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  2. Sugar Act - Wikipedia

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    The Sugar Act 1764 or Sugar Act 1763, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of ...

  3. Jones–Costigan amendment - Wikipedia

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    The bill contained a subsidy for growers, supported by a tax levied on processors. In the case of sugar, the tax amounted to one half cent per pound. It was the imposition of this tax that Justice Owen Roberts cited as unconstitutional. Congress reaffirmed the tariff and quota portions of the bill the same year, and adopted a new Sugar Act in 1937.

  4. Townshend Acts - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation, from this kingdom, of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the said colonies or plantations; for discontinuing the drawbacks payable on china earthen ware exported to America; and for more effectually preventing the ...

  5. Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia

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    After the Sugar Act 1764 was instated, exports fell in the coming years, according to records. On the other hand, mainland rum production rose during those years. The Sugar Act 1764 was later repealed by the Revenue Act 1766, and a penny-per-gallon tax was placed on British and foreign molasses imports. This law marked the first large-scale ...

  6. Midday Report: Sugar Subsidies Could Send Candy Prices Higher

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    The Sugar Act of 1934. The Farm Bill of 2008. They're not on the radar of most consumers, but those laws have a big impact on sugar prices, and right now that could mean higher prices for your ...

  7. Samuel Adams - Wikipedia

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    Sugar Act The first step in the new program was the Sugar Act 1764 , which Adams saw as an infringement of longstanding colonial rights. Colonists were not represented in Parliament, he argued, and therefore they could not be taxed by that body; the colonists were represented by the colonial assemblies, and only they could levy taxes upon them ...

  8. Sugary drinks may be driving millions of diabetes and heart ...

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    Sugar-sweetened beverages were responsible for an estimated 9.8% of new type 2 diabetes cases and 3.1% of cardiovascular disease cases worldwide in 2020, a new study found. ... People can also act ...

  9. 24 Discontinued '70s and '80s Foods That We'll Never Stop Craving

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    3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.