The National Farmers' Union's sugar board (NFU Sugar) said it is "extremely disappointed" with the government’s decision to extend the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) for raw cane sugar.

A new threshold of up to 325,000 tonnes of imports per year will be set from January 2026 - a 25pc rise from the existing 260,000 tonnes.

Meanwhile, the UK global tariff (UKGT) rate for refined raw cane sugar above this threshold will remain at £280/tonne.

NFU Sugar - which represents farmers across the East of England supplying beet to British Sugar's four factories at

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