[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 124 (Monday, June 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36962-36964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15880]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger Levels
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice of product coverage and trigger levels for safeguard
measures provided for in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement
on Agriculture.
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SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated quantity-based trigger levels
for products which may be subject to additional import duties under the
safeguard provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. This notice
also includes the relevant period applicable for the trigger levels on
each of the listed products.
DATES: June 29, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Safeguard Staff, Import Policies and
Export Reporting Division, Office of Trade Programs, Foreign
Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
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Stop 1020, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-1020; by
telephone (202) 720-0638; or by fax (202) 720-0876.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 of the WTO Agreement on
Agriculture provides that additional import duties may be imposed on
imports of products subject to tariffication as a result of the Uruguay
Round, if certain conditions are met. The agreement permits additional
duties to be charged if the price of an individual shipment of imported
products falls below the average price for similar goods imported
during the years 1986-88 by a specified percentage. It also permits
additional duties to be imposed if the volume of imports of an article
exceeds the average of the most recent 3 years for which data are
available by 5, 10, or 25 percent, depending on the article. These
additional duties may not be imposed on quantities for which minimum or
current access commitments were made during the Uruguay Round
negotiations, and only one type of safeguard, price or quantity, may be
applied at any given time to an article.
Section 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act requires that the
President cause to be published in the Federal Register information
regarding the price and quantity safeguards, including the quantity
trigger levels, which must be updated annually based upon import levels
during the most recent 3 years. The President delegated this duty to
the Secretary of Agriculture in Presidential Proclamation No. 6763,
dated December 23, 1994, 60 FR 1005 (Jan. 4, 1995). The Secretary of
Agriculture further delegated this duty, which lies with the
Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)).
The Annex to this notice contains the updated quantity trigger levels.
Additional information on the products subject to safeguards and
the additional duties which may apply can be found in subchapter IV of
Chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(2014) and in the Secretary of Agriculture's Notice of Uruguay Round
Agricultural Safeguard Trigger Levels, published in the Federal
Register at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
Notice: As provided in Section 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements
Act, consistent with Article 5 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, the
safeguard quantity trigger levels previously notified are superceded by
the levels indicated in the Annex to this notice. The definitions of
these products were provided in the Notice of Safeguard Action
published in the Federal Register, at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
Issued at Washington, DC, this 4th day of June 2015.
Philip C. Karsting,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
ANNEX
Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger
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Product Trigger level Period
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Beef.......................... 276,008 mt....... January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Mutton........................ 3,233 mt......... January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Cream......................... 12,129 liters.... January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk.. 1,097,885 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Nonfat Dry Milk............... 524,659 kilograms January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Dried Whole Milk.............. 3,293,081 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Dried Cream................... 662 kilograms.... January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Dried Whey/Buttermilk......... 34,560 kilograms. January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Butter........................ 9,414,976 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Butter Oil and Butter 5,840,777 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Substitutes. kilograms.
Dairy Mixtures................ 14,384,611 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Blue Cheese................... 4,779,080 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Cheddar Cheese................ 9,768,173 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
American-Type Cheese.......... 14,668 kilograms. January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Edam/Gouda Cheese............. 7,700,542 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Italian-Type Cheese........... 18,291,760 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Swiss Cheese with Eye 26,807,720 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Formation. kilograms.
Gruyere Process Cheese........ 3,551,763 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Lowfat Cheese................. 149,910 kilograms January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
NSPF Cheese................... 50,415,571 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Peanuts....................... 20,493 mt........ April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015.
19,037 mt........ April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016.
Peanut Butter/Paste........... 3,527 mt......... January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Raw Cane Sugar................ 599,416 mt....... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
676,944 mt....... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Refined Sugar and Syrups...... 198,613 mt....... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
177,579 mt....... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Blended Syrups................ 60 mt............ October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
87 mt............ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Articles Over 65% Sugar....... 269 mt........... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
385 mt........... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Articles Over 10% Sugar....... 15,471 mt........ October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
20,158 mt........ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Sweetened Cocoa Powder........ 84 mt............ October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
86 mt............ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Chocolate Crumb............... 11,646,383 January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
kilograms.
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb........ 478,061 kilograms January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Infant Formula Containing 210,818 kilograms January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Oligosaccharides.
Mixes and Doughs.............. 170 mt........... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
230 mt........... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Mixed Condiments and 653 mt........... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
Seasonings.
961 mt........... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Ice Cream..................... 2,552,994 liters. January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
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Animal Feed Containing Milk... 53,195 kilograms. January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Short Staple Cotton........... 2,899,397 September 20, 2014 to September 19, 2015.
kilograms.
2,330,949 September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
kilograms.
Harsh or Rough Cotton......... 0 kilograms...... August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015.
0 kilograms...... August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
Medium Staple Cotton.......... 57,587 kilograms. August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015.
48,783 kilograms. August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
Extra Long Staple Cotton...... 860,694 kilograms August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015.
1,505,611 August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
kilograms.
Cotton Waste.................. 443,246 kilograms September 20, 2014 to September 19, 2015.
793,048 kilograms September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
Cotton, Processed, Not Spun... 4,035 kilograms.. September 20, 2014 to September 19, 2015.
2,058 kilograms.. September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
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