[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30064-30065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13865]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration, Commerce
Export Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION: Notice of Application.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs, International
Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an
application for an Export Trade Certificate of Review. This notice
summarizes the application and requests comments relevant to whether
the Certificate should be issued.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: W. Dawn Busby, 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 [[Page 30065]] Trade Certificates of Review. A Certificate
of Review protects the holder and the members identified in the
Certificate from state and federal government antitrust actions and
from private, treble damage antitrust actions for the export conduct
specified in the Certificate and carried out in compliance with its
terms and conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the Act and 15 CFR 325.6(a)
require the Secretary to publish a notice in the Federal Register
identifying the applicant and summarizing its proposed export conduct.
Request for Public Comments
Interested parties may submit written comments relevant to the
determination whether a Certificate should be issued. An original and
five (5) copies should be submitted no later than 20 days after the
date of this notice to: Office of Export Trading Company Affairs,
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, Room 1800H,
Washington, D.C. 20230. Information submitted by any person is exempt
from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
Comments should refer to this application as ``Export Trade Certificate
of Review, application number 95-00004.'' A summary of the application
follows.
Summary of the Application
Applicant: United Products of America, Inc. (``UPA, Inc.''), P.O. Box
3264, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22402
Contact: Kindra Rokhsaz, Telephone: (703) 891-2645
Application No.: 95-00004
Date Deemed Submitted: April 30, 1995, United Products of America,
Incorporated, (``UPA, Inc.'') seeks a Certificate to cover the
following specific Export Trade, Export Markets, and Export Trade
Activities and Methods of Operations.
Export Trade
1. Products
All products
2. Services
All Services
3. Technology Rights
Technology rights, including, but not limited to, patents,
trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, that relate to Products and
Services.
4. Export Trade Facilitation Services (as they relate to the Export of
Products, Services and Technology Rights)
Export Trade Facilitation Services include professional services in
the areas of export management, procurement management, market research
and analysis, feasibility analysis, customer and supplier location,
government relations and assistance with state and federal programs,
foreign trade and business protocol, consulting, collection of
information on trade opportunities, marketing, negotiations, joint
ventures, shipping, export licensing, advertising, documentation and
services related to compliance with customs requirements, insurance and
financing, trade show exhibitions, organizational development, business
management and labor strategies, technology transfer, transportation,
and facilitating the formation of shippers associations.
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, and the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands).
Export Trade Activities and Methods of Operation
With respect to the sale of Products and Services, Licensing and
Technology Rights and provisions of Export Trade Facilitation Services,
UPA, Inc. may:
1. Provide and/or arrange for the provision of Export Trade
Facilitation Services;
2. Engage in promotional and marketing activities and collect
information on trade opportunities in the Export Markets and distribute
such information to clients;
3. Enter into exclusive and/or non-exclusive licensing and/or sales
agreements with Suppliers for the export of Products, Services, and/or
Technology Rights in Export Markets;
4. Enter into exclusive and/or non-exclusive agreements with
distributors and/or sales representatives in Export Markets;
5. Allocate export sales or divide Export Markets among Suppliers for
the sale and/or licensing of Products, Services and/or Technology
Rights;
6. Allocate export orders among Suppliers;
7. Establish the price for Products, Services, and/or Technology Rights
for sale and/or licensing in Export Markets.
8. Negotiate, enter into, and/or manage licensing agreements for the
export of Technology Rights;
9. Enter into contracts for shipping;
10. Exchange information on a one-to-one basis with individual
Suppliers regarding inventories and near-term production schedules for
the purpose of determining the availability of Products for export and
coordinating exports with distributors.
Definitions
For the purposes of this certificate application, the following
term is defined:
1. ``Supplier'' means a person who produces, provides, licenses, or
sells a Product, Service, or Technology Right.
Dated: June 1, 1995.
W. Dawn Busby,
Director, Office of Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR Doc. 95-13865 Filed 6-6-95; 8:45 am]
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