Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
Federal Register: August 14, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 156)
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary 7 CFR Part 6
Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota
Licensing Regulation for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: This document sets forth the revised appendices to the Dairy
Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2009 quota year reflecting the cumulative annual transfers from Appendix 1 to Appendix 2 for certain dairy product import licenses permanently surrendered by licensees or revoked by the Licensing Authority.
DATES: Effective Date: August 14, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jorge Martinez, Dairy Import Licensing
Program, Import Policies and Export Reporting Division, STOP 1021, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington,
DC 20250-1021 or telephone at (202) 720-9439 or e-mail at jorge.martinez@fas.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), under a delegation of authority from the Secretary of Agriculture, administers the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation codified at 7 CFR 6.20-6.37 that provides for the issuance of licenses to import certain dairy articles under tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) as set forth in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. These dairy articles may only be entered into the United States at the low- tier tariff by or for the account of a person or firm to whom such licenses have been issued and only in accordance with the terms and conditions of the regulation.
Licenses are issued on a calendar year basis, and each license authorizes the license holder to import a specified quantity and type of dairy article from a specified country of origin. The Import
Policies and Export Reporting Division, Foreign Agricultural Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, issues these licenses and, in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, monitors their use.
The regulation at 7 CFR 6.34(a) states: ``Whenever a historical license (Appendix 1) is not issued to an applicant pursuant to the provisions of Sec. 6.23, is permanently surrendered or is revoked by the Licensing Authority, the amount of such license will be transferred to Appendix 2.'' Section 6.34(b) provides that the cumulative annual transfers will be published in the Federal Register. Accordingly, this document sets forth the revised Appendices for the 2009 tariff-rate quota year.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 6
Agricultural commodities, Cheese, Dairy products, Imports,
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Issued at Washington, DC, the 13th day of July 2009.
Ronald Lord,
Licensing Authority. 0
Accordingly, 7 CFR part 6 is amended as follows:
PART 6--IMPORT QUOTAS AND FEES 0 1. The authority citation for Part 6, Subpart--Dairy Tariff-Rate Import
Quota Licensing continues to read as follows:
Authority: Additional U.S. Notes 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 16-23 and 25 to Chapter 4 and General Note 15 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202), Public Law 97-258, 96 Stat. 1051, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9701), and secs. 103 and 404, Public Law 103-465, 108 Stat. 4819 (19 U.S.C. 3513 and 3601). 0 2. Appendices 1, 2 and 3 to Subpart--Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota
Licensing are revised to read as follows:
Appendices 1, 2 and 3 to Subpart--Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota
Licensing
Articles Subject to: Appendix 1, Historical Licenses; Appendix 2, Nonhistorical Licenses; and Appendix 3,
Designated Importer Licenses for Quota Year 2009
Quantities in kilograms
Appendix 3
Article by additional U.S. note number and
Appendix 1
Appendix 2 ------------------------------- country of origin
Tokyo round
Uruguay round
NON-CHEESE ARTICLES
BUTTER (NOTE 6).................................
5,278,428
1,698,572 .............. ..............
EU-25.......................................
75,459
20,702 .............. ..............
New Zealand.................................
111,671
38,922 .............. ..............
Other Countries.............................
52,986
20,949 .............. ..............
Any Country.................................
5,038,312
1,617,999 .............. ..............
DRIED SKIM MILK (NOTE 7)........................ ..............
5,261,000 .............. ..............
Australia................................... ..............
600,076 .............. ..............
Canada...................................... ..............
219,565 .............. ..............
Any Country................................. ..............
4,441,359 .............. ..............
DRIED WHOLE MILK (NOTE 8).......................
3,175
3,318,125 .............. ..............
New Zealand.................................
3,175 .............. .............. ..............
Any Country................................. ..............
3,318,125 .............. ..............
DRIED BUTTERMILK/WHEY (NOTE 12).................
11,000
213,981 .............. ..............
Canada...................................... ..............
161,161 .............. ..............
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New Zealand.................................
11,000
52,820 .............. ..............
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES CONTAINING OVER 45 PERCENT OF ..............
6,080,500 .............. ..............
BUTTERFAT AND/OR BUTTER OIL (NOTE 14)..........
Any Country................................. ..............
6,080,500 .............. ..............
TOTAL: NON-CHEESE ARTICLES..............
5,292,603
16,572,178 .............. ..............
CHEESE ARTICLES
CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE (EXCEPT: SOFT
23,018,053
8,451,678
9,661,128
7,496,000
RIPENED COW'S MILK CHEESE; CHEESE NOT
CONTAINING COW'S MILK; CHEESE (EXCEPT COTTAGE
CHEESE) CONTAINING 0.5 PERCENT OR LESS BY
WEIGHT OF BUTTERFAT; AND, ARTICLES WITHIN THE
SCOPE OF OTHER IMPORT QUOTAS PROVIDED FOR IN
THIS SUBCHAPTER) (NOTE 16).....................
Argentina...................................
7,690 ..............
92,310 ..............
Australia...................................
535,628
5,542
758,830
1,750,000
Canada......................................
1,013,777
127,223 .............. ..............
Costa Rica.................................. .............. .............. ..............
1,550,000
EU-25.......................................
15,878,329
7,389,327
1,132,568
3,446,000
Of which Portugal is....................
