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The Philippines is set to export 25,300 metric tons (MT) of raw sugar from Negros Occidental to the United States
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The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) said this aims to fulfill the country’s US sugar quota allocation as provided in Sugar Order No. 3
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This voluntary US export will help meet obligations under the significantly reduced US Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota World Trade Allocation
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The raw sugar is manually being loaded onto a cargo vessel docked at the Bredco Port in Bacolod
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If weather permits, it will take 15 days to load the shipment, with an estimated 1,500 MT being loaded daily, and an additional 30 days for the cargo to reach the US
The Philippines is set to export 25,300 metric tons (MT) of raw sugar from Negros Occidental to the United States.
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) said this aims to fulfill the country’s US sugar quota allocation for the year and to avail of allocation for future import programs.
Last month, the SRA approved the shipment as provided in Sugar Order No. 3.
“The intention of this voluntary US export of 25,300 MT of locally produced raw sugar is to allow the Philippines to fulfill – after non-compliance of more than three years – its obligations under the significantly reduced US Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota World Trade Allocation,” according to Sugar Order 3 issued by SRA.
The raw sugar has been manually being loaded onto a cargo vessel docked at the Bredco Port in Bacolod since August 17. SRA administrator Pablo Luis Azcona monitored the sugar exportation bound for the US.
Azcona said if weather permits, it will take 15 days to load the shipment, with an estimated 1,500 MT being loaded daily, and an additional 30 days for the cargo to reach the US.
He also thanked Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez for lifting the truck ban for sugar loaded trucks en route to the port to hasten the loading of US-bound sugar.
