[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76477-76478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31316]
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Extension of Deadlines
for Filing Petitions for the 2011 Annual GSP Product and Country
Practices Review
AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice of extension of the deadline for submission of petitions
from the public.
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SUMMARY: The deadlines for submission of all petitions for
consideration as part of the 2011 Annual GSP Product and Country
Practices Review are extended to December 30, 2011.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 1, 2011, a notice was published
in the Federal Register (76 FR 67531) announcing the initiation of the
2011 Annual GSP Product and Country Practices Review and setting out
the deadlines for the submission of petitions to modify the list of
products that are eligible for duty-free treatment under the GSP
program and to modify the GSP status of certain GSP beneficiary
developing countries because of country practices. The deadline for
submission of country practice petitions and for submission of product
petitions, except for those requesting competitive need limitation
(CNL) waivers, was December 5, 2011. The deadline for submission of
petitions requesting CNL waivers was December 16, 2011. This notice
extends the deadlines for the submission of all petitions for the 2011
Annual Review to 5 p.m., December 30, 2011. Decisions on which of the
petitions that are submitted are accepted for review will be announced
in the Federal Register at later dates.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tameka Cooper, GSP Program, Office of
the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971; the fax
number is (202) 395-9674, and the email address is [email protected].
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Public versions of all documents relating to the 2011 Annual Review
will be made available for public viewing in docket USTR-2011-0015 at
www.regulations.gov upon completion of processing and no later than
approximately two weeks after the due date.
William D. Jackson,
Deputy Assistant, U.S. Trade Representative for the Generalized System
of Preferences and Chair of the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy
Staff Committee, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
[FR Doc. 2011-31316 Filed 12-6-11; 8:45 am]
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