 million tons, a gap that has to be bridged through imports. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean is...