[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR2011.104]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
      CHAPTER XX--OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
 
PART 2011--ALLOCATION OF TARIFF-RATE QUOTA ON IMPORTED SUGARS, SYRUPS 
AND MOLASSES--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart A--Certificate of Quota Eligibility
 
Sec. 2011.104  Waiver.

    (a) General. The Secretary may waive, with respect to individual 
shipments, any or all of the requirements of this subpart if he or she 
determines that a waiver will not impair the proper operation of the 
sugar quota system, that it will not have the effect of modifying the 
allocation of sugar made pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (b) 
of additional U.S. Note 5, and that

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such waiver is justified by unusual, unavoidable, or otherwise 
appropriate circumstances. Such circumstances include, but are not 
limited to, loss or destruction of the certificate, unavoidable delays 
in transmittal of the certificate to the port of entry, and clerical 
errors in the execution or issuance of the certificate.
    (b) Request for waiver. The request for a waiver must be made to the 
Secretary in writing. The request need not follow any specific format. 
However, the request should set forth in detail all pertinent 
information relating to the shipment in question and the basis upon 
which the waiver should be granted.
    (c) Issuance of waiver. The Secretary shall notify, in writing, the 
applicant for the waiver and the Secretary of the Treasury of any waiver 
granted under the authority of this section. The Secretary may attach 
any terms, conditions or limitations to the waiver which he or she 
determines are appropriate.

[55 FR 40648, Oct. 4, 1990, as amended at 61 FR 26784, May 29, 1996]