China will maintain its low-tariff import quota for sugar at 1.945 million tons in 2016, unchanged from this year, the Commerce Ministry said on Monday.
Seventy percent of the quota is allocated to State-owned trading companies.
Importers without low-tariff quotas must pay a 50 percent tariff. Despite the large duty, out-of-quota imports have surged in recent years because of a large gap between domestic and international sugar prices.
