[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-8493]
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[Federal Register: April 8, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Export Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION: Notice of issuance of an export trade certificate of review,
application No. 94-00001.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has issued an Export Trade
Certificate of Review to the Northeast Florida Export Trading Company,
Inc. (``NEFETC''). This notice summarizes the conduct for which
certification has been granted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Friedrich R. Crupe, Acting Director,
Office of Export Trading Company Affairs, International Trade
Administration, (202) 482-5131. This is not a toll-free number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act
of 1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to
issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. The regulations implementing
Title III are found at 15 CFR part 325 (1993).
The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA'') is issuing
this notice pursuant to 15 CFR 325.6(b), which requires the Department
of Commerce to publish a summary of a Certificate in the Federal
Register. Under Section 305(a) of the Act and 15 CFR 325.11(a), any
person aggrieved by the Secretary's determination may, within 30 days
of the date of this notice, bring an action in any appropriate district
court of the United States to set aside the determination on the ground
that the determination is erroneous.
Description of Certified Conduct
Export Trade
1. Products and Services
All products and services.
2. Export Trade Facilitation Services (as They Relate to the Export of
Products and Services)
All Export Trade Facilitation Services in connection with the
export of Products and Services, including consulting, international
market research, advertising, marketing, insurance, product research
and design, legal assistance, transportation, trade documentation,
freight forwarding, communication and processing of foreign orders,
warehousing, foreign exchange and financing.
Export Markets
The Export Markets include all parts of the world except the United
States (the fifty states of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) and the Republic of South
Africa.
Export Trade Activities and Methods of Operation
NEFETC may:
1. Require that exporters using its Export Trade Facilitation
Services sign exclusive dealing contracts allowing NEFETC to be their
sole Export Intermediary for sales to specified markets.
2. Require exporters using its Export Trade Facilitation Services
to export through the Jacksonville Port Authority Aviation and Marine
Facilities.
3. Sign exclusive distributorship agreements with other Export
Intermediaries which require such other Export Intermediaries not to
handle competing Products and Services.
4. Sign exclusive arrangements with its clients that require NEFETC
not to represent competing companies.
Definitions
Export Intermediary means a person who acts as a distributor, sales
representative, sales or marketing agent, or broker, or who performs
similar functions, including providing or arranging for the provision
of Export Trade Facilitation Services.
Terms and Conditions of Certificate
(a) NEFETC will not intentionally disclose, directly or indirectly,
to any supplier of Products and Services any information about any
other supplier's costs, production, capacity, inventories, domestic
prices, domestic sales, terms of domestic marketing or sale, or U.S.
business plans, strategies, or methods, unless such information is
already generally available to the trade or public.
(b) NEFETC will comply with requests made by the Secretary of
Commerce on behalf of the Secretary or the Attorney General for
information or documents relevant to conduct under the Certificate of
Review. The Secretary of Commerce will request such information or
documents when either the Secretary or the Attorney General believes
that the information or documents are required to determine that the
Export Trade, Export Trade Activities, and Methods of Operation of a
person protected by this Certificate of Review continue to comply with
the standards of section 303(a) of the Act.
A copy of this certificate will be kept in the International Trade
Administration's Freedom of Information Records Inspection Facility,
Room 4102, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: April 5, 1994.
Friedrich R. Crupe,
Acting Director, Office of Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR Doc. 94-8493 Filed 4-7-94; 8:45 am]
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