Dominican Republic: Sugar Semi-annual
For Marketing Year 2016/2017 (MY16/17), Post forecasts overall production to be higher than MY MY15/16, at 450,000 MT. During MY 15/16, total sugar production reached 378,871 MT. For MY 16/17, Post forecasts exports of raw cane sugar at 185,000 MT, similar to MY 15/16 and similar to the U.S. tariff-rate quota (TRQ) level of the past years. During MY 16/17, Post forecasts imports of 140,000 MT, slightly less than the 169,000 MT imported during MY 15/16.