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I'm using a new form of fertilizer. I'm cutting my fertilizer rates. I'm waiting until spring to decide. Import restrictions are intended to meet U. USDA establishes the annual quota volumes for each federal fiscal year beginning October 1 and the U. Trade Representative allocates the TRQs among countries. Sugar and related products paying a higher, over-quota tariff may enter the country in unlimited quantities. More information about U. Skip to main content. Sugar Import Program. USDA also administers three re-export programs involving sugar.
The Refined Sugar Re-Export Program is designed to facilitate use of domestic refining capacity to export refined sugar into the world market. The program establishes a license against which a refiner can: export domestically produced refined sugar and later import low-duty raw cane sugar; import low-duty raw cane sugar for refining and distribution to licensed U.
The current loan rates for raw cane and beet sugar are set in the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill allows processors to obtain loans for in-process sugar and syrups at 80 percent of the loan rate. Sugar sold in the United States for domestic human consumption by domestic sugar beet and sugarcane processors is subject to marketing allotments that are designed to limit domestic supplies.
An overall allotment quantity OAQ is established at not less than 85 percent of estimated deliveries for domestic human consumption for the marketing year October through September. The OAQ is divided between refined beet sugar For cane sugar, Hawaii is allotted , short tons, raw value STRV , and the allocations for the mainland cane-sugar-producing States Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are assigned based on the States' and processors' production histories.
USDA has authority to reallocate these allocations during the year and does so for Hawaii, which stopped producing sugar in Beet sugar processors are assigned allotments based on their sugar production histories. The program sets out allocation conditions for new entrants and for the effect of the sale of factories between processors. The program provides for several contingencies that could require reassignment of allotments during the crop year.
If a cane processor cannot market its allocation, it is reassigned to the other processors within the same State, taking into account their ability to make up the deficit and also the interests of producers served by the processors. If the deficit cannot be eliminated by this step, the remainder is allocated to the other cane-producing States, and then to the processors in those States.
If CCC inventories are insufficient to cover the deficit, then the deficit is assigned to imports. The procedure for a beet-sugar-processor deficit is similar, except there is one less step since there are no State-level allocations. There is no provision for cane sugar OAQ deficits to be reassigned to beet sugar processors or for beet sugar OAQ deficits to be reassigned to cane sugar processors. The program provides that sugar forfeited to the CCC counts against marketing allotments made in the year in which the loan to the processor was made.
This clarification reinforces that sugar in excess of a processor's allotment at the end of the marketing year cannot be forfeited. Other marketings that count against allotments include a sale of sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program FFP ; export of sugar from the U.
Customs Territory that receives credit under the refined sugar re-export program; and for any integrated cane processor and refiner, the movement of raw cane sugar into the refining process. The Feedstock Flexibility Program operates to avoid sugar loan forfeitures to the CCC by requiring the diversion of sugar from food use to ethanol production. Prior to each September 1, the Secretary of Agriculture Secretary must announce the amount of sugar if any for the CCC to purchase and make available for sale to ethanol producers.
Raw cane sugar, refined beet sugar, and in-process beet sugars are eligible for purchase. Such sugar can be purchased from any marketer located in the United States. Sugar purchased from a sugarcane or sugar beet processor is counted against that processor's marketing allotment. The program provides for specific ways to dispose of sugar owned by the CCC without increasing future forfeiture risk. The program includes the payment-in-kind PIK authority to transfer ownership of CCC sugar to processors in exchange for reductions in production through reduced sugar crop planting.
Under PIK, if sugar beet or sugarcane processors accept CCC inventory in return for a reduction in production of sugar beets or sugarcane already planted, the resulting crop cannot be used for commercial use other bioenergy feedstock.
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