Tag: Sugar

  • Sugar Quota Fix

    USTR allocates the last 55,993 tonnes of the fiscal 2027 raw cane sugar quota across 28 suppliers a week before the October 1 opening, while growers press for Section 301 action against an over-quota tariff that has not moved since 2000. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2026 – The Office of the United States Trade Representative completed…

  • SA Sugar Wall

    South Africa has raised its sugar import duty by roughly 44 percent after lifting the dollar-based reference price to $785 per ton, erecting a higher tariff wall around the entire Southern African Customs Union in a bid to halt an import surge that has grown more than seventy-fold in four years. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 1: Importers…

  • Sugar Rush TRQ

    India’s first duty-free sugar import window in nearly a decade is already being rewritten on the fly, as tumbling domestic prices threaten to leave half the quota unused. NEW DELHI, August 25, 2026 Five days after New Delhi threw open its first duty-free sugar import window since the 2017-18 season, the program is simultaneously working…

  • Sugar Duty Cut

    India throws open a rare duty-free window for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar imports, suspending a 100 percent tariff wall to tame record domestic prices before the festival season. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India, the world’s largest consumer of sugar and one of its most protected sugar markets, has cracked open its tariff…