[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR2011.102]



[Page 480-481]

 

                  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]