Sugar Cane TRQs Released for FY20

In a notice scheduled to be published July 15 in the Federal Register, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has allocated the quotas in metric tons of imported cane sugar that can come in below the tariff rate of 15.36 cents per pound for raw sugar and 16.21 cents per pound for refined sugar.

The in-quota rate is either .0625 cents per pound, or is zero, either through the Generalized System of Preferences, a free trade agreement, or the Caribbean Basin Initiative. The notice says that regarding sugar-containing products in Chapter 17 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule code, Canada is allocated 59,250 metric tons, and the remaining 5,459 metric tons are available to any other country.