[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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