Dairy Imports: Issues Related to Chocolate Products

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO studied the possible circumvention of agricultural quotas on the dry whole milk contained in imported chocolate block of 10 pounds or more, focusing on: (1) changes in the volume of imported chocolate block in recent years, and the relationship of the dry whole milk contained in the block to domestic dry whole milk production and the dairy price-support program; (2) U.S. Customs Service efforts to enforce dairy limits in imported chocolate blocks; (3) the status of investigations of whether the imported chocolate block interfered with the dairy price-support program; and (4) the use of foreign trade zones to bring imported chocolate block and dry whole milk into the United States.