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USDA Establishes Fiscal Year 2011 Tariff-rate Quotas for Raw, Refined, and Specialty Sugar
02.08.2010 09:35 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The U. S. Department of Agriculture today announced the establishment of the raw and refined and specialty sugar import tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 September 30, 2011).
The fiscal year 2011 import TRQ for raw sugar will be established at 1,231,497 short tons raw value (STRV), the minimum amount to which the United States is committed under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements. The fiscal year 2011 refined and specialty sugar TRQ will be established at 109,251 STRV. This amount includes the WTO minimum amount of 24,251 STRV, of which 1,825 STRV is reserved for specialty sugar, as well as an additional specialty sugar amount of 85,000 STRV to accommodate a rapidly expanding organic food sector. The refined and specialty sugar TRQ is reserved for sugar whose content of sucrose by weight, in the dry state, corresponds to a polarimeter reading of 99.5 degrees or more. The TRQs will be established in the Federal Register. This announcement does not include quantities of sugar that may enter the United States under applicable market access provisions of free trade agreements.
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