[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 129 (Friday, July 9, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 36249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14726]
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Increase in Fiscal Year 2021 Specialty Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture
(the Secretary) is providing notice of an increase in the fiscal year
(FY) 2021 specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) of 40,000 metric tons
raw value (MTRV).
DATES: This notice is applicable on July 9, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Souleymane Diaby, 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; by telephone (202) 720-2916; or
by email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 9, 2020, USDA announced the
establishment of the in-quota quantity of the FY 2021 refined sugar TRQ
at 162,000 MTRV for which the sucrose content, by weight in the dry
state, must have a polarimeter reading of 99.5 degrees or more (85 FR
41226, July 9, 2020). This amount included the minimum level to which
the United States is committed under the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements
(22,000 MTRV of which 1,656 MTRV is reserved for specialty sugar) and
an additional 140,000 MTRV reserved for specialty sugars. Pursuant to
Additional U.S. Note 5 to Chapter 17 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) and Section 359k of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938, as amended, the Secretary today increased the overall FY 2021
refined sugar TRQ by 40,000 MTRV to 202,000 MTRV. The increased amount
is reserved for specialty sugar. Entry of this sugar will be permitted
beginning July 21, 2021. The sugar entered under this tariff-rate quota
is reserved for organic sugar and other specialty sugars not currently
produced commercially in the United States or reasonably available from
domestic sources.
Jason Hafemeister,
Acting Deputy Under Secretary, Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2021-14726 Filed 7-7-21; 4:15 pm]
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