Notice2021-19106
Adjustment of Appendices Under the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing Regulation
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Abstract
This notice announces the transfer of amounts for certain dairy articles from the historical license category (Appendix 1) to the lottery (nonhistorical) license category (Appendix 2) pursuant to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulations for the 2021 quota year. In addition, adjustments have been made to the Appendices to reflect changes to United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) country allocations for certain tariff rate quotas (TRQs) and other changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) made by the U.S. Trade Representative in response to the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and the accession of Croatia to the EU, which will go into effect for the 2022 quota year. Appendices 1 and 2 for the EU-27 for Additional U.S. Note 16 to Chapter 4 have also been adjusted to account for a clerical error in last year's Appendices 1 and 2 published amounts. This correction does not increase the overall quantity allotted to the EU-27 and the UK.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 168 (Thursday, September 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49289-49292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19106]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Adjustment of Appendices Under the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import
Licensing Regulation
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the transfer of amounts for certain
dairy articles from the historical license category (Appendix 1) to the
lottery (nonhistorical) license category (Appendix 2) pursuant to the
Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulations for the 2021 quota
year. In addition, adjustments have been made to the Appendices to
reflect changes to United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) country
allocations for certain tariff rate quotas (TRQs) and other changes to
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) made by the
U.S. Trade Representative in response to the withdrawal of the UK from
the EU and the accession of Croatia to the EU, which will go into
effect for the 2022 quota year. Appendices 1 and 2 for the EU-27 for
Additional U.S. Note 16 to Chapter 4 have also been adjusted to account
for a clerical error in last year's Appendices 1 and 2 published
amounts. This correction does not increase the overall quantity
allotted to the EU-27 and the UK.
DATES: September 2, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Abdelsalam El-Farra, (202) 720-9439;
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0b6a696f6e67786a676a66256e67266d6a79796a4b6d6a78257e786f6a256c647d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8aebe8eeefe6f9ebe6ebe7a4efe6a7ecebf8f8ebcaecebf9a4fff9eeeba4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foreign Agricultural Service, under a
delegation of authority from the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign
Agricultural Affairs, administers the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import
Licensing regulation codified at 7 CFR 6.20 through 6.36 that provides
for the issuance of licenses to import certain dairy articles under
TRQs as set forth in the HTSUS. 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 Imports
Program, 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 that whenever a historical
license (Appendix 1) is permanently surrendered, revoked by the
Licensing Authority, or not issued to an applicant pursuant to the
provisions of Sec. 6.23, then the amount of such license will be
transferred to Appendix 2. Section 6.34(b) provides that the cumulative
annual transfers will be published by notice in the Federal Register.
Accordingly, this document sets forth the revised Appendices in the
table below. The quantities for designated licenses (Appendix 3 and
Appendix 4) are also included in the table below for completeness.
In addition, the Appendices have been revised to reflect modified
EU and UK country allocations under certain TRQs in Chapter 4 of the
HTSUS made by the U.S. Trade Representative in response to the
withdrawal of the UK from the EU and to acknowledge the accession of
Croatia to the EU. On July 6, 2021, the U.S. Trade Representative
announced, inter alia, that: (1) The TRQs allocated to the EU under
Additional U.S. Notes 6, 16, 17, and 18 to Chapter 4 will be allocated
between the EU and the UK according to the average percentage of in-
quota imports for the 2013-2015 period; and (2) the UK would have
access to a specific in-quota quantity under these notes. Specifically,
the U.S. Trade Representative announced that, effective with respect to
articles entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after January 1, 2022:
1. Additional U.S. Note 2 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified by:
(a) Inserting ``Croatia,'' into the list of countries in alphabetical
order; and (b) deleting ``the Slovak Republic, Sweden or the United
Kingdom'' and inserting ``the Slovak Republic or Sweden'' in lieu
thereof.
2. With respect to the published in-quota quantity of 96,161
kilograms allocated to the EU 27 for the TRQ in Additional U.S. Note 6
to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS, the UK shall have access to a quantity of
not less than 14,062 kilograms and the EU 27 shall have access to a
quantity of not less than 82,099 kilograms.
3. Additional U.S. Note 16 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified
by: (a) Inserting ``United Kingdom'' into the list of countries in
alphabetical order; (b) inserting a quota quantity of ``2,213,374'' in
the Quantity (kg) column for the United Kingdom; (c) deleting the
quantity ``27,846,224'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27; and
(d)
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``25,632,850'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27 in lieu
thereof.
