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Federal Register Notices
[Federal Register: September 3, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 171)]
[Notices]
[Page 51437-51438]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr03se08-24]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Assessment of Fees for Dairy
Import Licenses for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Import
Quota Year
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces that the fee
to be charged for the 2009 tariff-rate quota (TRQ)
year for each license issued to a person or firm
by the Department of Agriculture authorizing the
importation of certain dairy
articles, which are subject to tariff-rate
quotas set forth in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) of the United States, will be
$150.00 per license.
DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jorge Martinez,
Dairy Import Licensing Program,
Import and Trade Support Programs Division, STOP
1021, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC
20250-1021 or telephone at (202) 720-9439 or
e-mail at
Jorge.Martinez@fas.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Dairy
Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation
promulgated by the Department of Agriculture and
codified at 7 CFR 6.20-6.37 provides for the
issuance of licenses to import certain
dairy articles that are subject to TRQs
set forth in the HTS. Those dairy
articles may only be entered into the United
States at the in-quota TRQ tariff rates by or
the account of a person or firm to whom such
licenses have been issued and only in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the regulation.
Licenses are issued on a calendar year basis, and each
license authorizes the license holder to import
a specified quantity and type of dairy
article from a specified country of origin. The
use of
licenses by the license holder to import
dairy articles is monitored by the
Daiiy Import Licensing Program, Import and Trade
Support Programs Division, Foreign Agricultural
Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.
The regulation at 7 CFR 6.33(a) provides that a fee will be
charged for each license issued to a person or
firm by the Licensing Authority in order to
reimburse the Department of Agriculture for the
costs of administering the licensing system
under this regulation.
The regulation at 7 CFR 6.33(a) also provides that the
Licensing Authority will announce the annual fee
for each license and that such fee will be set
out in a notice to be published in the Federal
Register. Accordingly, this notice sets out the
fee for the licenses to be issued for the 2009
calendar year.
Notice
The total cost to the Department of Agriculture of
administering the licensing system for 2009 has
been estimated to be $360,000, and the estimated
number of licenses expected to be issued is
2,400. Of the total cost, $235,000 represents
staff and supervisory costs directly related to
administering the licensing system, and $125,000
represents other miscellaneous costs, including
travel, postage, publications, forms, Internet
software development, and ADP system
contractors.
Accordingly, notice is hereby given that the fee for each
license issued to a person or firm for the 2009
calendar year, in accordance with 7 CFR 6.33,
will be $150 per license.
Issued at Washington, DC the 9th day of July,
2008.
Ronald Lord,
Licensing Authority.
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