[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56332-56333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27267]
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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Announcement of an Import Restraint Limit and Guaranteed Access
Level for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced
or Manufactured in El Salvador
October 13, 1999.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).
ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing
an import limit and guaranteed access level.
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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 limit and Guaranteed Access Level for textile
products in Categories 340/640, produced or manufactured in El Salvador
and exported 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 limit and guaranteed access
level for 2000.
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
October 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 and man-made
fiber textile products in Categories 340/640, produced or
manufactured in El Salvador and exported during the twelve-month
period beginning on January 1, 2000 and extending through December
31, 2000, in excess of 1,346,540 dozen.
The limit set forth above is subject to adjustment pursuant to
the provisions of the ATC and administrative arrangements notified
to the Textiles Monitoring Body.
Products in Categories 340/640 exported during 1999 shall be
charged to the applicable category limit for that year (see
directive dated December 14, 1998) to the extent of any unfilled
balance. In the event the limit established for that period has been
exhausted by previous entries, such products shall be charged to the
limit 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, a guaranteed access level of 1,000,000
dozen is being established for properly certified textile products
in Categories 340/640 assembled in El Salvador from fabric formed
and cut in the United States which are re-exported to the United
States from El Salvador during the period beginning on January 1,
2000 and extending through December 31, 2000:
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 January 6, 1995 (60 FR 2740), as amended, shall be
denied entry unless the Government of El Salvador authorizes the
entry and any charges to the appropriate specific limit. 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.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has
determined that these actions fall within the foreign affairs
exception of the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1).
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Sincerely,
Troy H. Cribb,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc. 99-27267 Filed 10-18-99; 8:45 am]
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