[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67408-67410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18577]


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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 2024 quota 
year.

DATES: August 20, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Riley, (202) 720-6868, 
[email protected].

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 Import Quota 
Licensing Regulation codified at 7 CFR 6.20-6.36 that provides for the 
issuance of licenses to import certain dairy articles under tariff-rate 
quotas (TRQs) as set forth in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of 
the United States. 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.
    7 CFR 6.34(a) provides 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, 
the amount of such license will be transferred to Appendix 2. Section 
6.25(b) of the regulations provides that beginning with the 2024 quota 
year, a historical licensee who has surrendered more than 50% of such 
historical license in at least three of the past five quota years will 
have their historical license reduced to the average of their imports 
over those five years. When issuing historical licenses for the 2024 
quota year, FAS used license usage data from 2019-2023 to implement 
this provision of the regulations. Section 6.34(b) provides that the 
cumulative annual transfers to Appendix 2 will be published by notice 
in the Federal Register. Accordingly, this document sets forth the 
revised Appendices in the table below. Although there are no changes to 
the quantities for designated licenses (Appendix 3 and Appendix 4), 
those numbers are also included in the table below for completeness.

Daniel R. Williams II,
Acting Deputy Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.

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                                                        Articles Subject to Dairy Import Licenses
                                                                     [Kilograms] \1\
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                                                                                                                            Designated
                                                                                                            Designated       licenses
                                                     Historical     Lottery licenses  Sum of appendix  1     licenses        (Uruguay
                                                      licenses      (appendix 2) \3\        & 2 \4\        (Tokyo round,      round,         Total \4\
                                                  (appendix 1) \2\                                          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) (-189,068kg)..         4,011,398         2,965,602           6,977,000  ..............  ..............       6,977,000
    EU-27 (-392kg)..............................            53,053            29,046              82,099  ..............  ..............  ..............
    New Zealand (-3,611kg)......................            72,892            77,701             150,593  ..............  ..............  ..............
    United Kingdom (-701kg).....................             6,443             7,619              14,062  ..............  ..............  ..............
    Other Countries (-31,559kg).................               304            73,631              73,935  ..............  ..............  ..............
    Any Country (-152,804kg)....................         3,878,707         2,777,604           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 (-189,068kg).         4,011,398        17,853,383          21,864,781  ..............  ..............      21,864,781
CHEESE ARTICLES (Notes 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
 22, 23, 25):
CHEESE AND SUBSTITUTES FOR CHEESE (NOTE 16,             15,672,293        15,797,438          31,469,731       9,661,128       7,496,000      48,626,859
 Commodity Code OT) (-864,266kg)................
    Argentina...................................                 0             7,690               7,690          92,310  ..............         100,000
    Australia...................................            13,122           528,048             541,170         758,830       1,750,000       3,050,000
    Canada (-456,179kg).........................           425,860           715,140           1,141,000  ..............  ..............       1,141,000
    Costa Rica..................................                 0                 0                   0  ..............       1,550,000       1,550,000
    EU-27 (not including Portugal) (-219,770kg).        12,346,345         8,929,222          21,275,567         835,707       3,168,576      25,279,850
    Portugal....................................            65,838            63,471             129,309         223,691  ..............         353,000
    Israel......................................            79,696                 0              79,696         593,304  ..............         673,000
    Iceland.....................................            29,054           264,946             294,000          29,000  ..............         323,000
    New Zealand (-30,086kg).....................         1,284,604         3,530,868           4,815,472       6,506,528  ..............      11,322,000
    Norway (-80,418kg)..........................            42,442           107,558             150,000  ..............  ..............         150,000
    Switzerland (-76,343kg).....................           429,537           241,875             671,412         548,588         500,000       1,720,000
    Uruguay.....................................                 0                 0                   0  ..............         250,000         250,000
    United Kingdom (-1,470kg)...................           873,668           989,112           1,862,780          73,170         277,424       2,213,374
    Other Countries.............................            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) (-          1,874,481           606,520           2,481,001  ..............         430,000       2,911,001
 45,175kg)......................................
    Argentina (-2,000kg)........................                 0             2,000               2,000  ..............  ..............           2,000
    EU-27 (-43,156kg)...........................         1,862,160           596,145           2,458,305  ..............         347,078       2,805,383
    Chile.......................................                 0                 0                   0  ..............          80,000          80,000
    United Kingdom (-19kg)......................            12,321             8,374              20,695  ..............           2,922          23,617
    Other Countries.............................                 0                 1                   1  ..............  ..............               1
CHEDDAR CHEESE (NOTE 18, Commodity Code C) (-            1,661,914         2,621,942           4,283,856         519,033       7,620,000      12,422,889
 583,828kg).....................................
    Australia (-73,435kg).......................           794,431           190,068             984,499         215,501       1,250,000       2,450,000
    Chile.......................................                 0                 0                   0               0         220,000         220,000
    EU-27 (-287kg)..............................            11,819            71,718              83,537               0         333,515         417,052
    New Zealand (-502,193kg)....................           758,317         2,038,151           2,796,468         303,532       5,100,000       8,200,000
    United Kingdom (-3,251kg)...................            22,755           156,708             179,463               0         716,485         895,948
    Other Countries (-4,662kg)..................            74,592            65,297             139,889  ..............  ..............         139,889
    Any Country.................................                 0           100,000             100,000  ..............  ..............         100,000
AMERICAN-TYPE CHEESE (NOTE 19, Commodity Code A)               907         3,164,646           3,165,553         357,003               0       3,522,556
 (-1,123,751kg).................................
    Australia (-744,943kg)......................                 0           880,998             880,998         119,002  ..............       1,000,000
    EU-27 (-130,632kg)..........................               907           353,093             354,000  ..............  ..............         354,000
    New Zealand (-145,120kg)....................                 0         1,761,999           1,761,999         238,001  ..............       2,000,000
    Other Countries (-103,056kg)................                 0           168,556             168,556  ..............  ..............         168,556
EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE (NOTE 20, Commodity Code           4,202,581         1,403,821           5,606,402               0       1,210,000       6,816,402
 D) (-27,925kg).................................
    Argentina...................................           105,418            19,582             125,000  ..............         110,000         235,000
    EU-27 (-23,163kg)...........................         3,986,117         1,302,883           5,289,000  ..............       1,100,000       6,389,000
    Norway......................................           111,046            55,954             167,000  ..............  ..............         167,000
    Other Countries (-4,762kg)..................                 0            25,402              25,402  ..............  ..............          25,402
ITALIAN-TYPE CHEESES (NOTE 21, Commodity Code D)         3,435,989         4,084,558           7,520,547         795,517       5,165,000      13,481,064
 (-2,388,273kg).................................
    Argentina (-2,378,911kg)....................         1,128,637         2,996,846           4,125,483         367,517       1,890,000       6,383,000

