[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 67829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33909]
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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool
and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the
Arab Republic of Egypt
Decembr 22, 1997.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).
ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing
limits.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen L. LeGrande, 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 or call (202) 927-5850. 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 for textile products, produced or
manufactured in Egypt and exported during the period January 1, 1998
through December 31, 1998 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 1998 limits. The limits for
Categories 338/339 and 448 are being reduced for carryforward applied
to the 1997 limits.
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 62 FR 66057, published on December 17, 1997).
J. Hayden Boyd,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements.
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
December 22, 1997.
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, 1998, 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 Egypt and exported during the twelve-month period
beginning on January 1, 1998 and extending through December 31,
1998, in excess of the following levels of restraint:
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Category Twelve-month restraint limit
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Fabric Group
218-220, 224-227, 313-317 and 326, as a 108,070,651 square meters.
group.
Sublevels within Fabric Group
218.................................... 2,508,000 square meters.
219.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
220.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
224.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
225.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
226.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
227.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
313.................................... 46,690,546 square meters.
314.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
315.................................... 29,858,700 square meters.
317.................................... 25,426,612 square meters.
326.................................... 2,508,000 square meters.
Levels not in a group
300/301................................ 10,018,058 kilograms of which
not more than 3,142,015
kilograms shall be in Category
301.
338/339................................ 2,700,785 dozen.
340/640................................ 1,183,745 dozen.
369-S \1\.............................. 1,498,989 kilograms.
448.................................... 18,018 dozen.
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\1\ Category 369-S: only HTS number 6307.10.2005.
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 1997 shall be
charged to the applicable category limits for that year (see
directive dated December 20, 1996) 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.
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 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1).
Sincerely,
J. Hayden Boyd,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements.
[FR Doc. 97-33909 Filed 12-29-97; 8:45 am]
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