Sugar
The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service has established that aggregate quantities of up to 1,117,195 metric tons raw value or raw cane sugar may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption under the lower tier of duties provided by the tariff-rate quota for this product during fiscal year 2027 (Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2027).
USDA has also established that aggregate quantities of up to 22,000 MTRV of certain sugars, syrups, and molasses (refined sugar) may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption under the lower tier of duties provided by the TRQ for these products during FY 2027. Of this amount, 20,344 MTRV is reserved for any sugars, syrups, and molasses while 1,656 MTRV is reserved for specialty sugar.
Canada
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reports that, effective July 14, Canada has suspended imports from Texas of horses, mules, pigs, wild boar, cattle, bison, water buffalo, sheep, goats, deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer, llamas, alpacas, vicunas, guanacos, and Bactrian camels due to the detection of New World screwworm in the U.S.
Imports into Canada of these animals from any other U.S. state are permitted as long as the animals have not resided in or transited Texas during the 21 days immediately prior to export to Canada. Specified NWS certification statements must be added to any health certificate for export of these species to Canada, regardless of their state of origin, and as of Aug. 13 such certificates will be rejected if they do not contain these statements.
Colombia
According to FAS, Colombia’s Institute for the Surveillance of Drugs and Foods released June 30 a draft regulation establishing new procedures for recognizing and registering foreign facilities that manufacture and export food products classified as “high-risk,” including dairy products, meat and meat products, egg products, and seafood. FAS states that the new procedures would require foreign facilities that manufacture these high-risk products to follow additional registration requirements and undergo possible on-site audits.
However, the draft regulation specifically excludes the U.S. and other countries that maintain free trade agreements with Colombia. As a result, the process to register new facilities would remain unchanged for U.S. exporters.
Poultry
Effective June 24 APHIS removed restrictions on imports of poultry and related products originating from or transiting Maule and Araucania provinces in Chile that had been imposed due to concerns about highly-pathogenic avian influenza. As a result, no provinces in Chile are subject to such restrictions.
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