In Pacific trade deal, Australia gets bigger allocation of sugar to U.S.

Published online: Oct 05, 2015 News
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ATLANTA—Australia will be allowed to export an additional 65,000 tonnes of sugar per year to the Unites States under the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal agreed on Monday, an Australian official familiar with the talks said.

The country could send some 400,000 tonnes of sugar to the United States every year by 2019 in best case scenario, the official said.