FAS to Impose Additional Safeguard Duty on Certain Sugar Products
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service will impose an additional safeguard duty on certain sugars, syrups and molasses that fall under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, it said in a Federal Register notice.
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The special safeguard duty is specifically for "articles containing over 65 percent by dry weight of sugars" per FAS analysis of imports between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, that have exceeded the trigger level of 1,252 metric tons.
"In accordance with U.S. Notes 1 and 2, Subchapter IV, Chapter 99 of the HTS and HTS subheadings 9904.17.39, 9904.17.40, 9904.17.41, 9904.17.42, 9904.17.43, 9904.17.44, 9904.17.45, 9904.17.46, 9904.17.47, and 9904.17.48, additional duties of 11.3 cents per kilogram plus 1.7 percent; 13.3 cents per kilogram plus 3.5 percent; 11.2 cents per kilogram; 10.2 cents per kilogram plus 2.8 percent; 12.4 cents per kilogram plus 2 percent; 14.1 cents per kilogram plus 2.8 percent; 7.9 cents per kilogram plus 2.8%; 10.2 cents per kilogram plus 2.8 percent; 23.5 cents per kilogram plus 2.8 percent; and 9.6 cents per kilogram plus 2.8 percent shall apply to articles containing over 65 percent by dry weight of sugars described in additional U.S. note 2 to chapter 17 imported under HTS subheadings 1701.91.48 and 1702.90.68, 1704.90.68, 1806.10.28 and 1806.10.55, 1806.20.73, 1806.90.49, 1901.20.25 and 1901.20.60, 1901.90.54, 2101.12.48 and 2101.20.48, 2106.90.76, and 2106.90.94, respectively, from the date of publication of this notice through September 30, 2025," the notice said.
The safeguard duty will be imposed April 16 through Sept. 30.
This special safeguard duty does not apply to goods from the following countries, according to the notice: Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, Oman, Korea, Colombia and Panama.