| Title: | Delay of Trade Action in European Community (EC)-Beef Hormones Dispute |
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| Date: | 2009-03-19 |
| To: | abi,acep |
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This message provides information regarding modifications to the action taken by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in connection with the World Trade Organization authorization in the European Community (EC)-Beef Hormones dispute. The USTR is delaying by one month the imposition of additional duties on a modified list of EU products that was published by Federal Register Notice (FRN) dated January 23, 2009. The additional duties were scheduled to go into effect on March 23, 2009. Under the delay, announced in the FRN dated March 18, 2009, the additional duties are now scheduled to go into effect on April 23, 2009.
The decision by the USTR to delay the action will not affect the products that were scheduled for deletion from the list of products subject to additional duties. The removal of duties on items deleted from the product list under the January 23, 2009 FRN modifications shall be effective with respect to products that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after March 23, 2009 (see Annex I Parts A, B, and C, to FRN dated March 13, 2009). Any merchandise covered under Part D of Annex I that is admitted to a U.S. foreign-trade zone on or after March 23, 2009 must be admitted as “privileged foreign status” as defined in 19 CFR 146.41.
More information can be found at the following web page: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/priority_trade/agriculture/beef/
CSMS #09-000287