WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/USA/74 
16 August 2010 
 (10-4346) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
  The following submission, dated 2 August 2010, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States .  The notification concerns the use of special safeguard provisions 
(Table MA:5)  for the calendar year 2009 . 
 
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 United States price based safeguards are invoke d automatically on a shipment-by-shipment 
basis.  Importers who enter goods under an ove r-quota tariff line are required to declare which 
pre-established price range is applicable to their pr oduct.  If there is a safeguard duty associated with 
that price range, the additional charge is assessed .  Entries where the safeguard duties were assessed 
during the reporting period are summarized in this notification.  While not required by the format, 
information on affected quantities is provided for illustrative purposes.  Multiple transactions 
involving the same product have been aggregated for the purposes of this notification.  
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MARKET ACCESS:  United States  
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar year 2009 
 
Annual summary of special safeguard actions taken 
 
Tariff item number Description of  product Whether volume-based action 
taken during period Whether price-based action 
taken during period 
 
Affected quantities 
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0201308090 Bovine meat cuts, boneless, fresh or chld., over-quota None 68 kg. 
0202308000 Frozen beef, boneless, over-quota None 23 kg. 
0401302500 Other milk and cream, n/ov 45% fat , over-quota None 254,817 l. 
          0402105000 Milk powder under 1.5% fat, over-quota None 3 kg. 
0402215000 Dried milk 3-35% fat over-quota None 25 kg. 
0402917000 Evaporated milk, airtight cont., over-quota None 176 kg. 0402994500 Sweetened condensed milk, airti ght cont., over-quota None 3 kg. 
0402995500 Other sweetened conde nsed milk, over-quota  None  100 kg. 
0403905500 Dried sour cream 6- 35% fat, over-quota  None 100 kg. 
0403909500 Dried fermented milk, over-quota  None 8 kg. 
0404101500 Modified whey, over-quota None 525 kg. 
0405102000 Butter, Nesoi, over-quota None 192,180 kg. 
0405902020 Anhydrous Milk Fat, Nesoi, over-quota None 2,248 kg. 0405902040 Fats And Oils Derived From Milk, Nesoi, over-quota  None 2,520 kg. 
0406101800 Fresh blue cheese, over-quota None 9 kg. 
0406102800 Fresh Cheddar cheese, over-quota None 712 kg. 0406103800 Fresh American type cheese, over-quota None 15 kg. 0406105800 Fresh Italian type cheese, over-quota None 10 kg. 0406108800 Fresh cheese, NSPF, over-quota None 44 kg. 
0406302800 Processed Cheddar cheese, over-quota None  1,384 kg.  
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0406303800 Processed Colby, over-quota None 100 kg. 
0406306700 Processed mixtures of Chedda r cheese, over-quota None 720 kg. 
0406309100 Processed cheese, NSPF, over-quota None 33 kg. 0406407000 Other blue cheese, over-quota None 20,727 kg. 
0406901200 Other Cheddar cheese, over-quota None 118 kg. 0406901800 Other Edam/Gouda, over-quota None 4 kg. 
0406904200 Other Italian type chees e, over-quota None 193 kg. 
0406904800 Swiss/Emmenthaler cheese with eye form ation, Nesoi, over-quota None 87 kg. 
0406908800 Other mixtures of Edam/Gouda cheese, over-quota None 34 kg. 
0406909700  Other mixtures of cheese, NSPF, over-quota  None 3,218 kg.
 
1701115000  Raw cane sugar, over-quota None 50kg. 
1701915800  Flavoured sugar over 10% sugar, over-quota None 14kg. 
1701995010 Specialty sugars, not flavored or colored, over-quota None 164kg. 
1701995020 Refined cane or beet s ugar, not flavored or colo red, over-quota None 144 kg. 
1701995030 Cane or beet sugar, not raw, not fla vored or colored, over-quota None 857 kg. 
1701995090 Cane or beet sugar, not raw, no t flavored or colored, over-quota None 44,000 kg. 
1806202600  Bulk chocolate under 21% milk, over-quota None                           20 kg. 
1806203600  Bulk lowfat chocolate under 21% milk, over-quota None 786kg. 
1806328000  Block cocoa preparations over 21% milk, over-quota None 6kg. 
1806901800  Other chocolate under 21% milk, over-quota None 62 kg. 
1806902000  Other chocolate over 21% milk, over-quota None 81 kg. 
1806902800  Other lowfat chocolate under 21% milk, over-quota None 4kg. 
1806903900  Other cocoa syrups, over-quota None 7 kg. 
1806905900  Other cocoa preps over 10% sugar, over-quota None  1,920 kg.  
1901104000  Other infant preparations, over 10% milk, over-quota None  363 kg.  
1901108500  Other infant preparations, under 10% milk, over-quota None 89 kg. 
1901205000 Mixes/doughs under 25% fat, over-quota None  490 kg.  
1901904300 Other dairy preparations over 10% milk, over-quota None 6,910 kg.  
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1901904700 Other dairy preparations under 10% milk, over-quota None 22kg. 
2008116000 Otherwise prepared peanut s, over-quota None 16,741 kg. 
2101125800 Coffee preps, >10% sugar, over-quota None 26,875 kg. 
2105002000 Ice cream, over-quota None 1,186 l. 
2105004000 Edible ice containing milk, over-quota None 14,810 kg. 
2106900900 Lowfat dairy mixtures, over-quota None 33 kg. 
2106906600 Other dairy preparations over 10 % milk, over-quota None 8,412,442 kg. 
2106908700 Other dairy preparations under 10% milk, over-quota None 9 kg. 2106909700 Other food preps , >10% sugar  under 10% milk, over-quota None 111 kg. 
2202902800 Milk based drinks, over-quota None 554,587 kg. 
2309902890 Other animal feed over 10% milk, over-quota None 4,082 kg. 
 
 
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