The Department of Agriculture has established the amounts of raw cane sugar and certain sugars, syrups, and molasses (collectively referred to as refined sugar) that may be imported under the lower tier of duties provided by the tariff-rate quotas for these products during fiscal year 2022 (Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022). Specifically, aggregate quantities of up to 1,117,195 metric tons raw value of raw cane sugar (unchanged from FY 2021) and 222,000 MTRV of sugars, syrups, and molasses (up from 162,000 MTRV) may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption under these TRQs during this period.
Of the latter quantity, 201,656 MTRV (up from 141,656 MTRV) is reserved for the importation of specialty sugars, and this TRQ will be opened in five tranches. The first, totaling 1,656 MTRV, will open Oct. 1, and all specialty sugars will be eligible for entry. The additional tranches will open Oct. 8 (60,000 MTRV), Jan. 21 (60,000 MTRV), April 15 (40,000 MTRV), and July 15 (40,000 MTRV) and will each will be reserved for organic sugar and other specialty sugars not currently produced commercially in the U.S. or reasonably available from domestic sources.
Further, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has allocated the in-quota quantity of the FY 2022 raw cane sugar TRQ as follows (in MTRV).
Argentina 45,281
Australia 87,402
Barbados 7,371
Belize 11,584
Bolivia 8,424
Brazil 152,691
Colombia 25,273
Congo (Brazzaville) 7,258
Costa Rica 15,796
Cote d’Ivoire 7,258
Dominican Republic 185,335
Ecuador 11,584
El Salvador 27,379
Fiji 9,477
Gabon 7,258
Guatemala 50,546
Guyana 12,636
Haiti 7,258
Honduras 10,530
India 8,424
Jamaica 11,584
Madagascar 7,258
Malawi 10,530
Mauritius 12,636
Mexico 7,258
Mozambique 13,690
Nicaragua 22,114
Panama 30,538
Papua New Guinea 7,258
Paraguay 7,258
Peru 43,175
Philippines 142,160
South Africa 24,220
St. Kitts & Nevis 7,258
Swaziland 16,849
Taiwan 12,636
Thailand 14,743
Trinidad & Tobago 7,371
Uruguay 7,258
Zimbabwe 12,636
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