Notice2025-23603
WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger Levels
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Published
December 22, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentForeign Agricultural Service
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59789-59790]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23603]
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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: This notice is applicable on December 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Multilateral Affairs Division, Trade Policy and Geographic
Affairs, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Stop 1070, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-1070.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USDA Sugar Import Program, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b4d2d5c799c6d9d699c7c1d3d5c6c79ac7c1d3d5c6c7f4c1c7d0d59ad3dbc2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4b2d2a386639262966383e2c2a393865383e2c2a39380b3e382f2a652c243d">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 when the volume of imports of that product exceeds
the sum of (1) a base trigger level multiplied by the average of the
last three years of available import data and (2) the change in yearly
consumption in the most recent year for which data are available
(provided that the final trigger level is not less than 105 percent of
the three-year import average). The base trigger level is set at 105,
110, or 125 percent of the three-year import average, depending on the
percentage of domestic consumption that is represented by imports.
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 1007 (Jan. 4, 1995). The Secretary of
Agriculture further delegated this duty, which lies with the
Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.601(a)(42)).
The Annex to this notice contains the updated quantity trigger levels,
consistent with the provisions of Article 5.
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
(2024) 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 superseded 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).
Daniel B. Whitley,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
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2025 Quantity-based safeguard triggers
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Trigger level Unit Period
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Beef.......................................... 464,032 MT Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Mutton........................................ 4,905 MT Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Cream......................................... 10,285,515 Liters Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk.................. 6,907,453 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Nonfat Dry Milk............................... 3,202,067 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Dried Whole Milk.............................. 4,886,578 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Dried Cream................................... 39,670 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Dried Whey/Buttermilk......................... 344,777 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Butter \1\.................................... 132,434,067 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Butteroil..................................... 27,829,433 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Chocolate Crumb............................... 14,522,448 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb........................ 1,364,297 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Animal Feed Containing Milk................... 211,900 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Ice Cream..................................... 18,640,174 Liters Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Dairy Mixtures................................ 31,747,336 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Infant Formula Containing Oligosaccharides.... 22,341,531 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Blue Cheese................................... 3,620,925 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Cheddar Cheese................................ 14,245,546 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
American-Type Cheese.......................... 88,740 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Edam/Gouda Cheese............................. 11,481,510 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Italian-Type Cheese........................... 26,878,158 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Swiss or Emmenthaler Cheese................... 20,007,112 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Gruyere Process Cheese........................ 4,198,233 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Cheese and Substitutes for Cheese............. 49,232,245 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Lowfat Cheese................................. 84,369 Kilograms Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Peanut Butter/Paste........................... 4,094 MT Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025.
Peanuts \1\................................... 9514 MT April 1, 2024-Mar 31, 2025.
12,631 MT April 1, 2025-Mar 31, 2026.
Raw Cane Sugar \1\............................ 754,409 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
1,019,296 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Refined Sugars and Syrups \1\................. 312,628 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
266,995 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Articles over 65% Sugar....................... 1,252 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
1,894 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Articles over 10% Sugar....................... 25,719 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
32,542 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Blended Syrups................................ 758 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
1,158 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Sweetened Cocoa Powder........................ 578 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
762 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Mixes and Doughs.............................. 3,943 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
896 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Mixed Condiments and Seasonings............... 786 MT Oct 1, 2024-Sep 30, 2025.
684 MT Oct 1, 2025-Sep 30, 2026.
Short Staple Cotton \2\....................... 9,964 Kilograms Sep 20, 2024-Sep 19, 2025.
2,794 Kilograms Sep 20, 2025-Sep 19, 2026.
Harsh or Rough Cotton......................... 6 Kilograms Aug 1, 2024-July 31, 2025.
17 Kilograms Aug 1, 2025-July 31, 2026.
Extra Long Staple Cotton...................... 621,260 Kilograms Aug 1, 2024-July 31, 2025.
475,007 Kilograms Aug 1, 2025-July 31, 2026.
Medium Staple Cotton.......................... 741 Kilograms Aug 1, 2024-July 31, 2025.
86,407 Kilograms Aug 1, 2025-July 31, 2026.
Cotton Waste \2\.............................. 788,489 Kilograms Sep 20, 2024-Sep 19, 2025.
356,865 Kilograms Sep 20, 2025-Sep 19, 2026.
Cotton Processed but not Spun \2\............. 18,803 Kilograms Sep 20, 2024-Sep 19, 2025.
21,309 Kilograms Sep 20, 2025-Sep 19, 2026.
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\1\ Includes change in consumption.
\2\ 12-month period from September to September.
[FR Doc. 2025-23603 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-10-P
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