Background

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is reallocating 76,571 metric tons raw value of the original in-quota quantity of the fiscal year 2021 tariff-rate quota for imported raw cane sugar from countries that do not plan to fill their previously allocated quantities. USTR notes that allocations to countries that are net importers of sugar are conditioned on receipt of the appropriate verifications of origin and that certificates for quota eligibility must accompany imports from any country for which an allocation has been provided.

The country-by-country reallocations (in MTRV) are as follows.

Argentina 3,962

Australia 7,648

Belize 1,014

Bolivia 737

Brazil 13,361

Colombia 2,211

Costa Rica 1,381

Dominican Republic 16,217

Ecuador 1,014

El Salvador 2,396

Eswatini (Swaziland) 1,474

Fiji 829

Guatemala 4,423

Guyana 1,106

Honduras 921

India 737

Jamaica 1,014

Malawi 921

Mauritius 1,106

Mozambique 1,199

Nicaragua 1,935

Panama 2,672

Peru 3,778

South Africa 2,119

Thailand 1,290

Zimbabwe 1,106

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