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Sugar Quotas Act (Cap. 64:02).

Country/Territory
Trinidad and Tobago
Document type
Legislation
Date
1937 (2011)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Ministry of Legal Affairs.
Long title
An Act to regulate the manufacture of sugar in Trinidad and Tobago, the disposal of such sugar, the allocation to local manufacturers of quotas for exportation and for sale for local consumption and for other purposes connected therewith.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Agricultural development Agricultural commodities Sugar Internal trade International trade Authorization/permit
Geographical area
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States
Abstract

This Act empowers the Minister to fix, by Order, quotas for the manufacture and disposal of sugar which each sugar manufacturer in Trinidad and Tobago shall be permitted: (a) to export; (b) to sell or deliver for consumption within Trinidad and Tobago, during any quota period specified in the Order, and to prescribe the conditions under which the permission shall be granted. No sugar manufacturer shall be required to accept any additional export quota or part thereof that may be allotted to him or her. The Act also determines that no sugar manufacturer shall manufacture and hold in stock at any time a quantity of sugar exceeding the quota allotted to the sugar manufacturer plus 25 percent of the quota.

Full text
English
Website
rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt