USTR announces reallocation of sugar quotas

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2014 – The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) today announced country-specific reallocations of the fiscal year 2014 in-quota quantities of the World Trade Organization (WTO) tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for imported raw cane sugar.

TRQs allow countries to export specified quantities of a product to the U.S. at a relatively low tariff, but subject all imports of the product above a pre-determined threshold to a higher tariff.

Based on consultations with quota holding countries, USTR is reallocating 99,290 metric tons raw value of the original TRQ for raw cane sugar from countries that have stated they will be unable to fill previously allocated FY 2014 WTO raw sugar TRQ quantities.


USTR is allocating this quantity to the following countries in the quantities specified below:

 

 
  
 

Country

FY 2014 Reallocation

Argentina

4,523

Australia

8,730

Belize

1,157

Bolivia

841

Brazil

15,251

Colombia

2,524

Costa Rica

1,578

Dominican Republic

18,512

Ecuador

1,157

El Salvador

2,735

Fiji

947

Guatemala

5,049

Guyana

1,262

Honduras

1,052

India

841

Jamaica

1,157

Mozambique

1,367

Nicaragua

2,209

Panama

3,050

Peru

4,312

Philippines

14,199

South Africa

2,419

Swaziland

1,683

Thailand

1,473

Zimbabwe

1,262

*Figures are in metric tons.

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