Congressman Scott Perry Leads GOP Effort to Save Pennsylvania’s Chocolate

Congressman Scott Perry Leads GOP Effort to Save Pennsylvania’s Chocolate. “ Everyone loves chocolate. But confectioners of all sizes are under significant threat if we don’t revise the looming tariffs on our chocolate manufacturing industry, ” said Congressman Scott Perry. “ With the support of my colleagues, I contacted the Trump Administration to request a fair and balanced trade policy – one that won’t inadvertently hamstring thousands of hardworking Americans in the chocolate industry, especially here in Pennsylvania. I specifically asked the United States Trade Representative to exclude cocoa beans and its related products from tariffs, because cocoa cannot be grown in the U.S. - it must be imported. Cocoa trees grow exclusively within 20 degrees of the Equator, making America’s chocolate industry entirely dependent upon imports because there’s no alternatives or substitutes. These products fuel a thriving domestic chocolate manufacturing industry that employs tens of thousands of Americans, many of them in Pennsylvania – precisely the kinds of domestic manufacturing jobs the Trump Administration is working so diligently to  protect. ” Read the letter here.