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FY 2011 Cocoa Powder TRQ Opens October 1

CBP has issued a memorandum announcing the fiscal year 2011 opening of the tariff rate quota on cocoa powder, as provided for in HTS Chapter 18, Additional U.S. Note 1. This TRQ opens on October 1, 2010, and the restraint level for all countries except Mexico is 2,313,000 kg.

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CBP's notice lists the related HTS Chapters 18 and 99 tariff numbers. Entries from Canada, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, and Oman are not subject to additional agricultural safeguard duties under HTS heading 9904, and should be presented as a type 02 entry using the high rate (over-quota) tariff number provided for in HTS Chapter 18 without the HTS Chapter 99 tariff number. Such entries must be reported through the quota module of ACS.

(QBT-10-565, dated 09/27/10)