On April 9, the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) released the following report on the Dominican Republic, which states that the Dominican Republic’s sugar production has recovered “from the drought that affected the country in the last year…as a return to normal rainfall patterns continue to increase yields … The total amount of exports is expected to fill the U.S. annual sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) due to premium prices paid in the U.S. market.”