[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 53 (Thursday, March 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13387-13388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7172]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Uruguay Round Agricultural Safeguard Trigger Levels

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of product coverage and trigger levels for safeguard 
measures provided for in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists the products which may be subject to 
additional import duties under the safeguard provisions of the Uruguay 
Round Agreement on Agriculture. It also includes the quantity level 
applicable to each of those products.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 19, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cathy S. McKinnell, Multilateral Trade Negotiations Division, Foreign 
Agricultural Service, room 5530-South Building, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-1022 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, 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 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. 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 Federal Register, Vol. 60, No. 
2, page 427. The President delegated this duty to the Secretary of 
Agriculture in Presidential Proclamation No. 6763, dated December 23, 
1994. In the Revision of Delegations of Authority published in the 
Federal Register, Vol. 60, No. 216, Wednesday, November 8, 1995, page 
56392, the Secretary of Agriculture further delegated the duty to the 
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 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). These duties became effective 
January 1, 1995

Notice

    As provided in section 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, 
consistent with Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture, additional 
duties may be applied in accordance with provisions of subchapter IV of 
chapter 99 of the HTS for the products, and under the conditions 
described in the annex to this notice.

    Issued at Washington, DC this February 18, 1998.
Lon Hatamiya,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.

Annex

    The definitions of these products were provided in the Notice of 
Safeguard Action published in the Federal Register, Wednesday, 
January 4, 1995, Vol. 60, No. 2, page 427.

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                                       Quantity based safeguard trigger 
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Beef...............................  817,803 mt.                        
Mutton.............................  9,335 mt.                          
Cream..............................  4,528,994 liters.                  
Evaporated or Condensed Milk.......  1,629,815 kilograms.               
Nonfat Dry Milk....................  1,866,593 kilograms.               
Dried Whole Milk...................  1,022,123 kilograms.               
Dried Cream........................  233 kilograms.                     
Dried Whey/Buttermilk..............  174,967 kilograms.                 
Butter.............................  3,906,648 kilograms.               
Butter Oil and Butter Substitutes..  3,755,077 kilograms.               
Dairy Mixtures.....................  1,508,114 kilograms.               
Bleu Cheese........................  3,062,388 kilograms.               
Cheddar Cheese.....................  9,359,355 kilograms.               
American Type Cheese...............  3,814,413 kilograms.               
Edam/Gouda Cheese..................  6,617,074 kilograms.               
Italian-Type Cheese................  14,375,304 kilograms.              
Swiss Cheese with Eye Formation....  33,381,481 kilograms.              
Gruyere Process Cheese.............  7,686,046 kilograms.               
Lowfat Cheese......................  4,946,949 kilograms.               
NSPF Cheese........................  48,853,577 kilograms.              

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Peanuts............................  43,041 mt.                         
Peanut Butter/Paste................  21,431 mt.                         
Raw Cane Sugar.....................  2,263,717 mt.                      
Refined Sugar and Syrups...........  22,660 mt.                         
Blended Syrups.....................  0 mt.                              
Articles Over 65% Sugar............  0 mt.                              
Articles Over 10% Sugar............  80,309 mt.                         
Sweetened Cocoa Powder.............  2,364 mt.                          
Chocolate Crumb....................  9,994,979 kilograms.               
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb.............  195,249 kilograms.                 
Infant Formula Containing            3,852 kilograms.                   
 Oligosaccharides.                                                      
Mixes and Doughs...................  1,274 mt.                          
Mixed Condiments and Seasonings....  231 mt.                            
Ice Cream..........................  31,590 liters.                     
Animal Feed Containing Milk........  1,437,534 kilograms.               
Short Staple Cotton................  17,592,104 kilograms.              
Harsh or Rough Cotton..............  0 mt.                              
Medium Staple Cotton...............  19,898 kilograms.                  
Extra Long Staple Cotton...........  234,089 kilograms.                 
Cotton Waste.......................  39,828 kilograms.                  
Cotton, Processed, Not Spun........  383 kilograms.                     
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[FR Doc. 98-7172 Filed 3-18-98; 8:45 am]
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