USDA Announces Increase in Fiscal Year 2011 Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ) and the Reassignment of Sugar Marketing Allotments

USDA Announces Increase in Fiscal Year 2011 Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ) and the Reassignment of Sugar Marketing Allotments

WASHINGTON, 4/11/2011
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a reassignment of 325,000 short tons raw value (STRV) of surplus cane sugar marketing allotment from domestic sugarcane processors to the fiscal year (FY) 2011 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). This reassignment is effective April 12. The Federal Register notice is viewable online here: http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-08570_PI.pdf. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) will announce country allocations of this TRQ increase, and will also reallocate shortfalls of the FY 2011 TRQ. USDA is today announcing the reassignment of projected surplus beet sugar marketing allocations under the FY 2011 Sugar Marketing Allotment program.

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