81 FR 33200 - WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger Levels
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 101 (May 25, 2016)
Foreign Agricultural Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 101 (May 25, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 33200-33201] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-12321] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: May 25, 2016. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Safeguard Staff, Import Policies and Export Reporting Division, Office of Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1020, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-1020; by telephone (202) 720-0638; or by fax (202) 720-0876. 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 to be imposed if the volume of imports of an article exceeds the average of the most recent 3 years for which data are available by 5, 10, or 25 percent, depending on the article. 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 1005 (Jan. 4, 1995). The Secretary of Agriculture further delegated this duty, which lies with the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)). The Annex to this notice contains the updated quantity trigger levels. 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 (2016) 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 superceded 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). Issued at Washington, DC, this 25th day of April 2016. Suzanne Palmieri, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. Annex [[Page 33201]] Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Product Trigger level Period ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beef.......................... 317,530 mt....... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Mutton........................ 3,316 mt......... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Cream......................... 2,789 liters..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Evaporated or Condensed Milk.. 1,173,090 kg..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Nonfat Dry Milk............... 525,441 kg....... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Dried Whole Milk.............. 3,406,679 kg..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Dried Cream................... 586 kg........... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Dried Whey/Buttermilk......... 18,198 kg........ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Butter........................ 13,656,765 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Butter Oil and Butter 6,076,713 kg..... January 1, 2016 to Substitutes. December 31, 2016. Dairy Mixtures................ 15,718,595 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Blue Cheese................... 4,865,957 kg..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Cheddar Cheese................ 11,292,096 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. American-Type Cheese.......... 663,153 kg....... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Edam/Gouda Cheese............. 8,161,533 kg..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Italian-Type Cheese........... 19,591,643 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Swiss Cheese with Eye 28,790,738 kg.... January 1, 2016 to Formation. December 31, 2016. Gruyere Process Cheese........ 3,745,854 kg..... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. NSPF Cheese................... 52,603,975 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Lowfat Cheese................. 153,319 kg....... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Peanuts....................... 19,037 mt........ April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016. 13,106 mt........ April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. Peanut Butter/Paste........... 3,592 mt......... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Raw Cane Sugar................ 676,944 mt....... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 617,282 mt....... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Refined Sugar and Syrups...... 177,579 mt....... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 355,264 mt....... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Blended Syrups................ 87 mt............ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 106 mt........... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Articles Over 65% Sugar....... 385 mt........... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 415 mt........... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Articles Over 10% Sugar....... 20,158 mt........ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 18,930 mt........ October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Sweetened Cocoa Powder........ 86 mt............ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 72 mt............ October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Chocolate Crumb............... 12,167,560 kg.... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Lowfat Chocolate Crumb........ 500,069 kg....... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Infant Formula Containing 309,726 kg....... January 1, 2016 to Oligosaccharides. December 31, 2016. Mixes and Doughs.............. 230 mt........... October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015. 234 mt........... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. Mixed Condiments and 961 mt........... October 1, 2015 to Seasonings. September 30, 2016. 894 mt........... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. Ice Cream..................... 2,964,185 liters. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Animal Feed Containing Milk... 27,792 kg........ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Short Staple Cotton........... 2,330,949 kg..... September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016. 1,363,307 kg..... September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017. Harsh or Rough Cotton......... 0 kilograms...... August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016. 13 kg............ August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Medium Staple Cotton.......... 48,783 kg........ August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016. 0 kg............. August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Extra Long Staple Cotton...... 1,505,611 kg..... August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016. 1,270,096 kg..... August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Cotton Waste.................. 793,048 kg....... September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016. 925,273 kg....... September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017. Cotton, Processed, Not Spun... 2,058 kg......... September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016. 51 kg............ September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FR Doc. 2016-12321 Filed 5-24-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-10-P
