[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: 15CFR2011.202]



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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 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]