Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

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title: "Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers"
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section_name: "Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers"
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#  Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

**AGENCY:**

Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

**ACTION:**

Notice.

The Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), today accepted and began a review of a petition for trade adjustment assistance under the FY 2011 program, filed by the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association on behalf of American lobster ( *Homarus americanus* ) fishermen who catch and market their lobster in Massachusetts. The FAS Administrator will determine within 40 days whether or not increasing imports of American lobster contributed importantly to a greater than 15-percent decrease in the production value of lobster compared to the average of the three preceding marketing years. If a determination is affirmative, fishermen who land and market American lobster in Massachusetts will be eligible to apply to the Farm Service Agency for free technical assistance and cash benefits.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Program Staff, Office of Trade Programs, USDA, at (202) 720-0638 or (202) 690-0633, or by *e-mail at: [email protected];* or visit  the TAA for Farmers' *Web site: http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa.*

Dated: July 22, 2010.

John D. Brewer,

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.