G/AG/N/USA/140  
 
20 August  2020 
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Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  14 August  2020, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of the United States  of America . The notification concerns the use of special safeguard provisions 
(Table  MA:5)  during the calendar year  2017 . 
 
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MARKET ACCESS: UNITED STATES  OF AMERICA  
REPORTING PERIOD : CALENDAR YEAR  2017 
Annual summary of special safeguard actions taken  
Tariff item number(s)  Description of 
product(s)  Volume -
based 
invoked  Whether volume -based action taken 
during period  Price -
based 
invoked  Whether price -based action taken during 
period  Note  
From  To 
1 2 3 4  
02013080  Bovine meat cuts, 
boneless, fresh or chld.     
 9,177   
02023080  Bovine meat cuts, 
boneless, frozen     
 18  
04015025  Milk and cream, not 
concentrated, not 
sweetened, fat content 
o/10% but not o/45%     
 158  
04021050  Milk & cream in powder 
granules/other solid forms 
fat content by weight not 
exceeding 1.5% 
whether/not sweetened     
 6,048   
04029990  Milk & cream (except 
condensed milk), 
concentrated in non -solid 
forms, sweetened     
 30,597   
04031050  Yogurt, in dry form, 
whether or not flavored or 
containing add fruit or 
cocoa     
 592  
04051020  Butter, Nesoi     
 361  
04059020  Fats and oils derived from 
milk, other than butter or 
dairy spreads     
 2,880    
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- 3 - Tariff item number(s)  Description of 
product(s)  Volume -
based 
invoked  Whether volume -based action taken 
during period  Price -
based 
invoked  Whether price -based action taken during 
period  Note  
From  To 
1 2 3 4  
04061028  Fresh Cheddar cheese     
 10  
04061058  Fresh Italian -type cheese     
 303  
04061078  Fresh cheese, and 
substitutes for 
cheese,nesoi, w/0.5% or 
less by wt. of butterfat     
 5  
04061088  Fresh Cheese, NSPF     
 4,430   
04062053  Romano, reggiano, 
provolone, provoletti, 
sbrinz and goya, made 
from cow's milk, grated or 
powdered     
 31  
04063028  Cheddar cheese, 
processed, not grated or 
powdered     
 500  
04063075  Processed cheese procured 
from edam or gouda, not 
grated/powdered     
 442  
04063091  Processed cheese (incl. 
mixtures), nesoi, w/cow's 
milk, not grated or 
powdered     
 174  
04064070  Blue-veined cheese, nesoi     
 22,879   
04069012  Cheddar cheese, nesoi     
 202  
04069018  Edam and gouda cheese, 
nesoi    
 183  
04069032  Goya cheese from cow's 
milk, not in original loaves, 
nesoi    
 15   
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- 4 - Tariff item number(s)  Description of 
product(s)  Volume -
based 
invoked  Whether volume -based action taken 
during period  Price -
based 
invoked  Whether price -based action taken during 
period  Note  
From  To 
1 2 3 4  
04069042  Romano, Reggiano, 
Parmesan, Provolone, and 
Provoletti cheese, nesoi, 
from cow's milk     
 3,763   
04069048  Swiss or Emmentaler 
cheese with eye formation, 
nesoi    
 89  
04069074  Cheeses & subst. for 
cheese (incl. mixt.), nesoi, 
w/ or from blue -veined 
cheese     
 216  
04069097  Cheeses & subst. for 
cheese (incl. mixt.), nesoi, 
w/cows milk, w/butterfat 
o/0.5% by wt     
 14,799   
17011350  Cane sugar, raw, solid, w/o 
added flavor or color     
 91  
17019158  Cane/beet sugar & pure 
sucrose, refined, solid, 
w/added flavoring, o/10% 
by wt. sugar     
 6  
17019950  Cane/beet sugar & pure 
sucrose, refined, solid, w/o 
added coloring or flavoring     
 419,324   
17049058  Sugar confectionery nesoi, 
w/o cocoa, dairy products     
 19,960   
19019036  Margarine cheese     
 1  
19019062  Malt Extract; Food Products 
Of Flour, Meal, Etc. With 
Cocoa (if Any) Under 40% 
And Malt Products With 
Cocoa (if Any) Under 50%, 
Others     
 1,690   
19019065  Malt Extract; Food Products 
Of Flour, Meal, Etc. With 
Cocoa (if Any) Under 40% 
And Milk Or Cream 
Products With Cocoa (if 
Any) Under 50%, Others     
 2,484    
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- 5 - Tariff item number(s)  Description of 
product(s)  Volume -
based 
invoked  Whether volume -based action taken 
during period  Price -
based 
invoked  Whether price -based action taken during 
period  Note  
From  To 
1 2 3 4  
20081160  Peanuts, otherwise 
prepared or preserved, 
nesoi    
 2,290   
21011258  Preparation ov 10% sugar 
w/ basis of extract, essence 
or concentrate or w/ basis 
of coffee     
 5,516   
21012058  Preparation ov 10% sugar 
w/basis of 
extract/essence/concentrat
e or w/basis of tea or mate     
 9  
21039078  Mixed condiments and 
mixed seasonings     
 4,409   
21050020  Ice cream, whether or not 
containing cocoa     
 193  
21050040  Edible ice except ice cream     
 1,218   
21069009  Food preps, nesoi, n/o 
5.5% b'fat, mixed w/other 
ingredi., if o/16% milk 
solids by wt, capable of 
being further proc, bulk, 
nesoi    
 79,136   
21069097  Food preps, nesoi, n/o 10% 
milk solids, o/10% sugar     
 765  
22029028  Non-alcoholic milk -based 
drinks (except chocolate)     
 1,279   
22029928  Nonalcoholic Beverages, 
Others (including Milk -
based Drinks)     
 875,187   
Tariff item numbers in column 1 correspond to HS 2017 Nomenclature.  
Figures in column 4 correspond to affected quantities. Unit of measure is KG except for 21050020 Ice cream, whether or not containing cocoa (liters).  
 
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