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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
WTO Agricultural Safeguard Trigger
Levels
Foreign Agricultural Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice of product coverage and
trigger levels for safeguard measures
provided for in the World Trade
Organization (WTO) Agreement on
Agriculture.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated
quantity trigger levels for products,
which may be subject to additional
import duties under the safeguard
provisions of the WTO Agreement on
Agriculture. Beginning this year, the
method of determining these triggers
has been modified to exclude trade from
countries that are not subject to WTO
safeguards. This notice also includes the
relevant period applicable for the trigger
levels on each of the listed products.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 14, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charles R. Bertsch, Multilateral Trade
Negotiations Division, Foreign
Agricultural Service, room 5524—South
Building, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250–
1022, telephone at (202) 720–6278, or email charles.bertsch@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5
of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
provides that additional import duties
may be imposed on imports of products
subject to tarriffication 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,
Quantity Based Safeguard Trigger dated
December 23, 1994. The Secretary of
Agriculture further delegated the duty to
the Administrator of the Foreign
Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)).
The Annex to this notice contains the
updated quantity trigger levels.
Beginning this year a change has been
made in the method for calculating
these trigger levels. In previous years
imports from all sources were included
in the three year average used as the
basis of the safeguard triggers. After
consulting with the U.S. Trade
Representative’s Office, it was
determined that it is more appropriate
to exclude from these calculations
imports from countries that are not
subject to the WTO safeguard duties.
The following countries are not subject
to those duties as a result of Free Trade
Agreements: Canada, Mexico, Jordan,
Singapore, Chile and Australia.
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 and in the Secretary
of Agriculture’s Notice of Safeguard
Action, published in the Federal
Register at 60 FR 427, January 4, 1995.
Notice: As provided in section 405 of
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act,
consistent with Article 5 of the
Agreement on Agriculture, the safeguard
quantity trigger levels previously
notified are superceded by the levels
indicated in the Annex to this notice.
Dated: Issued at Washington, DC this 28
day of June, 2005.
A. Ellen Terpstra,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service,
Annex.
The definitions of these products
were provided in the Notice of
Safeguard Action published in the
Federal Register, at 60 FR 427, January
4, 1995.
ANNEX—QUANTITY-BASED SAFEGUARD TRIGGER
Product
Trigger level
Beef ................................................................
Mutton .............................................................
Cream .............................................................
Evaporated or Condensed Milk ......................
Nonfat Dry Milk ...............................................
Dried Whole Milk ............................................
Dried Cream ...................................................
Dried Whey/Buttermilk ....................................
Butter ..............................................................
Butter Oil and Butter Substitutes ...................
Dairy Mixtures ................................................
Blue Cheese ...................................................
Cheddar Cheese ............................................
American-Type Cheese ..................................
358,015 mt .....................................................
2,105 mt .........................................................
5,074,624 liters ..............................................
5,956,000 kilograms ......................................
2,060,875 kilograms ......................................
4,186,708 kilograms ......................................
28,042 kilograms ...........................................
185,042 kilograms .........................................
12,278,292 kilograms ....................................
7,294,708 kilograms ......................................
31,026,208 kilograms ....................................
4,685,625 kilograms ......................................
12,127,708 kilograms ....................................
23,336,917 kilograms ....................................
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ANNEX—QUANTITY-BASED SAFEGUARD TRIGGER
Product
Trigger level
Edam/Gouda Cheese .....................................
Italian-Type Cheese .......................................
Swiss Cheese with Eye Formation ................
Gruyere Process Cheese ...............................
Lowfat Cheese ...............................................
NSPF Cheese ................................................
Peanuts ..........................................................
Peanut Butter Paste .......................................
Raw Cane Sugar ............................................
6,660,467 kilograms ......................................
22,661,375 kilograms ....................................
35,579,750 kilograms ....................................
8,484,500 kilograms ......................................
4,227,750 kilograms ......................................
54,338,417 kilograms ....................................
56,596 mt .......................................................
2,841 mt .........................................................
1,297,851 mt ..................................................
1,096,324 .......................................................
95,785 mt .......................................................
36,661 mt .......................................................
8 mt ................................................................
59 mt ..............................................................
23 mt ..............................................................
170 mt ............................................................
80,886 mt .......................................................
12,067 mt .......................................................
531 mt ............................................................
660 mt ............................................................
9,239,208 kilograms ......................................
127,708 kilograms .........................................
22,708 kilograms ...........................................
6,757 mt .........................................................
78 mt ..............................................................
402 mt ............................................................
98 mt ..............................................................
795,143 liters .................................................
254,958 kilograms .........................................
94,717 kilograms ...........................................
20,042 kilograms ...........................................
0 mt ................................................................
0 mt ................................................................
485,971 kilograms .........................................
1,571,375 kilograms ......................................
8,982,620 kilograms ......................................
9,736,417 kilograms ......................................
0 kilograms ....................................................
5,125 kilograms .............................................
5,343 kilograms .............................................
80,208 kilograms ...........................................
Refined Sugar and Syrups .............................
Blended Syrups ..............................................
Articles Over 65% Sugar ................................
Articles Over 10% Sugar ................................
Sweetened Cocoa Powder .............................
Chocolate Crumb ...........................................
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb ................................
Infant Formula Containing Oligosaccharides
Mixes and Doughs .........................................
Mixed Condiments and Seasonings ..............
Ice Cream .......................................................
Animal Feed Containing Milk .........................
Short Staple Cotton ........................................
Harsh or Rough Cotton ..................................
Medium Staple Cotton ....................................