4. Additional U.S. Note 17 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified
by: (a) Inserting ``United Kingdom'' into the list of countries in
alphabetical order; (b) inserting a quota quantity of ``23,617''' in
the Quantity (kg) column for the United Kingdom; (c) deleting the
quantity ``2,829,000'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27; and
(d) inserting ``2,805,383'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27 in
lieu thereof.
5. Additional U.S. Note 18 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified
by: (a) Inserting ``United Kingdom'' into the list of countries in
alphabetical order; (b) inserting a quota quantity of ``895,948'' in
the Quantity (kg) column for the United Kingdom; (c) deleting the
quantity ``1,31,000'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27; and (d)
inserting ``417,052'' in the Quantity (kg) column for the EU27 in lieu
thereof.
For U.S. TRQs under Additional U.S. Notes 19 to 23 and 25 to
Chapter 4, the UK otherwise will be eligible to export under the in-
quota quantities allocated to ``other countries or areas.'' See
Modification of U.S. Tariff-Rate Quotas and the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (86 FR 35560 (July 6, 2021)).
Accordingly, the Licensing Authority has divided the amounts allocated
to the EU under Additional U.S. Notes 6, 16, 17, and 18 in Appendices
1, 2, 3 and 4, as applicable, between the EU and the UK by directly
applying the percentages used by the U.S. Trade Representative to
allocate the overall TRQs under those notes.
Entities that currently hold EU-27 historical licenses for TRQs
under Additional U.S. Notes 6, 16, 17, and 18 that wish to retain their
EU-27 historical licenses and/or obtain UK historical licenses under
these TRQs for the 2022 TRQ year and that otherwise qualify for carry
over of such EU-27 historical licenses will be instructed to apply to
carry over the EU-27 historical license and/or to obtain a UK
historical license. The quantities of the new EU-27 license and/or UK
license for the 2022 TRQ year that will be issued under these TRQs will
be determined by allocating the original EU-27 license quantity between
the two new licenses applying the same ratio that USTR used to split
the applicable overall TRQ. Any discrepancies in quantities at the
individual license level are due to rounding.
Notice of this action and specific instructions on how to apply for
the 2022 TRQ year for EU-27 and UK historical licenses under these TRQs
are being provided to all current holders of EU-27 historical licenses
for TRQs under Additional U.S. Notes 6, 16, 17, and 18. The notice and
instructions are also posted on USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's
Dairy Import Licensing Program's website at: <a href="https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/dairy-import-licensing-program">https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/dairy-import-licensing-program</a> and also in the Community
Notices section of the Agricultural Trade License Administration System
(ATLAS).
Finally, with regard to Additional U.S. Note 16, Cheese and
Substitutes for Cheese, the quantity in Appendix 1 for EU-27 historical
licenses includes an additional 21,768 kg and the quantity for EU-27
lottery licenses in Appendix 2 includes a reduction of 21,768 kg. This
corrects a clerical error in the previously published quantities for
Appendices 1 and 2. The correction does not change the overall quantity
allotted to the EU-27 or the UK under Additional U.S. Note 16.
Lori Tortora,
Licensing Authority.
Articles Subject to Dairy Import Licenses (Kilograms) \1\
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Designated
Designated licenses
Historical Lottery licenses Sum of licenses (Uruguay
licenses (Appendix 2) \3\ Appendix 1 & 2 (Tokyo round, round, Total \4\
(Appendix 1) \2\ \4\ Appendix 3) Appendix 4)
\4\ \4\
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NON-CHEESE ARTICLES, Notes 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 (Appendix
1 reduction):
BUTTER (NOTE 6, Commodity Code G) (-19,466 kg)...... 4,205,995 2,771,005 6,977,000 .............. .............. 6,977,000
EU-27 \5\....................................... 53,445 28,654 82,099 .............. .............. 82,099
The United Kingdom.............................. 9,154 4,908 14,062 .............. .............. 14,062
New Zealand..................................... 76,503 74,090 150,593 .............. .............. ..............
Other Countries................................. 35,382 38,553 73,935 .............. .............. ..............
Any Country (-19,466 kg)........................ 4,031,511 2,624,800 6,656,311 .............. .............. ..............
DRIED SKIM MILK (NOTE 7, Commodity Code K).......... 0 5,261,000 5,261,000 .............. .............. 5,261,000
Australia....................................... 0 600,076 600,076 .............. .............. ..............
