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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