A total of 75,000 tons of sugar will be brought to the country to deal with the decline in its productionannounced yesterday the Minister of Agriculture, Limber Cruz, corroborating the information from the Dominican Sugar Institute (Inazucar) who had secured the importation of a tariff quota to satisfy the demand between June and November of this year 2023.
According to the official, the decrease in the sugar benefit of the millscaused by the intense period of seasonal drought that the nation has gone through since last February, has been what has caused the need to supply the local market on a provisional basis.
In response to this situation, after having met the sectors involved, from the mills to the merchants, it was determined under the regulations offered by Decree 553-22, on the Regulation of Imports of Tariff Quotas of List XXIII of the Republic Dominican Republic before the World Trade Organization (WTO), which 75,000 tons of sugar will be brought from Brazil, Honduras and Guatemala.
“We brought together the producers, mills and merchants, and already we are going to mitigate that with some 75,000 tons that we are going to bring so that consumers maintain themselves and can continue buying sugar,” Cruz said on behalf of the board, when questioned about this situation during the launch of the “Huertos Escolares” program, together with the Ministry of Education, at the Unión Panamericana High School, in the National District.
He indicated that, because an island subjected to uncontrollable weather conditionsproductions will always be under threat, but on occasions they have anticipated catastrophic events.