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2012 TRQ for Chocolate & Low-Fat Chocolate Crumb Opens Jan 3

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memorandum announcing that the 2012 tariff rate quota for chocolate and low-fat chocolate crumb provided for in Chapter 18, Additional U.S. Note 3 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 3, 2012.

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The aggregate low-duty quantity is 2,122,834 kg, with the below-listed countries having the following minimum access amounts:

Ireland1,700,988 kg
United Kingdom421,845 kg
New Zealand1 kg

(See CBP's notice for list of applicable HTS numbers as well as special instructions on (i) low-duty exclusions from Mexico; and (ii) high-duty reporting instructions for Canada, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, and Oman; (iii) etc.)

(QBT-11-538, dated 10/28/11)