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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 231 / Monday, December 6, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
immediately preceding the payment they were, as determined by the Secretary, a domestic nationally recognized association established and operating for the promotion of pima cotton for domestic use in textile and apparel goods.
Subpart BAgriculture Wool Trust
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a Agriculture Wool Trust1
Establishment. The Agriculture Wool Trust has been established to provide funding for payments under this subpart.
2 Purpose. The purpose of the Agriculture Wool Trust is to reduce the injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on wool fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of wool fabric.
3 Funding availability. Not more than $30,000,000 will be available annually for payments authorized under this subpart.
4 Definitions. As used in this subpart:
Agriculture Wool Trust means the Agriculture Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund.
CCC means the Commodity Credit Corporation.
FAS means the Foreign Agricultural Service.
HTS means the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
TRQ means Tariff Rate Quota.
U.S. means the United States of America.
b Provisions common to this subpart1 Affidavits. FAS shall annually, not later than February 15 of the year of the applicable payment, make affidavits available on the FAS
website. Affidavits must be submitted in accordance with the instructions provided on the FAS website.
2 Filing deadline. Any person filing an affidavit under this subpart for a particular year must file the affidavit not later than March 1 of such year.
3 Affirmation. By submitting an affidavit under this subpart, an applicant is affirming that all information contained in the application is complete and correct and that the information does not contain a false claim, statement, or representation.
4 Document retention. All persons receiving a payment under this subpart must maintain all pertinent documentation for three years after the year of receipt of the payment.
5 False statements. Persons providing false or fraudulent claims or
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making materially false statements or representations are subject to civil or criminal penalties pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
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6 Confidential information. Specific business information provided in affidavits that is marked business confidential will be protected from disclosure to the full extent permitted by law.
7 Review of affidavits. Affidavits will be reviewed to determine whether they are complete and responsive to the content and form of affidavit requirements in this subpart.
8 Finality of determination by the Secretary. A determination by the Secretary about a payment under this subpart shall be final and is not subject to appeal or protest.
9 Timing of payments. A payment for which a person is eligible under this subpart will be disbursed not later than April 15 of the applicable year.
10 Proration and sequester.
Payments covered by this subpart will be subject to proration in the event that insufficient funds exist in the Agriculture Wool Trust during the year of the payment, and will be subject to sequester, if required by law.
11 HTS subheadings. All references to subheadings of the HTS in this subpart are to the subheadings as described in the HTS in 2014.
1471.11 Payments to manufacturers of certain worsted wool fabrics.

a Definitions. In this section the following definitions apply:
Eligible person means a manufacturer in the U.S. of qualifying worsted wool fabric during the calendar year immediately preceding the payment and during each of calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Qualifying worsted wool fabric means a worsted wool fabric containing at least 85% by weight worsted wool of the kind described in subheading 9902.51.11 or 9902.51.15 of the 2014 HTS that, during the calendar year immediately preceding the payment and during each of calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001, was manufactured by an eligible person in the United States.
b Distribution of funds. From amounts in the Agriculture Wool Trust, CCC will annually make payments to eligible persons that manufactured qualifying worsted wool fabric as provided in paragraph b1 or 2 of this section.
1 Payments for production under subheading 9902.51.11 of the HTS. A
total of $2,666,000 will be allocated annually among eligible persons covered by this paragraph b1 on the basis of the percentage of each eligible
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persons total production actual production, not estimates of qualifying worsted wool fabric that is of the kind described in subheading 9902.51.11 of the HTS for each of the calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001 in relation to the total production of such fabric by all eligible persons who qualify for payments under this paragraph b1 for each of the calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
2 Payments for production under subheading 9902.51.15. A total of $2,666,000 will be allocated annually among eligible persons covered by this paragraph b2 on the basis of the percentage of each eligible persons total production actual production, not estimates of qualifying worsted wool fabric that conforms in composition to subheading 9902.51.15 of the HTS for each of the calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001 in relation to the total production of such fabric by all eligible persons who qualify for payments under this paragraph b2 for each of the calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
c Annual affidavit1 In general.
An eligible person applying for a payment under this section shall comply with all applicable reporting requirements of this section and of 1471.10.
2 Specific business information. An eligible person shall annually report the actual dollar value and the actual quantity linear yards of qualifying worsted wool fabric that was manufactured in the calendar year immediately preceding the payment and for each of calendar years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
3 Manufacturing of wool. When reporting the annual dollar value and quantity of the qualifying wool fabric that was manufactured, an eligible person may either have manufactured the qualifying worsted wool on its own behalf or had another person manufacture the qualifying worsted wool fabric, provided the eligible person owned the qualifying worsted wool fabric at the time of manufacture.
1471.12 Refund of duties paid on imports of certain wool products.

a Eligible wool. Eligible wool under the Duty Refund program means imported wool yarn of the kind described in section 505 of the Trade and Development Act of 2000 Public Law 106200 May 18, 2000.
b Payments1 Eligibility. Persons eligible for a Duty Refund payment are manufacturers who, in the year immediately preceding the payment, were actively engaged in manufacturing wool as determined by FAS, and in calendar years 2000, 2001, and 2002

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