**Policy Summary:**
This Public Notice, issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on January 3, 2024, allocates a quantity of 8606 Metric Tonnes Raw Value (MTRV) of raw cane sugar for export to the United States of America (USA) under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) scheme for the US fiscal year 2024 (October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024). This allocation is made in accordance with Paragraph 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023. Export of sugar (HS Code 17010000) to the USA under TRQ is permitted without restrictions, subject to existing notifications. The Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Mumbai, will issue Certificates of Origin for preferential export of sugar to the USA, based on recommendations from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA). APEDA, New Delhi, will serve as the implementing agency for the operation of this quota. Reporting requirements as per Notification No. 320152020 dated 20.04.2015 and Notification No. 20 dated 07.09.2015 must be followed. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Director General of Foreign Trade at dgft[at]nic.in. The official file number for this notice is F. No. 01/91/180/879/AM08/EC/Vol. VIII/E-20749.
Key Entities Referenced
USA: United States of America; the destination for the export of raw cane sugar under the TRQ scheme.
Foreign Trade Policy, 2023: The prevailing foreign trade policy under which the Director General of Foreign Trade exercises powers related to allocation of export quotas.
Director General of Foreign Trade: The authority responsible for allocating the export quantity of raw cane sugar to the USA.
TRQ scheme: Tariff Rate Quota scheme under which the export of raw cane sugar to the USA is being conducted.
Mumbai, Maharashtra: City in India where the Additional Director General of Foreign Trade issues the Certificate of Origin.
APEDA: Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, the agency responsible for recommendation regarding entity and quantity for Certificate of Origin and operating the quota for export of TRQ items to the USA. It is located in New Delhi.
New Delhi, Delhi: Location of APEDA, the implementing agency for export of TRQ items to USA
raw cane sugar: The commodity being exported to the USA under the TRQ scheme, with a specified quantity of 8606 MTRV.
(To be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-I Section-I)
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Vanijya Bhawan
Public Notice No. 36/2023
New Delhi, the 03 January, 2024
Subject: Allocation of 8606 MTRV of raw cane sugar to USA under TRQ scheme for
US fiscal year 2024.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraphs 2.04 of the Foreign Trade
Policy, 2023, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby allocates quantity of 8606 MTRV
for export of raw cane sugar to USA under TRQ scheme for US fiscal year 2024.
Di As per Notification No. 3/2015-20 dated 20.04.2015, export of sugar (HS Code
17010000) to USA and EU under TRQ is ‘Free’ subject to the conditions notified in the
‘Nature of Restrictions’ in the above notification.
3. Certificate of Origin, if required, for preferential export of sugar to USA shall be
issued by Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Mumbai on recommendation of
APEDA regarding entity and quantity for which eligible. Other certification requirement, if
any, prescribed specifically for export of sugar to USA would continue to be followed.
4. The quota will be operated by Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority (APEDA), New Delhi as the implementing agency for export of
TRQ items to USA.
5. The reporting requirement as notified vide Notification No. 3/2015-2020 dated
20.04.2015 read with Notification No. 20 dated 07.09.2015 would be followed.
6. Effect of this Public Notice:
The quantity of 8606 MTRV raw cane sugar to be exported to USA under TRQ
scheme from 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2024 has been notified.
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(Santosh Kumar Sarangi)
Director General of Foreign Trade
Ex-officio Additional Secretary. Government of India
E-mail: dgft@nic.in
(Issued from F. No. 01/91/180/879/AM08/EC/Vol. VIII/E-20749)