[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4952-4953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2748]



      
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Foreign Agriculture Service


Uruguay Round Agricultural Safeguard Trigger Levels

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of updated quantity trigger levels for safeguard 
measures provided for in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated quantity trigger levels for 
products which may be subject to additional import duties under the 
safeguard provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert J. Spitzer, Multilateral Trade 
Policy Affairs Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, room 5540-South 
Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-1000 or 
telephone at (202) 720-6064.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 of the Uruguay Round Agreement on 
Agriculture provides that additional import duties may be imposed on 
imports of products subject to tariffication during 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 three years for which data is 
available by 25 percent. 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 based, may be applied at any given time to an 
article.
    Section of 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act requires that 
the President cause to be published in the Federal Register the 
agricultural products subject to safeguards, the price and quantity 
trigger levels which will be applied to these products, and the 
relevant period for the quantity based safeguard for each product. The 
President delegated this authority to the Secretary of Agriculture in 
Presidential Proclamation No. 6763, dated December 23, 1994. On 
Wednesday, January 4, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture provided the 
above information, including the definition of each product, in the 
Notice of Safeguard Action published in 60 FR 427.
    In the notice entitled Revision of Delegations of Authority which 
was published in 60 FR 56392 on Wednesday, November 8, 1995, the 
Secretary of Agriculture delegated to the Administrator, Foreign 
Agricultural Service, the authority to determine quantity trigger 
levels for these safeguards. The quantity triggers must be updated 
annually based on import levels during the most recent three years. The 
Annex to this notice contains the updated quantity trigger levels. 
Additional information on the levels of the additional duties and how 
they will be applied is provided in subchapter IV of chapter 99 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS).

Notice

    As provided in section 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, 
consistent with Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture, the 
safeguard quantity trigger levels notified by the Secretary of 
Agriculture previously on January 4, 1995, are superceded by the levels 
indicated in the annex to this notice. These quantity trigger levels 
are effective for the quota period provided for in the HTS for each of 
the respective tariff rate quotas which begins on the appropriate date 
during calendar year 1996.

    Issued at Washington, DC this 2nd day of February, 1996.
Tim Galvin,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.

Annex

    The definitions of these products were provided in the Notice of 
Safeguard Action published in 60 FR 427 on Wednesday, January 4, 1995:

                    Quantity Based Safeguard Trigger                    
                                                                        
                                                                        
Beef................................  905,615 tons.                     
Mutton..............................  8,408 tons.                       
Cream...............................  4,448,444 liters.                 
Evaporated or Condensed Milk........  1,406,068 kilograms.              
Nonfat Dry Milk.....................  983,986 kilograms.                
Dried Whole Milk....................  3,948 kilograms.                  
Dried Cream.........................  0 kilograms.                      
Dried Whey/Buttermilk...............  277,271 kilograms.                
Butter..............................  342,269 kilograms.                
Butter Oil and Butter Substitutes...  684,554 kilograms.                
Dairy Mixtures......................  644,673 kilograms.                
Blue Cheese.........................  2,841,771 kilograms.              
Cheddar Cheese......................  6,804,020 kilograms.              
American Type Cheese................  4,177,868 kilograms.              
Edam/Gouda Cheese...................  6,365,228 kilograms.              
Italian-Type Cheese.................  9,867,535 kilograms.              
Swiss Cheese with Eye Formation.....  34,617,641 kilograms.             
Gruyere Process Cheese..............  7,761,503 kilograms.              
Lowfat Cheese.......................  5,767,508 kilograms.              
NSPF Cheese.........................  49,105,293 kilograms.             
Peanuts.............................  969 tons.                         
Peanut Butter/Paste.................  20,760 tons.                      
Raw Cane Sugar......................  1,503,970 tons                    
Refined Sugar and Syrups............  43,407 tons                       
Blended Syrups......................  0 tons.                           
Articles Over 65% Sugar.............  0 tons.                           
Articles Over 10% Sugar.............  82,515 tons.                      
Sweetened Cocoa Powder..............  2,423 tons.                       
Chocolate Crumb.....................  9,394,526 kilograms.              
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb..............  495,718 kilograms.                
Infant Formula Containing             0 kilograms.                      
 Oligosaccharides.                                                      
Mixes and Doughs....................  695 tons.                         
Mixed Condiments and Seasonings.....  187 tons.                         
Ice Cream...........................  96,560 liters.                    
Animal Feed Containing Milk.........  5,587,043 kilograms.              
Short Staple Cotton.................  631,280 kilograms.                
Harsh or Rough Cotton...............  0 tons.                           

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Medium Staple Cotton................  20,012 kilograms.                 
Extra Long Staple Cotton............  226,845 kilograms.                
Cotton Waste........................  156,524 kilograms.                
Cotton Processed, Not Spun..........  71 kilograms.                     



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