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74 FR 156 pgs. 41033-41035 - Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Quota Year

Type: RULEVolume: 74Number: 156Pages: 41033 - 41035
FR document: [FR Doc. E9-19529 Filed 8-13-09; 8:45 am]
Agency: Agriculture Department
Sub Agency: Office of the Secretary
Official PDF Version:  PDF Version

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 § 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.

Accordingly, 7 CFR part 6 is amended as follows:

PART 6-IMPORT QUOTAS AND FEES

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).

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

Article by additional U.S. note number and country of origin Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 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
New Zealand 11,000 52,820
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES CONTAINING OVER 45 PERCENT OF BUTTERFAT AND/OR BUTTER OIL (NOTE 14) 6,080,500
Any Country 6,080,500
TOTAL: NON-CHEESE ARTICLES 5,292,603 16,572,178
CHEESE ARTICLES
CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE (EXCEPT: SOFT 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) 23,018,053 8,451,678 9,661,128 7,496,000
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 UNITED KINGDOM) AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, BLUE-MOLD CHEESE (NOTE 17) 2,285,947 195,054 430,000
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 CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, CHEDDAR CHEESE (NOTE 18) 3,596,515 687,341 519,033 7,620,000
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 CURD AND GRANULAR CHEESE (BUT NOT INCLUDING CHEDDAR) AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING OR PROCESSED FROM SUCH AMERICAN-TYPE CHEESE (NOTE 19) 2,720,253 445,300 357,003
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 SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE (NOTE 20) 5,135,020 471,382 1,210,000
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, (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) 6,411,744 1,108,803 795,517 5,165,000
Argentina 3,915,276 210,207 367,517 1,890,000
EU-25 2,496,468 885,532 2,025,000
Romania 500,000
Uruguay 428,000 750,000
Other Countries 13,064
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE OTHER THAN WITH EYE FORMATION, GRUYERE-PROCESS CHEESE AND CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE CONTAINING, OR PROCESSED FROM, SUCH CHEESES (NOTE 22) 5,341,056 1,310,258 823,519 380,000
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 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) 1,867,826 2,557,092 1,050,000
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 (NOTE 25) 15,999,980 6,297,351 9,557,945 2,620,000
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

[FR Doc. E9-19529 Filed 8-13-09; 8:45 am]

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