Canada.......................................... 0 219,565 219,565 .............. .............. ..............
Any Country..................................... 0 4,441,359 4,441,359 .............. .............. ..............
DRIED WHOLE MILK (NOTE 8, Commodity Code H)......... 0 3,321,300 3,321,300 .............. .............. 3,321,300
New Zealand..................................... 0 3,175 3,175 .............. .............. ..............
Any Country..................................... 0 3,318,125 3,318,125 .............. .............. ..............
DRIED BUTTERMILK/WHEY (NOTE 12, Commodity Code 0 224,981 224,981 .............. .............. 224,981
M).............................................
Canada.......................................... 0 161,161 161,161 .............. .............. ..............
New Zealand..................................... 0 63,820 63,820 .............. .............. ..............
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES CONTAINING OVER 45 PERCENT OF 0 6,080,500 6,080,500 .............. .............. 6,080,500
BUTTERFAT AND/OR BUTTER OIL (NOTE 14, Commodity
Code SU)...........................................
Any Country..................................... 0 6,080,500 6,080,500 .............. .............. ..............
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TOTAL: NON-CHEESE ARTICLES (-19,466 kg)..... 4,205,995 17,658,786 21,864,781 .............. .............. 21,864,781
CHEESE ARTICLES (Notes 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, ................ ................ .............. .............. .............. ..............
23, 25) (Appendix 1 reduction):
CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE (NOTE 16, 17,021,404 14,448,327 31,469,731 9,661,128 7,496,000 48,626,859
Commodity Code OT (-648,520 kg)....................
Argentina....................................... 0 7,690 7,690 92,310 .............. 100,000
Australia (-522,506 kg)......................... 13,122 528,048 541,170 758,830 1,750,000 3,050,000
Canada (-54,507 kg)............................. 895,655 245,345 1,141,000 .............. .............. 1,141,000
Costa Rica...................................... 0 0 0 .............. 1,550,000 1,550,000
EU-27 (not including Portugal) (-34,573 kg)..... 12,769,952 8,505,615 21,275,567 835,707 3,168,576 25,279,850
Portugal........................................ 65,838 63,471 129,309 223,691 .............. 353,000
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The United Kingdom.............................. 1,118,071 744,709 1,862,780 73,170 277,424 2,213,374
Israel.......................................... 79,696 0 79,696 593,304 .............. 673,000
Iceland......................................... 29,054 264,946 294,000 29,000 .............. 323,000
New Zealand (-18,155 kg)........................ 1,332,845 3,482,627 4,815,472 6,506,528 .............. 11,322,000
Norway.......................................... 122,860 27,140 150,000 .............. .............. 150,000
Switzerland..................................... 512,184 159,228 671,412 548,588 500,000 1,720,000
Uruguay......................................... 0 0 0 .............. 250,000 250,000
Other Countries (-18,779)....................... 82,127 119,508 201,635 .............. .............. 201,635
Any Country..................................... 0 300,000 300,000 .............. .............. 300,000
BLUE-MOLD CHEESE (NOTE 17, Commodity Code B) (-2,300 1,930,826 550,175 2,481,001 .............. 430,000 2,911,001
kg)................................................
Argentina....................................... 2,000 0 2,000 .............. .............. 2,000
EU-27 (-2,300 kg)............................... 1,912,724 545,581 2,458,305 .............. 347,078 2,805,383
The United Kingdom.............................. 16,102 4,593 20,695 .............. 2,922 23,617
Chile........................................... 0 0 0 .............. 80,000 80,000
Other Countries................................. 0 1 1 .............. .............. 1
CHEDDAR CHEESE (NOTE 18, Commodity Code C) (-9,324 2,286,995 1,996,861 4,283,856 519,033 7,620,000 12,422,889
kg)................................................
Australia....................................... 881,894 102,605 984,499 215,501 1,250,000 2,450,000
Chile........................................... ................ 0 0 .............. 220,000 220,000
EU-27........................................... 16,645 66,892 83,537 .............. 333,515 417,052
The United Kingdom.............................. 35,759 143,704 179,463 .............. 716,485 895,948
New Zealand..................................... 1,265,070 1,531,398 2,796,468 303,532 5,100,000 8,200,000
Other Countries (-9,324 kg)..................... 87,627 52,262 139,889 .............. .............. 139,889
Any Country..................................... ................ 100,000 100,000 .............. .............. 100,000
AMERICAN-TYPE CHEESE (NOTE 19, Commodity Code A) (- 1,146,898 2,018,655 3,165,553 357,003 0 3,522,556
4,536 kg)..........................................
