[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 246 (Friday, December 21, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 75608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30736]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the emergency provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Interim Procedures for Considering Requests from the Public 
under the Textile and Apparel Safeguard Provision of the United States-
Korea Free Trade Agreement.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a currently 
approved collection).
    Burden Hours: 56.
    Number of Respondents: 14.
    Average Hours per Response: 4 hours for a Request; and 4 hours for 
a Comment.
    Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, Section 331 through Section 
338 of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act 
(the ``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions, 
provided for in Article 4.1 of the United States-Korea Free Trade 
Agreement (the ``Agreement''), which entered into force on March 15, 
2012. This safeguard mechanism applies when, as a result of the 
reduction or elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a 
Korean textile or apparel article is being imported into the U.S. in 
such increased quantities, in absolute terms or relative to the 
domestic market for that article, and under such conditions as to cause 
serious damage or actual threat thereof to a U.S. industry producing a 
like or directly competitive article. In these circumstances, Article 
4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) suspend any further reduction 
in the rate of duty provided for under Annex 2-B of the Agreement in 
the duty imposed on the article; or (b) increase duties on the imported 
article from Korea to a level that does not exceed the lesser of the 
prevailing U.S. normal trade relations (``NTR'')/most-favored-nation 
(``MFN'') duty rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in 
effect on the day before the Agreement enters into force.
    The Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the Act 
provides that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile 
Agreements (CITA) will issue procedures for requesting such safeguard 
measures, for making its determinations under Section 332(a) of the 
Act, and for providing relief under Section 332(b) of the Act.
    CITA must collect information in order to determine whether a 
domestic textile or apparel industry is being adversely impacted by 
imports of these products from Korean, thereby allowing CITA to take 
corrective action to protect the viability of the domestic textile or 
apparel industry, subject to Section 332(b) of the Act.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante. (202) 395-3647.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 or via email at 
[email protected].
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 395-5167 or via 
the Internet at [email protected].

    Dated: December 17, 2012.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-30736 Filed 12-20-12; 8:45 am]
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