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exchange standard is effective and warehouse for reporting and analyzing are met. The agreement permits
efficient? data in SNAP as well as across additional duties to be charged if the
3. State agencies already have focused programs? price of an individual shipment of
efforts on integrating case management 12. Efforts to promote data imported products falls below the
initiatives in order to better coordinate interoperability to improve oversight, average price for similar goods imported
assistance for families with complex data analysis, and decision-making are during the years 1986–88 by a specified
service needs across multiple program only as good as the quality of the data percentage. It also permits additional
areas. What factors should FNS consider itself. What factors should FNS consider duties to be imposed if the volume of
in a future rule to address SNAP data to strengthen SNAP data integrity in imports of an article exceeds the average
standardization so as not to adversely support of data exchange standards? of the most recent 3 years for which data
impact ongoing or planned initiatives? 13. In addition to data exchange are available by 5, 10, or 25 percent,
4. In promulgating rules, what Federal standards, should FNS consider depending on the article. These
or State laws should FNS be aware of additional steps related to this effort, additional duties may not be imposed
that either hinder or promote data such as providing standardized data on quantities for which minimum or
exchange standards? sharing agreements for SNAP data? current access commitments were made
5. What factors should FNS consider 14. What other concerns or barriers, if during the Uruguay Round negotiations,
as part of the data exchange any, exist in successfully implementing and only one type of safeguard, price or
standardization effort to further data exchanges that were not addressed quantity, may be applied at any given
strengthen client confidentiality? For by any of the previous questions that time to an article.
example, should FNS mandate industry FNS should consider?
standard security protocols, such as Section 405 of the Uruguay Round
Dated: May 10, 2016. Agreements Act requires that the
requirements that Social Security Audrey Rowe,
Numbers (SSN) be encrypted and that President cause to be published in the
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. Federal Register information regarding
States utilize data masking, or that
States may not use SSN as a unique
[FR Doc. 2016–12262 Filed 5–24–16; 8:45 am] the price and quantity safeguards,
client identifier? If so, how can FNS BILLING CODE 3410–30–P including the quantity trigger levels,
promote further data interoperability which must be updated annually based
while maintaining data security? upon import levels during the most
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE recent 3 years. The President delegated
6. Are there any data standardization
practices in your current data this duty to the Secretary of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service
management process that could apply in Presidential Proclamation No. 6763,
here, such as standardizing your data WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based dated December 23, 1994, 60 FR 1005
field names and definitions, including Safeguard Trigger Levels (Jan. 4, 1995). The Secretary of
security classification, and Agriculture further delegated this duty,
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, which lies with the Administrator of the
implementing access policies to ensure
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR
input data cleansing and output data
ACTION: Notice of product coverage and 2.43(a)(2)). The Annex to this notice
consistency?
7. Do States provide training to trigger levels for safeguard measures contains the updated quantity trigger
workers involved in the administration provided for in the World Trade levels.
and enforcement of SNAP about data Organization (WTO) Agreement on Additional information on the
sharing? Agriculture. products subject to safeguards and the
8. Do States conduct security training SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated additional duties which may apply can
with all staff involved in the quantity-based trigger levels for be found in subchapter IV of Chapter 99
administration and enforcement of the products which may be subject to of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
program that covers the client additional import duties under the the United States (2016) and in the
confidentiality requirements of the Food safeguard provisions of the WTO Secretary of Agriculture’s Notice of
and Nutrition Act of 2008, as well as the Agreement on Agriculture. This notice Uruguay Round Agricultural Safeguard
SNAP regulations? If so, please address also includes the relevant period Trigger Levels, published in the Federal
additional questions below: applicable for the trigger levels on each Register at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
a. What is the frequency of the of the listed products. Notice: As provided in Section 405 of
training? the Uruguay Round Agreements Act,
DATES: May 25, 2016.
b. Does the State maintain a record of
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: consistent with Article 5 of the WTO
each individual worker’s security
Safeguard Staff, Import Policies and Agreement on Agriculture, the safeguard
training history?
Export Reporting Division, Office of quantity trigger levels previously
c. Does the training cover additional
Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural notified are superceded by the levels
security topics?
