The move, which would displace the use of corn syrup, could hurt a key constituency and make the popular beverage more expensive.

President Trump's push to switch the sweetener in Coke to cane sugar could cost thousands of U.S. jobs, an influential corn industry group said. Why it matters: A can of soda just became a minor political crisis,

Asked about the switch, a representative for Coca-Cola didn’ explicitly say it would use cane sugar for products in the U.S.