USDA extends sugar import deadline to September 30

The US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service said late Friday that some imported raw sugar can keep coming into the country, suspending a July 1 deadline until September 30 of this year.
Last February, USDA said it would boost the amount of raw sugar it allowed in the country because of tight US market conditions due to hurricanes and other bad weather.
The agency raised the limit on sugar imports by 500,000 short tons, raw value (STRV), because domestic supplies were unable to fill market demand, the agency said. Half of the allowable import increase, 250,000 STRV, was allocated to raw sugar.