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USTR Announces Additions to FY 2016 Sugar Tariff-Rate Quotas

The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced country-by-country allocations of additional fiscal 2016 in-quota quantities of the tariff-rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar, specialty sugar and sugar-containing products (here). These TRQs are effective May 27:

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Raw Cane Sugar MRTV Increases for Remainder of FY 2016

Argentina 6,159; Australia 11,888; Belize 1,576; Brazil 20,768; Colombia 3,437; Costa Rica 2,148; Dominican Republic 15,000; Ecuador 1,576; El Salvador 3,724; Fiji 1,289; Guatemala 6,875; Guyana 1,719; Honduras 1,432; India 1,146; Jamaica 1,576; Malawi 1,432; Mauritius 1,719; Mozambique 1,862; Nicaragua 3,008; Panama 4,154; Peru 5,872; Philippines 19,336; South Africa 3,294; Swaziland 2,292; Thailand 2,005; Zimbabwe 1,719.

(Federal Register 05/27/16)