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Title: Florida repeals citrus tax exemption; California citrus companies may absorb increased costs.(Brief Article)
Publication: Food & Drink Weekly (Newsletter)
Date: March 25, 2002
Publisher: Informa Economics, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 12 Page: 1(2)Article Type: Brief ArticleDistributed by Thompson Gale

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A trade-and-tax war is brewing between Florida and California -- the two largest citrus-producing states -- following legislative action to repeal a tax exemption on domestic citrus imports to Florida. If state officials let stand the tax exemption repeal, which could cost California companies as much as $1 million in new taxes, those companies will ask the California legislature to impose a similar reciprocal tax on Florida citrus imports, said Mike Wootton, the vice president of corporate relations for Sunkist Growers, California's largest growers' cooperative.