USTR Announces Additions to FY20 Sugar Tariff-Rate Quotas
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced country-by-country allocations of additional fiscal year 2020 in-quota quantities of the tariff-rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar. USTR also announced increased allocations to the fiscal year 2020 tariff-rate quota for refined sugar.
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Raw Cane Sugar MRTV (metric tons raw value) Increases for Remainder of FY20
Argentina 19,185; Australia 37,032; Barbados 3,123; Belize 4,908; Bolivia 3,569; Brazil 64,694; Colombia 10,708; Costa Rica 6,692; Dominican Republic 30,000; Ecuador 4,908; El Salvador 11,600; Eswatini (Swaziland) 7,139; Fiji 4,015; Guatemala 21,417; Guyana 5,354; Honduras 4,462; India 3,569; Malawi 4,462; Mauritius 5,354; Mozambique 5,800; Nicaragua 9,369; Panama 10,000; Peru 18,293; South Africa 10,262; Thailand 6,246; and Zimbabwe 5,354.
Refined Sugar Increased Allocations for FY20
USTR is allocating 5,000 MTRV of the additional quantity for refined sugar to Canada, and the rest of the increase to the global tariff-rate quota, which may be supplied by any country on a first-come, first-served basis in seven tranches as follows: April 13 -- 95,000; April 27 -- 20,000; May 11 -- 15,000; May 18 -- 12,000; June 1 -- 12,000; June 15 -- 12,000; and June 29 -- 10,437.
(Federal Register 04/09/20)