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    EU-27 (-9,362kg)............................         2,307,352         1,074,648           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.............................                 0            13,064              13,064  ..............  ..............          13,064
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE (NOTE 22, Commodity          1,908,365         4,742,949           6,651,314         823,519         380,000       7,854,833
 Code GR) (-1,470,003kg)........................
    EU-27 (-410,920kg)..........................         1,744,982         3,407,012           5,151,994         393,006         380,000       5,925,000
    Switzerland (-1,059,083kg)..................           152,223         1,267,264           1,419,487         430,513  ..............       1,850,000
    Other Countries.............................            11,160            68,673              79,833  ..............  ..............          79,833
LOWFAT CHEESE (NOTE 23, Commodity Code LF) (-                    0         4,424,908           4,424,908       1,050,000               0       5,474,908
 1,173,766kg)...................................
    EU-27 (-1,173,766kg)........................                 0         4,424,907           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.............................                 0                 1                   1  ..............  ..............               1
SWISS OR EMMENTHALER CHEESE WITH EYE FORMATION          10,222,564        12,074,767          22,297,331       9,557,945       2,620,000      34,475,276
 (NOTE 25, Commodity Code SW) (-2,632,699kg)....
    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 (-1,792,062kg)........................         7,843,440         8,633,388          16,476,828       4,003,172       2,420,000      22,900,000
    Iceland.....................................                 0           149,999             149,999         150,001  ..............         300,000
    Israel......................................                 0            27,000              27,000  ..............  ..............          27,000
    Norway (-797,816kg).........................         1,410,057         2,245,253           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 (-42,821kg).................                 0            85,276              85,276  ..............  ..............          85,276
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        Total: CHEESE ARTICLES (-10,309,686kg)..        38,979,094        48,921,549          87,900,643      22,764,145      24,921,000     135,585,788
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            Total: CHEESE & NON-CHEESE..........        42,990,492        66,774,932         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 2023 by a total of -10,498,754 kg.
\3\ Increased from 2023 by a total of 10,498,754 kg.
\4\ No change.

[FR Doc. 2024-18577 Filed 8-19-24; 8:45 am]
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