[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 180 (Friday, September 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50495-50496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24244]
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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Announcement of Import Restraint Limits and Guaranteed Access
Levels for Certain Cotton, Wool and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products
Produced or Manufactured in the Dominican Republic
September 13, 1999.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).
ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing
limits and guaranteed access levels.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Naomi Freeman, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of
Commerce, (202) 482-4212. For information on the quota status of these
limits, refer to the Quota Status Reports posted on the bulletin boards
of each Customs port, call (202) 927-5850, or refer to the U.S. Customs
website at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov. For information on embargoes
and quota re-openings, call (202) 482-3715.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as
amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as
amended.
The import restraint limits and guaranteed access levels for
textile products, produced or manufactured in the Dominican Republic
and exported
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during the period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000 are based
on limits notified to the Textiles Monitoring Body pursuant to the
Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC).
In the letter published below, the Chairman of CITA directs the
Commissioner of Customs to establish the 2000 limits and guaranteed
access levels.
A description of the textile and apparel categories in terms of HTS
numbers is available in the CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel Categories
with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (see Federal
Register notice 63 FR 71096, published on December 23, 1998).
Information regarding the 2000 CORRELATION will be published in the
Federal Register at a later date.
Requirements for participation in the Special Access Program are
available in Federal Register notice 63 FR 16474, published on April 3,
1998.
Troy H. Cribb,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
September 13, 1999.
Commissioner of Customs,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.
Dear Commissioner: Pursuant to section 204 of the Agricultural
Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order 11651 of
March 3, 1972, as amended; and the Uruguay Round Agreement on
Textiles and Clothing (ATC), you are directed to prohibit, effective
on January 1, 2000, entry into the United States for consumption and
withdrawal from warehouse for consumption of cotton, wool and man-
made fiber textile products in the following categories, produced or
manufactured in the Dominican Republic and exported during the
twelve-month period beginning on January 1, 2000 and extending
through December 31, 2000, in excess of the following levels of
restraint:
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Category Restraint limit
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338/638................................ 1,041,869 dozen.
339/639................................ 1,239,822 dozen.
340/640................................ 1,072,547 dozen.
342/642................................ 754,776 dozen.
347/348/647/648........................ 2,567,466 dozen of which not
more than 1,356,395 dozen
shall be in Categories 647/
648.
351/651................................ 1,285,800 dozen.
433.................................... 22,436 dozen.
442.................................... 76,173 dozen.
443.................................... 139,360 numbers.
444.................................... 76,173 numbers.
448.................................... 39,241 dozen.
633.................................... 157,374 dozen.
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The limits set forth above are subject to adjustment pursuant to
the provisions of the ATC and administrative arrangements notified
to the Textiles Monitoring Body.
Products in the above categories exported during 1999 shall be
charged to the applicable category limits for that year (see
directive dated November 5, 1998) to the extent of any unfilled
balances. In the event the limits established for that period have
been exhausted by previous entries, such products shall be charged
to the limits set forth in this directive.
Also pursuant to the ATC, and under the terms of the Special
Access Program, as set forth in 63 FR 16474 (April 3, 1998),
effective on January 1, 2000, you are directed to establish
guaranteed access levels for properly certified textile products in
the following categories which are assembled in the Dominican
Republic from fabric formed and cut in the United States and re-
exported to the United States from the Dominican Republic during the
period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000:
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Category Guaranteed access level
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338/638................................ 1,150,000 dozen.
339/639................................ 1,150,000 dozen.
340/640................................ 1,000,000 dozen.
342/642................................ 1,000,000 dozen.
347/348/647/648........................ 8,050,000 dozen.
351/651................................ 1,000,000 dozen.
433.................................... 21,000 dozen.
442.................................... 65,000 dozen.
443.................................... 50,000 numbers.
444.................................... 30,000 numbers.
448.................................... 40,000 dozen.
633.................................... 60,000 dozen.
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Any shipment for entry under the Special Access Program which is
not accompanied by a valid and correct certification in accordance
with the provisions of the certification requirements established in
the directive of February 25, 1987 (52 FR 6595), as amended, shall
be denied entry unless the Government of the Dominican Republic
authorizes the entry and any charges to the appropriate specific
limits. Any shipment which is declared for entry under the Special
Access Program but found not to qualify shall be denied entry into
the United States.
In carrying out the above directions, the Commissioner of
Customs should construe entry into the United States for consumption
to include entry for consumption into the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has
determined that these actions fall within the foreign affairs
exception of the rulemaking provisions of U.S.C.553(a)(1).
Sincerely,
Troy H. Cribb,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc.99-24244 Filed 9-16-99; 8:45 am]
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