Extra Long Staple Cotton ...............................
Cotton Waste ..................................................
Cotton, Processed Not Spun .........................
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
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Agriculture, Forest Service, Kootenai
National Forest, in conjunction with
Montana Department of Environmental
Quality, will prepare an environmental
impact statement (EIS) to document the
analysis and disclose the environmental
impacts of the proposed action to permit
the construction, operation and
reclamation of the Montanore silver/
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located on public and private islands
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locatable mineral regulations 36 CFR
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evaluating all components of the
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Notices
[[Page 40685]]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
WTO Agricultural Safeguard Trigger Levels
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
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 trigger levels for
products, which may be subject to additional import duties under the
safeguard provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. Beginning
this year, the method of determining these triggers has been modified
to exclude trade from countries that are not subject to WTO safeguards.
This notice also includes the relevant period applicable for the
trigger levels on each of the listed products.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 14, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles R. Bertsch, Multilateral Trade
Negotiations Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, room 5524--South
Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-1022,
telephone at (202) 720-6278, or e-mail charles.bertsch@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 of the WTO Agreement on
Agriculture provides that additional import duties may be imposed on
imports of products subject to tarriffication 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,
Quantity Based Safeguard Trigger dated December 23, 1994. The Secretary
of Agriculture further delegated the duty to the Administrator of the
Foreign Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)). The Annex to this
notice contains the updated quantity trigger levels.
Beginning this year a change has been made in the method for
calculating these trigger levels. In previous years imports from all
sources were included in the three year average used as the basis of
the safeguard triggers. After consulting with the U.S. Trade
Representative's Office, it was determined that it is more appropriate
to exclude from these calculations imports from countries that are not
subject to the WTO safeguard duties. The following countries are not
subject to those duties as a result of Free Trade Agreements: Canada,
Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, Chile and Australia.
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 and
in the Secretary of Agriculture's Notice of Safeguard Action, published
in the Federal Register at 60 FR 427, January 4, 1995.
Notice: As provided in section 405 of the Uruguay Round Agreements
Act, consistent with Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture, the
safeguard quantity trigger levels previously notified are superceded by
the levels indicated in the Annex to this notice.
Dated: Issued at Washington, DC this 28 day of June, 2005.
A. Ellen Terpstra,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Annex.
The definitions of these products were provided in the Notice of
Safeguard Action published in the Federal Register, at 60 FR 427,
January 4, 1995.
Annex--Quantity-Based Safeguard Trigger
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Product Trigger level Period
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Beef.......................... 358,015 mt....... January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Mutton........................ 2,105 mt......... January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Cream......................... 5,074,624 liters. January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk.. 5,956,000 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Nonfat Dry Milk............... 2,060,875 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Dried Whole Milk.............. 4,186,708 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Dried Cream................... 28,042 kilograms. January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Dried Whey/Buttermilk......... 185,042 kilograms January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Butter........................ 12,278,292 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Butter Oil and Butter 7,294,708 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Substitutes. kilograms.
Dairy Mixtures................ 31,026,208 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Blue Cheese................... 4,685,625 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Cheddar Cheese................ 12,127,708 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
American-Type Cheese.......... 23,336,917 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
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Edam/Gouda Cheese............. 6,660,467 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Italian-Type Cheese........... 22,661,375 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Swiss Cheese with Eye 35,579,750 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Formation. kilograms.
Gruyere Process Cheese........ 8,484,500 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Lowfat Cheese................. 4,227,750 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
NSPF Cheese................... 54,338,417 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Peanuts....................... 56,596 mt........ April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006.
Peanut Butter Paste........... 2,841 mt......... January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Raw Cane Sugar................ 1,297,851 mt..... October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
1,096,324........ October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Refined Sugar and Syrups...... 95,785 mt........ Ocober 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
36,661 mt........ October 1,2005 to September 30, 2006.
Blended Syrups................ 8 mt............. October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
59 mt............ October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Articles Over 65% Sugar....... 23 mt............ October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
170 mt........... October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Articles Over 10% Sugar....... 80,886 mt........ October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
12,067 mt........ October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Sweetened Cocoa Powder........ 531 mt........... October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
660 mt........... October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Chocolate Crumb............... 9,239,208 January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
kilograms.
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb........ 127,708 kilograms January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Infant Formula Containing 22,708 kilograms. January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Oligosaccharides.
Mixes and Doughs.............. 6,757 mt......... October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
78 mt............ October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Mixed Condiments and 402 mt........... October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005.
Seasonings. 98 mt............ October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006.
Ice Cream..................... 795,143 liters... January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Animal Feed Containing Milk... 254,958 kilograms January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
Short Staple Cotton........... 94,717 kilograms. September 20, 2004 to September 19, 2005.
20,042 kilograms. September 20, 2005 to September 19, 2006.
Harsh or Rough Cotton......... 0 mt............. August 1, 2004 to July 31, 2005.
0 mt............. August 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006.
Medium Staple Cotton.......... 485,971 kilograms August 1, 2004 to July 31, 2005.
1,571,375 August 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006.
kilograms.
Extra Long Staple Cotton...... 8,982,620 August 1, 2004 to July 31, 2005.
kilograms. August 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006.
9,736,417
kilograms.
Cotton Waste.................. 0 kilograms...... September 20, 2004 to September 19, 2005.
5,125 kilograms.. September 20, 2005 to September 19, 2006.
Cotton, Processed Not Spun.... 5,343 kilograms.. September 11, 2004 to September 10, 2005.
80,208 kilograms. September 11, 2005 to September 10, 2006.
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