Chambliss, Coleman To Back CAFTA Despite Sugar Concerns.

The article reports that Senate Agriculture Chairman Saxby Chambliss and Senator Norm Coleman, Republican from Minnesota announced they would support the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) even though sugar growers oppose it. Chambliss and Coleman, both of whom had objected to the provision in CAFTA to allow more sugar imports, said they were satisfied that the sugar package they had negotiated with the U.S. government would allow the sugar program in the 2002 farm bill to continue to function.