---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2493"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2493"
heading: "Sugar quota"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2493"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter VII — Tariff Treatment of Products of, and Other Sanctions Against, Uncooperative Major Drug Producing or Drug-Transit Countries"
---

# §2493. Sugar quota


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President may not allocate any limitation imposed on the quantity of sugar to any [country](/usc/19/2467.md?p=2) which has a Government involved in the trade of illicit narcotics or is failing to cooperate with the [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8) in narcotics enforcement activities as defined in [section 2492(b) of this title](/usc/19/2492.md?p=b) as determined by the President.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title VIII, § 803, as added Pub. L. 99–570, title IX, § 9001, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–165.)