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Adjustment of Appendices Under the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing Regulation

This notice announces the transfer of amounts for certain dairy articles from the historical license category (Appendix 1) to the lottery (nonhistorical) license category (Appen...

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Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service

AGENCY:

Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION:

Notice.

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 2022 quota year.

DATES:

August 31, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elizabeth Riley, (202) 720-6868, .

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 ( printed page 53442) 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.

The regulation at 7 CFR 6.34(a) states 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 § 6.23, then the amount of such license will be transferred to Appendix 2. Section 6.34(b) provides that the cumulative annual transfers 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.

Aileen Mannix,

Acting Licensing Authority, Foreign Agricultural Service.

Articles Subject to Dairy Import Licenses (Kilograms) 1
  Historical licenses (Appendix 1) 2 Lottery licenses (Appendix 2) 3 Sum of appendix 1 & 2 4 Designated licenses (Tokyo round, Appendix 3) 4 Designated licenses (Uruguay Round, Appendix 4) 4 Total 4
NON-CHEESE ARTICLES, Notes 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 (Appendix 1 reduction)
BUTTER (NOTE 6, Commodity Code G) (−5,529 kg) 4,200,466 2,776,534 6,977,000 6,977,000
EU-27 53,445 28,654 82,099
New Zealand 76,503 74,090 150,593
United Kingdom (−2,010 kg) 7,144 6,918 14,062
Other Countries (−3,519 kg) 31,863 42,072 73,935
Any Country 4,031,511 2,624,800 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 M) 0 224,981 224,981 224,981
Canada 0 161,161 161,161
New Zealand 0 63,820 63,820
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES CONTAINING OVER 45 PERCENT OF BUTTERFAT AND/OR BUTTER OIL (NOTE 14, Commodity Code SU) 0 6,080,500 6,080,500 6,080,500
Any Country 0 6,080,500 6,080,500
TOTAL: NON-CHEESE ARTICLES (−5,529 kg) 4,200,466 17,664,315 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, Commodity Code OT) (−138,001 kg) 16,883,403 14,586,328 31,469,731 9,661,128 7,496,000 48,626,859
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 (−13,616 kg) 882,039 258,961 1,141,000 1,141,000
Costa Rica 0 0 0 1,550,000 1,550,000
EU-27 (not including Portugal) (−67,071 kg) 12,702,881 8,572,686 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 0 294,000 29,000 323,000
New Zealand (−18,155 kg) 1,314,690 3,500,782 4,815,472 6,506,528 11,322,000
Norway 122,860 27,140 150,000 150,000
Switzerland (−6,304 kg) 505,880 165,532 671,412 548,588 500,000 1,720,000
Uruguay 0 0 0 250,000 250,000
United Kingdom (−32,855 kg) 1,085,216 777,564 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) (−7,846 kg) 1,922,980 558,021 2,481,001 430,000 2,911,001
Argentina 2,000 0 2,000 2,000
EU-27 (−4,467 kg) 1,908,257 550,048 2,458,305 347,078 2,805,383
Chile 0 0 0 80,000 80,000
United Kingdom (−3,379 kg) 12,723 7,972 20,695 2,922 23,617
Other Countries 0 1 1 1
CHEDDAR CHEESE (NOTE 18, Commodity Code C) (−30,504 kg) 2,256,491 2,027,365 4,283,856 519,033 7,620,000 12,422,889
Australia (−9,352 kg) 872,542 111,957 984,499 215,501 1,250,000 2,450,000
Chile 0 0 0 0 220,000 220,000
EU-27 (−3,026 kg) 13,619 69,918 83,537 0 333,515 417,052
New Zealand 1,265,070 1,531,398 2,796,468 303,532 5,100,000 8,200,000
United Kingdom (−9,753 kg) 26,006 153,457 179,463 0 716,485 895,948
Other Countries (−8,373 kg) 79,254 60,635 139,889 139,889
Any Country 0 100,000 100,000 100,000
AMERICAN-TYPE CHEESE (NOTE 19, Commodity Code A) (−9,474 kg) 1,137,424 2,028,129 3,165,553 357,003 0 3,522,556
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Australia (−4,939 kg) 748,639 132,359 880,998 119,002 1,000,000
EU-27 131,539 222,461 354,000 354,000
New Zealand (−4,535 kg) 154,190 1,607,809 1,761,999 238,001 2,000,000
Other Countries 103,056 65,500 168,556 168,556
EDAM AND GOUDA CHEESE (NOTE 20, Commodity Code D) (−31,432 kg) 4,239,135 1,367,267 5,606,402 0 1,210,000 6,816,402
Argentina 105,418 19,582 125,000 110,000 235,000
EU-27 (−31,432 kg) 4,017,909 1,271,091 5,289,000 1,100,000 6,389,000
Norway 111,046 55,954 167,000 167,000
Other Countries 4,762 20,640 25,402 25,402
ITALIAN-TYPE CHEESES (NOTE 21, Commodity Code D) (−40,879 kg) 5,826,550 1,693,997 7,520,547 795,517 5,165,000 13,481,064
Argentina (−22,688 kg) 3,507,548 617,935 4,125,483 367,517 1,890,000 6,383,000
EU-27 (−18,191 kg) 2,319,002 1,062,998 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 Code GR) (−845,981 kg) 3,382,914 3,268,400 6,651,314 823,519 380,000 7,854,833
EU-27 (−818,903 kg) 2,160,448 2,991,546 5,151,994 393,006 380,000 5,925,000
Switzerland (−4,740 kg) 1,211,306 208,181 1,419,487 430,513 1,850,000
Other Countries (−22,338 kg) 11,160 68,673 79,833 79,833
LOWFAT CHEESE (NOTE 23, Commodity Code LF) 1,173,766 3,251,142 4,424,908 1,050,000 0 5,474,908
EU-27 1,173,766 3,251,141 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 (NOTE 25, Commodity Code SW) (−119,036 kg) 12,864,355 9,432,976 22,297,331 9,557,945 2,620,000 34,475,276
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 (−9,148 kg) 9,644,594 6,832,234 16,476,828 4,003,172 2,420,000 22,900,000
Iceland 0 149,999 149,999 150,001 300,000
Israel (−27,000 kg) 0 27,000 27,000 27,000
Norway (−77,456 kg) 2,207,873 1,447,437 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 (−5,432 kg) 42,821 42,455 85,276 85,276
TOTAL: CHEESE ARTICLES (−1,223,153 kg) 49,687,018 38,213,625 87,900,643 22,764,145 24,921,000 135,585,788
TOTAL: CHEESE & NON-CHEESE 53,887,484 55,877,940 109,765,424 22,764,145 24,921,000 157,450,569
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 2021 by a total of -1,228,682 kg.
3  Increased from 2021 by a total of 1,228,682 kg.
4  No change.

[FR Doc. 2022-18745 Filed 8-30-22; 8:45 am]

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