Fiji sugar
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Big boost for Fiji sugar
Fiji now has unlimited access to the United States sugar market. This news arrived in the country in February from the US Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger, who wrote to the Prime Minister, Ratu Rir Kamisese Mara: “Fiji can ship as much sugar as it desires to the US, unencumbered by the restrictions of an individual quota ceiling”. Fiji’s quota had risen to 45,000 short tons a year. Dr Kissinger wrote that Fiji’s record as a supplier was a consistently good one.
About the same time Ratu Sir Kamisese received a “Thank you” letter from the British Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, for his part in bringing recent EEC sugar negoti ations to a successful conclusion (see P 77).