By Susan Reidy
World Grain. Com
For the first time since it was enacted in 2012, US exporters did not fill the rice tariff-rate quota with Colombia.
Rice exports to Colombia declined to just $5 million through September, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The significantly lower exports are a result of a larger Colombian crop and lower domestic prices as well as increased competition from South American exporters.