USDA Increases FY 2016 U.S. Sugar Overall Allotment Quantity and Raw Cane Sugar Import Access
date:May 18, 2016
larity of less than 99.2 degrees.

Background:

Sugar program provisions require the Secretary of Agriculture to make adjustments to the OAQ based on quarterly re-estimates such that the OAQ is not less than 85 percent of domestic human consumption for the crop year. Accordingly, USDA today increased the fiscal 2016 OAQ to 10,093,750 (STRV), which is 85 percent of the 12,000,000 STRV estimate for domestic human consumption published in the May 2016 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates

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