Preferential export allocation: raw cane sugar designated for USA subject to APEDA procedures and sole-agency export authorization. A portion of the 1997-98 free sale raw cane sugar quota is allocated for preferential export to the United States for 1998-99 and placed at the disposal of the export development authority to issue export authorisations under specified procedures. A designated export corporation is the sole agency authorised to export this allocated sugar to the United States, and such exports are conditional on prescribed export documentation, including mandatory pre-shipment certification by the export inspection body.