The tax was imposed at the beginning of the year, since when aides to President Vicente Fox have indicated their opposition to the tax. As was the intention, the tax has encouraged domestic Mexican soft-drink companies to use sugar rather than corn syrup as a sweetener, thereby bolstering domestic sugar suppliers suffering from over-production.
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