[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR2011.102]

[Page 460-461]
 
                  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. 2011.102  Definitions.

    Unless the context otherwise requires, for the purpose of this 
subpart, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned below.
    (a) Additional U.S. Note 5 means additional U.S. Note 5 to chapter 
17 of the HTS, including any amendments thereto.
    (b) Appropriate customs official means the district or area Director 
of the U.S. Customs Service, his or her designee, or any other customs 
officer of similar authority and responsibility for the customs district 
in which the port of entry is located.
    (c) Certificate of quota eligibility or certificate means a 
certificate issued by the Secretary to a foreign country that, when duly 
executed and issued by the certifying authority of such foreign country, 
authorizes the entry into the

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United States of sugar produced in such country.
    (d) Certifying authority means a person designated by the government 
of a foreign country who is authorized to execute and issue certificates 
of quota eligibility on behalf of such foreign country.
    (e) Enter or Entry means to enter or withdraw from warehouse, or the 
entry or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption in the customs 
territory of the United States.
    (f) Foreign country means, for any quota period, any foreign country 
or area with which an agreement or arrangement described in section 
2011.106 is in effect for that quota period and to which the United 
States Trade Representative has allocated a particular quantity of the 
quota.
    (g) HTS means the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
    (h) Licensing Authority means the Team Leader, Import Quota 
Programs, Import Policies and Trade Analysis Division, Foreign 
Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, or his or her 
designee.
    (i) Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, 
association, estate, trust, or other legal entity, and, wherever 
applicable, any unit, instrumentality, or agency of a government, 
domestic or foreign.
    (j) Quota means the tariff-rate quota on imports of sugar provided 
in additional U.S. Note 5.
    (k) Quota period means the period October 1 of a calendar year 
through September 30 of the following calendar year.
    (l) Raw value has the meaning provided in additional U.S. Note 5.
    (m) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture or any officer or 
employee of the Department of Agriculture to whom the Secretary has 
delegated the authority or to whom the authority hereafter may be 
delegated to act in the Secretary's place.
    (n) Sugar means sugars, syrups, and molasses described in 
subheadings 1701.11.10, 1701.12.10, 1701.91.10, 1701.99.10, 1702.90.10, 
and 2106.90.44 of the HTS, but does not include for any foreign country 
for any quota period specialty sugars as defined in subpart B of this 
part if a quantity of the quota for that quota period has been reserved 
for specialty sugars and an amount of that quota quantity has been 
allocated to that country.

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