65,838
63,471
223,691 ..............
Israel......................................
79,696 ..............
593,304 ..............
Iceland.....................................
294,000 ..............
29,000 ..............
New Zealand.................................
4,389,093
426,379
6,506,528 ..............
Norway......................................
124,982
25,018 .............. ..............
Switzerland.................................
593,952
77,460
548,588
500,000
Uruguay..................................... .............. .............. ..............
250,000
Other Countries.............................
100,906
100,729 .............. ..............
Any Country................................. ..............
300,000 .............. ..............
BLUE-MOLD CHEESE (EXCEPT STILTON PRODUCED IN THE
2,285,947
195,054 ..............
430,000
UNITED KINGDOM) AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR
CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, BLUE-MOLD
CHEESE (NOTE 17)...............................
Argentina...................................
2,000 .............. .............. ..............
EU-25.......................................
2,283,946
195,054 ..............
350,000
Chile....................................... .............. .............. ..............
80,000
Other Countries.............................
1 .............. .............. ..............
CHEDDAR CHEESE, AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR
3,596,515
687,341
519,033
7,620,000
CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, CHEDDAR
CHEESE (NOTE 18)...............................
Australia...................................
916,205
68,294
215,501
1,250,000
Chile....................................... .............. .............. ..............
220,000
EU-25.......................................
52,404
210,596 ..............
1,050,000
New Zealand.................................
2,525,360
271,108
303,532
5,100,000
Other Countries.............................
102,546
37,343 .............. ..............
Any Country................................. ..............
100,000 .............. ..............
AMERICAN-TYPE CHEESE, INCLUDING COLBY, WASHED
2,720,253
445,300
357,003 ..............
CURD AND GRANULAR CHEESE (BUT NOT INCLUDING
CHEDDAR) AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE
CONTAINING OR PROCESSED FROM SUCH AMERICAN-TYPE
CHEESE (NOTE 19)...............................
Australia...................................
780,380
100,618
119,002 ..............
EU-25.......................................
145,148
208,852 .............. ..............
New Zealand.................................
1,644,084
117,915
238,001 ..............
Other Countries.............................
150,641
17,915 .............. ..............
EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE, AND CHEESE AND
5,135,020
471,382 ..............
1,210,000
SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED
FROM, EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE (NOTE 20)..........
Argentina...................................
110,495
14,505 ..............
110,000
EU-25.......................................
4,905,445
383,555 ..............
1,100,000
Norway......................................
114,318
52,682 .............. ..............
Other Countries.............................
4,762
20,640 .............. ..............
ITALIAN-TYPE CHEESES, MADE FROM COW'S MILK,
6,411,744
1,108,803
795,517
5,165,000
(ROMANO MADE FROM COW'S MILK, REGGIANO,
PARMESAN, PROVOLONE, PROVOLETTI, SBRINZ, AND
GOYA--NOT IN ORIGINAL LOAVES) AND CHEESE AND
SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED
FROM, SUCH ITALIAN-TYPE CHEESES, WHETHER OR NOT
IN ORIGINAL LOAVES (NOTE 21)...................
Argentina...................................
3,915,276
210,207
367,517
1,890,000
EU-25.......................................
2,496,468
885,532 ..............
2,025,000
Romania..................................... .............. .............. ..............
500,000
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Uruguay..................................... .............. ..............
428,000
750,000
Other Countries............................. ..............
13,064 .............. ..............
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE OTHER THAN WITH EYE
5,341,056
1,310,258
823,519
380,000
FORMATION, GRUYERE-PROCESS CHEESE AND CHEESE
AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR
PROCESSED FROM, SUCH CHEESES (NOTE 22).........
EU-25.......................................
4,071,866
1,080,128
393,006
380,000
Switzerland.................................
1,235,692
183,795
430,513 ..............
Other Countries.............................
33,498
46,335 .............. ..............
CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE, CONTAINING
1,867,826
2,557,092
1,050,000 .............. 0.5 PERCENT OR LESS BY WEIGHT OF BUTTERFAT
(EXCEPT ARTICLES WITHIN THE SCOPE OF OTHER
TARIFF-RATE QUOTAS PROVIDED FOR IN THIS
SUBCHAPTER), AND MARGARINE CHEESE (NOTE 23)....
EU-25.......................................
1,867,825
2,557,092 .............. ..............
Israel...................................... .............. ..............
50,000 ..............
New Zealand................................. .............. ..............
1,000,000 ..............
Other Countries.............................
1 .............. .............. ..............
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE WITH EYE FORMATION
15,999,980
6,297,351
9,557,945
2,620,000
(NOTE 25)......................................
Argentina................................... ..............
9,115
70,885 ..............
Australia...................................
209,698 ..............
290,302 ..............
Canada...................................... .............. ..............
70,000 ..............
EU-25.......................................
11,188,057
5,288,771
4,003,172
2,420,000
Iceland.....................................
149,999 ..............
150,001 ..............
Israel......................................
27,000 .............. .............. ..............
Norway......................................
3,187,264
468,046
3,227,690 ..............
Switzerland.................................
1,178,377
505,728
1,745,895
200,000
Other Countries.............................
59,585
25,691 .............. ..............
TOTAL: CHEESE ARTICLES..................
66,376,394
21,524,259
22,764,145
24,921,000
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