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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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