date:May 09, 2016
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 4 raised the 2015-16 specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (T.R.Q.) by 22,046 short tons, raw value (20,000 tonnes) to accommodate increased U.S. demand for organic sugar and other specialty sugars.
The additional sugar may enter the United States beginning May 9. The 2016-17 (beginning Oct. 1, 2016) raw cane sugar T.R.Q. was set at 1,231,497 tons (1,117,195 tonnes), the minimum required under World Trade Organization agreements and unchanged from 2015-16.