[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: 15CFR2011.104]



[Page 481-482]

 

                  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]