Sugar
Canadian sugar is largely refined from imported raw cane, with some domestic beet production, and it serves industrial and retail buyers on standard grades. As an export into Southeast Asia it competes against much closer origins, so the trade tends to be specification-led or tied to a broader supply relationship.
Specify grain size, colour, moisture and, for industrial buyers, the flow and caking behaviour, which determines handling in bulk systems.
Icing and specialty grades are separate products with their own particle-size and anti-caking specifications, and those additives are worth confirming against destination requirements before shipping, not after.
Humidity is the handling issue that catches buyers importing into tropical markets. Refined sugar cakes and hardens in humid storage, and a product that flows correctly at load can arrive unusable in bulk handling. Specify the packaging barrier against your actual warehouse conditions, not the supplier's default.
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Common questions
- What is the HS code for sugar?
- 1701.99 (Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form) other refined sugar. This was read from Canada Border Services Agency on 2026-09-18. The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonised System; digits beyond that are set by the destination.
Sources
- Customs Tariff (T2026), Chapter 17 · Canada Border Services Agency, retrieved September 18, 2026
Last reviewed: September 1, 2026