India relaxed rules on sugar exports on Wednesday, allowing mills to sell abroad until the end of the current season in a move that could further drag down benchmark sugar prices. In the measures announced on Wednesday, the government also said that millers that export sugar this season would be allowed duty-free imports of raw sugar for the following two seasons through September 2021. India is likely to produce a record 29.5 million tonnes of sugar in the 2017/18 season ending on 30 September, up 45% from the previous year.