USTR Announces Additions to FY17 Sugar Tariff-Rate Quotas
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced country-by-country allocations of additional fiscal year 2017 in-quota quantities of the tariff-rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar. USTR also announced sugar may be entered under the FY17 TRQ until Oct. 31, 2017, one month later than the usual last entry date. These TRQs are effective Aug. 2:
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Raw Cane Sugar MRTV (metric tons raw value) Increases for Remainder of FY17
Argentina 15,575; Australia 30,064; Belize 3,984; Brazil 13,962; Colombia 8,693; Costa Rica 5,433; Ecuador 3,984; El Salvador 9,417; Fiji 3,260; Guatemala 17,386; Guyana 4,347; Honduras 3,622; India 2,898; Jamaica 3,984; Malawi 3,622; Mauritius 4,347; Mozambique 4,709; Nicaragua 7,606; Panama 10,504; Peru 14,851; Philippines 48,898; South Africa 8,331; Swaziland 5,795; Thailand 5,071; Zimbabwe 4,347.
(Federal Register 08/02/17)