During Marketing Year 2012/2013 (MY 2013), sugar production reached 556,000 Metric Tons (MT) and Post estimates overall production of 575,000 MT during MY 2013/2014. For Calendar Year (CY) 2013, exports of raw cane sugar totaled 228,000 MT, while imports for the same period totaled an estimated 60,000 MT (final data not yet available). During CY 2014, Post estimates that imports will drop to around 10,000 MT and exports will increase to 246,000 MT. Finally, the Dominican Republic is not expected to fill the U.S. annual sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for MY 2014 due to continued strong exports to the EU and the expected decline in operations at one of the 4 major mills.
