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2012 TRQ for Butter Substitutes Opens Jan 3

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2012 tariff rate quota for butter substitutes provided for in Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 14 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 3, 2012 with a low-duty quantity of 6,080,500 kg. Imports described in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 14 are subject to agriculture licensing.

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(See CBP’s notice for list of applicable HTS numbers as well as special instructions on (i) when no license is used or presented, (ii) exclusions for Mexico; and (iii) high-duty reporting instructions for Canada, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, and Oman.)

(QBT-11-533, dated 10/28/11)