CBP Posts Updated Country Allocations for In-Quota TRQ Raw Sugar Increases, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided information on the reallocation of additional tariff-rate quota for raw sugar and reallocation of unused 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative provided notice of the country-by-country allocations for both categories, effective April 26, 2012.
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(See ITT's Online Archives 12043002 for summary of the USTR announcement.)
On April 19, 2012, the Secretary of Agriculture announced an additional in-quota quantity of the TRQ for raw cane sugar for the remainder of FY 2012 (ending September 30, 2012) in the amount of 381,018 metric tons, raw value (MTRV), in addition to the minimum amount to which the U.S. already committed pursuant to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements. (See ITT Online Archives [Ref.12042419] and [Ref.12041824] and.)
USTR announced an additional re-allocation of 381,018,000 kg of the FY 2012 raw sugar TRQ and 73,446,000 kg from countries that are unable to fill their original allotted quantities; the total allocation is 454,463,000 kg. These allocations are based on the countries’ shipment history to the United States. The new restraint levels are as follows:
- Argentina ***70,215,000 kg
- Australia ***135,530,000 kg
- Barbados ***11,430,000 kg
- Belize ***17,962,000 kg
- Bolivia ***13,063,000 kg
- Brazil ***236,770,000 kg
- Colombia ***39,190,000 kg
- Congo *0 kg
- Costa Rica ***24,493,000 kg
- Cote d'Ivoire *0 kg
- Dominican Republic ***218,908,000 kg
- Ecuador ***17,962,000 kg
- El Salvador ***42,455,000 kg
- Fiji *0 kg
- Gabon *0 kg
- Guatemala ***78,378,000 kg
- Guyana ***19,594,000 kg
- Haiti *0 kg
- Honduras ***16,329,000 kg
- India ***13,063,000 kg
- Jamaica *****4,000 kg
- Madagascar **7,258,000 kg
- Malawi ****5,815,000 kg
- Mauritius ***14,880,000 kg
- Mozambique ***21,228,000 kg
- Nicaragua ***34,291,000 kg
- Panama ***47,354,000 kg
- Papua New Guinea **7,258,000 kg
- Paraguay **7,258,000 kg
- Peru ***66,949,000 kg
- Philippines ***220,441,000 kg
- South Africa ***37,556,000 kg
- St. Kitts & Nevis *0 kg
- Swaziland ***26,127,000 kg
- Thailand ***22,861,000 kg
- Trinidad-Tobago *0 kg
- Uruguay *0 kg
- Zimbabwe ***19,594,000 kg
- * Quantity removed ** Quantity unchanged *** Quantity increased **** Quantity decreased