[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: 15CFR2011.202]

[Page 464]
 
                  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 B_Specialty Sugar
 
Sec. 2011.202  Definitions.

    Unless the context otherwise requires, for the purpose of this 
subpart, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned below.
    (a) Appropriate Customs official means the District or Area Director 
of Customs, 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.
    (b) Certificate means a specialty sugar certificate issued by the 
Certifying Authority permitting the entry of specialty sugar.
    (c) Certifying Authority means the Team Leader, Import Quota 
Programs, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
or his or her designee.
    (d) Date of entry means the date on which the appropriate Customs 
entry form is properly executed and deposited, together with any 
estimated duties and special import fees and any related documents 
required by law or regulation to be filed with such form at the time of 
entry with the appropriate Customs Officer.
    (e) Importer means any person in the United States importing 
specialty sugar into the United States.
    (f) Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, 
association, estate, trust, or other legal entity, and, wherever 
applicable, any unit, instrumentality, or agency, of a government, 
domestic or foreign.
    (g) Quota means the tariff-rate quota on imports of sugar provided 
in additional U.S. Note 5 to chapter 17 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States.
    (h) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture or any officer of 
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 his place.
    (i) Specialty sugar means brown slab sugar (also known as slab sugar 
candy), pearl sugar (also known as perl sugar, perle sugar, and nibs 
sugar), vanilla sugar, rock candy, demerara sugar, dragees for cooking 
and baking, fondant (a creamy blend of sugar and glucose), ti light 
sugar (99.2% sugar with the residual comprised of the artificial 
sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame K), caster sugar, golden syrup, 
ferdiana granella grossa, golden granulated sugar, muscovado, molasses 
sugar, sugar decorations, sugar cubes, and other sugars, as determined 
by the United States Trade Representative, that would be considered 
specialty sugar products within the normal commerce of the United 
States, all of which in addition:
    (1) Are sugars, syrups, or molasses described in subheading 
1701.11.10, 1701.12.10, 1701.91.10, 1701.99.10, 1702.90.10, or 
2106.90.44 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States,
    (2) Are the product of a specialty sugar source country, and
    (j) Specialty sugar source country means any country or area to 
which the United States Trade Representative has allocated an amount of 
the quantity reserved for the importation of specialty sugars under 
additional U.S. Note 5 to chapter 17 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States.

[55 FR 40648, Oct. 4, 1990, as amended at 61 FR 26785, May 29, 1996]