9. What factors should FNS consider Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, indicated in the Annex to this notice.
regarding the impact data exchange Stop 1020, 1400 Independence Avenue The definitions of these products were
standards would have on States that SW., Washington, DC 20250–1020; by provided in the Notice of Safeguard
integrate data sources external to the telephone (202) 720–0638; or by fax Action published in the Federal
SNAP State agency? (202) 720–0876. Register, at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
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10. What barriers, if any, should FNS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 Issued at Washington, DC, this 25th day of
consider in implementing federally of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture April 2016.
required data exchanges for SNAP provides that additional import duties Suzanne Palmieri,
program administration? may be imposed on imports of products Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
11. What factors should FNS consider subject to tariffication as a result of the
for States that utilize an enterprise data Uruguay Round, if certain conditions Annex
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QUANTITY-BASED SAFEGUARD TRIGGER
Product Trigger level Period
Beef ................................................. 317,530 mt ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Mutton ............................................. 3,316 mt ......................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Cream .............................................. 2,789 liters ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk ...... 1,173,090 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Nonfat Dry Milk ............................... 525,441 kg ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Dried Whole Milk ............................. 3,406,679 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Dried Cream .................................... 586 kg ............................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Dried Whey/Buttermilk .................... 18,198 kg ....................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Butter ............................................... 13,656,765 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Butter Oil and Butter Substitutes .... 6,076,713 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Dairy Mixtures ................................. 15,718,595 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Blue Cheese .................................... 4,865,957 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Cheddar Cheese ............................. 11,292,096 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
American-Type Cheese .................. 663,153 kg ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Edam/Gouda Cheese ...................... 8,161,533 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Italian-Type Cheese ........................ 19,591,643 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Swiss Cheese with Eye Formation 28,790,738 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Gruyere Process Cheese ................ 3,745,854 kg .................................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
NSPF Cheese ................................. 52,603,975 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Lowfat Cheese ................................ 153,319 kg ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Peanuts ........................................... 19,037 mt ....................................... April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016.
13,106 mt ....................................... April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017.
Peanut Butter/Paste ........................ 3,592 mt ......................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Raw Cane Sugar ............................. 676,944 mt ..................................... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
617,282 mt ..................................... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Refined Sugar and Syrups .............. 177,579 mt ..................................... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
355,264 mt ..................................... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Blended Syrups ............................... 87 mt .............................................. October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
106 mt ............................................ October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Articles Over 65% Sugar ................ 385 mt ............................................ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
415 mt ............................................ October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Articles Over 10% Sugar ................ 20,158 mt ....................................... October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
18,930 mt ....................................... October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Sweetened Cocoa Powder ............. 86 mt .............................................. October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
72 mt .............................................. October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Chocolate Crumb ............................ 12,167,560 kg ................................ January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb ................ 500,069 kg ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Infant Formula Containing 309,726 kg ..................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Oligosaccharides.
Mixes and Doughs .......................... 230 mt ............................................ October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.
234 mt ............................................ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
Mixed Condiments and Seasonings 961 mt ............................................ October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
894 mt ............................................ October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017.
Ice Cream ........................................ 2,964,185 liters .............................. January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Animal Feed Containing Milk .......... 27,792 kg ....................................... January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
Short Staple Cotton ......................... 2,330,949 kg .................................. September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
1,363,307 kg .................................. September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017.
Harsh or Rough Cotton ................... 0 kilograms .................................... August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
13 kg .............................................. August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017.
Medium Staple Cotton .................... 48,783 kg ....................................... August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
0 kg ................................................ August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017.
Extra Long Staple Cotton ................ 1,505,611 kg .................................. August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.
1,270,096 kg .................................. August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017.
Cotton Waste .................................. 793,048 kg ..................................... September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
925,273 kg ..................................... September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017.
Cotton, Processed, Not Spun ......... 2,058 kg ......................................... September 20, 2015 to September 19, 2016.
51 kg .............................................. September 20, 2016 to September 19, 2017.
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| Dates | May 25, 2016. | |
| Contact | Safeguard Staff, Import Policies and Export Reporting Division, Office of Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1020, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-1020; by telephone (202) 720-0638; or by fax (202) 720-0876. | |
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