date:May 18, 2016
signed from domestic cane sugar allocations to raw cane sugar imports.
In addition, USDA reassigned beet allocations from certain U.S. beet sugar processors that lacked adequate refined beet sugar supply to other beet processors that needed more allocation to market their supplies. After this action, there was no surplus beet allotment to reassign to raw cane sugar imports.
USDA is closely monitoring sugar production, stocks, consumption, imports, and all sugar market and program variables on