Ten countries hold the smallest US raw cane sugar allocation, 7,258 tonnes each. Two are CARICOM members, Haiti and St Kitts and Nevis. When Washington distributed spare tonnage inside that quota on 23 September 2026, 28 countries got a 6.30 per cent uplift and the floor got none.
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Senator Ron Wyden wrote to US Customs and Border Protection on 20 August 2026 asking why it let a Dominican sugar producer resume imports after a forced-labour ban. The passage his committee published sets that against the Section 301 tariffs. Guyana pays those at the higher band.
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The US allocated 1,117,195 tonnes of raw cane sugar quota for the fiscal year just ended. The Dominican Republic received almost three times what the seven CARICOM members with allocations received between them. Its largest producer's forced-labour import ban was lifted in March 2025.
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Revenue from petroleum products fell 72.7 per cent over the year to October 2026, in a month Haiti's customs administration calls its highest October on record at 11.5 billion gourdes. The adopted 2026-2027 budget targets 129 billion gourdes from non-oil customs, against 115.6 billion.
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Belize's domestic exports rose 31.7 per cent in September 2026 and imports fell 3.8 per cent, narrowing the monthly merchandise gap by $21.1 million. In the same month the Consumer Confidence Index fell to 38.4, its lowest since April 2024, with durable goods sentiment down 26.5 per cent.
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Michael Munroe, Director of Guyana's Local Content Secretariat, told a suppliers' forum in Georgetown on 4 November that the Secretariat intends to ask the oil companies what work might be set aside for small and women-owned businesses. The Act reserves 40 services and names neither.
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The International Trade Centre and Afreximbank launched a report in Antigua on 3 November 2026 cutting their projection for Africa-Caribbean trade by a fifth against the figure their own heads published sixteen months earlier. Interregional trade stands at US$729 million.
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