THE shipment of thousands of tons of illegal sugar, which has violated several regulationsfrom breaking deadlines to inter-island tradehas created headaches for many officials in the Department of Trade & Industry. Sudar S.A. is one of the officials mentioned in the current debacle. The following is his confirmation on the issue:

Last May, the Customs office impounded 8,800 tons of sugar because it had violated the import date of April 30, 2004. B