Notice2025-13425
Determination of Total Amounts of Fiscal Year 2026 WTO Tariff-Rate Quotas for Raw Cane Sugar and Certain Sugars, Syrups and Molasses
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July 17, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentForeign Agricultural Service
Abstract
The Foreign Agricultural Service announces the establishment of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (October 1, 2025-September 30, 2026) in- quota aggregate quantity of raw cane sugar at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), and the establishment of the FY 2026 in-quota aggregate quantity of certain sugars, syrups, and molasses (also referred to as refined sugar) at 22,000 MTRV.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 135 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33361-33362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13425]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Determination of Total Amounts of Fiscal Year 2026 WTO Tariff-
Rate Quotas for Raw Cane Sugar and Certain Sugars, Syrups and Molasses
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Foreign Agricultural Service announces the establishment
of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (October 1, 2025-September 30, 2026) in-
quota aggregate quantity of raw cane sugar at 1,117,195 metric tons raw
value (MTRV), and the establishment of the FY 2026 in-quota aggregate
quantity of certain sugars, syrups, and molasses (also referred to as
refined sugar) at 22,000 MTRV.
DATES: This notice is applicable on July 17, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Souleymane Diaby, Multilateral Affairs
Division, Trade Policy and Geographic Affairs, Foreign Agricultural
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1070, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-1070; by telephone (202) 720-2916; or
by email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a7f4c8d2cbc2decac6c9c289e3cec6c5dee7d2d4c3c689c0c8d1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9dcef2e8f1f8e4f0fcf3f8b3d9f4fcffe4dde8eef9fcb3faf2eb">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The provisions of paragraph (a)(i) of the
Additional U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the U.S. Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) authorize the Secretary to establish the in-quota
tariff-rate quota (TRQ) amounts (expressed in terms of raw value) for
imports of raw cane sugar and certain sugars, syrups, and molasses that
may be entered under the subheadings of the HTS subject to the lower
tier of duties during each fiscal year. The Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative (USTR) is responsible for the allocation of these
quantities among supplying countries and areas. Section 359(k) of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, requires that at the
beginning of the quota year the Secretary of Agriculture establish the
TRQs for raw cane sugar and refined sugars at the minimum levels
necessary
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to comply with obligations under international trade agreements, with
the exception of specialty sugar.
The Secretary's authority under paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional
U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the HTS and Section 359(k) of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, has been delegated to
the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs (7 CFR
2.26). The Under Secretary has subsequently delegated this authority to
the Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.601).
Notice is hereby given that I have determined, in accordance with
paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the HTS
and section 359(k) of the 1938 Act, that an aggregate quantity of up to
1,117,195 MTRV of raw cane sugar may be entered or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption during FY 2026. This is the minimum amount to
which the United States is committed under the WTO Uruguay Round
Agreements. The conversion factor is 1 metric ton raw value equals
1.10231125 short tons raw value. The Office of the United Trade
Representative will allocate these quantities among supplying countries
and customs areas.
I have further determined that an aggregate quantity of 22,000 MTRV
of sugars, syrups, and molasses (refined sugar) may be entered or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during FY 2026. This quantity
includes the minimum amount to which the United States is committed
under the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements, 22,000 MTRV, of which 20,344
MTRV is established for any sugars, syrups and molasses, and 1,656 MTRV
is reserved for specialty sugar. No additional amount is added to the
specialty sugar TRQ.
The FY 2026 specialty sugar TRQ will be opened on a first-come,
first-served basis on October 1, 2025.
Jason Hafemeister,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-13425 Filed 7-16-25; 8:45 am]
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