Australia....................................... 753,578 127,420 880,998 119,002 .............. 1,000,000
EU-27 (-4,536 kg)............................... 131,539 222,461 354,000 .............. .............. 354,000
New Zealand..................................... 158,725 1,603,274 1,761,999 238,001 .............. 2,000,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 103,056 65,500 168,556 .............. .............. 168,556
EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE (NOTE 20, Commodity Code D) (- 4,270,567 1,335,835 5,606,402 0 1,210,000 6,816,402
10,902 kg).........................................
Argentina....................................... 105,418 19,582 125,000 .............. 110,000 235,000
EU-27 (-10,902 kg).............................. 4,049,341 1,239,659 5,289,000 .............. 1,100,000 6,389,000
Norway.......................................... 111,046 55,954 167,000 .............. .............. 167,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 4,762 20,640 25,402 .............. .............. 25,402
ITALIAN-TYPE CHEESES (NOTE 21, Commodity Code D) (- 5,867,429 1,653,118 7,520,547 795,517 5,165,000 13,481,064
232,929 kg)........................................
Argentina (-157,571 kg)......................... 3,530,236 595,247 4,125,483 367,517 1,890,000 6,383,000
EU-27 (-75,358 kg).............................. 2,337,193 1,044,807 3,382,000 .............. 2,025,000 5,407,000
Romania......................................... 0 0 0 .............. 500,000 500,000
Uruguay......................................... 0 0 0 428,000 750,000 1,178,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 0 13,064 13,064 .............. .............. 13,064
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE (NOTE 22 Commodity Code 4,228,895 2,422,419 6,651,314 823,519 380,000 7,854,833
GR)................................................
EU-27........................................... 2,979,351 2,172,643 5,151,994 393,006 380,000 5,925,000
Switzerland..................................... 1,216,046 203,441 1,419,487 430,513 .............. 1,850,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 33,498 46,335 79,833 .............. .............. 79,833
LOW FAT CHEESE (NOTE 23, Commodity Code LF)......... 1,173,766 3,251,142 4,424,908 1,050,000 0 5,474,908
EU-27........................................... 1,173,766 3,251,141 4,424,907 .............. .............. 4,424,907
Israel.......................................... 0 0 0 50,000 .............. 50,000
New Zealand..................................... 0 0 0 1,000,000 .............. 1,000,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 0 1 1 .............. .............. 1
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE WITH EYE FORMATION (NOTE 12,983,391 9,313,940 22,297,331 9,557,945 2,620,000 34,475,276
25, Commodity Code SW) (-108,457 kg)...............
Argentina....................................... 0 9,115 9,115 70,885 .............. 80,000
Australia....................................... 209,698 0 209,698 290,302 .............. 500,000
Canada.......................................... 0 0 0 70,000 .............. 70,000
EU-27 (-108,457 kg)............................. 9,653,742 6,823,086 16,476,828 4,003,172 2,420,000 22,900,000
Iceland......................................... 0 149,999 149,999 150,001 .............. 300,000
Israel.......................................... 27,000 0 27,000 .............. .............. 27,000
Norway.......................................... 2,285,329 1,369,981 3,655,310 3,227,690 .............. 6,883,000
Switzerland..................................... 759,369 924,736 1,684,105 1,745,895 200,000 3,630,000
Other Countries or Areas \6\.................... 48,253 37,023 85,276 .............. .............. 85,276
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TOTAL: CHEESE ARTICLES...................... 50,910,171 36,990,472 87,900,643 22,764,145 24,921,000 135,585,788
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TOTAL: CHEESE & NON-CHEESE.............. 55,116,166 54,649,258 109,765,424 22,764,145 24,921,000 157,450,569
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\1\ Source of the total TRQs is the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule, Chapter 4, in the corresponding Additional U.S. Notes.
\2\ Reduced from 2020 by total of -1,036,434 KG.
\3\ Increased from 2020 by total of 1,036,434 KG.
\4\ No change.
\5\ The list of countries in Additional U.S. Note 2 to Chapter 4 now includes ``Croatia'' and omits ``the United Kingdom.''
\6\ For Additional U.S. Notes 19 to 23 and 25, the UK will be eligible to export under the in-quota quantities allocated to ``other countries or
areas.''
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[FR Doc. 2021-19106 Filed 9-1-21; 8:45 am]
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