[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31348-31349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14548]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Customs Service
Dates and Draft Agenda of the Ninth Session of the Scientific
Subcommittee of the World Customs Organization
AGENCY: U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Publication of the dates and draft agenda of the ninth session
of the Scientific Subcommittee of the World Customs Organization.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the dates and draft agenda for the next
session of the Scientific Subcommittee of the World Customs
Organization.
DATES: June 7, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ira Reese, Office of Laboratories and
Scientific Services, U.S. Customs Service (202-927-1060).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The United States is a contracting party to the International
Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
(``Harmonized System Convention''). The Harmonized Commodity
Description and Coding System (``Harmonized System''), an international
nomenclature system, forms the core of the U.S. tariff, the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States. The Harmonized System Convention
is under the jurisdiction of the World Customs Organization (``WCO'')
(established as the Customs Cooperation Council).
Article 6 of the Harmonized System Convention establishes a
Harmonized System Committee (``HSC''). The HSC is composed of
representatives from each of the contracting parties to the Harmonized
System Convention. The HSC's responsibilities include issuing
classification decisions on the interpretation of the Harmonized
System. Those decisions may take the form of published tariff
classification opinions concerning the classification of an article
under the Harmonized System or amendments to the Explanatory Notes to
the Harmonized System. The HSC also considers amendments to the legal
text of the Harmonized System. The HSC meets twice a year in Brussels,
Belgium.
The HSC is often assisted in its technical work by the Scientific
Subcommittee (``SSC''). The SSC is an advisory body of the WCO on
questions involving technical matters. Generally, its members are
representatives from the customs laboratories of WCO members. The SSC
assists the HSC by providing technical advice on questions referred to
it by the HSC. The SSC usually meets once a year in Brussels, Belgium.
This year, however, it will meet twice (as it already met last
January). The next session of the SSC will be its ninth, and it will be
held from June 26 to June 30, 1995.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, represented by the U.S.
Customs Service, will represent the U.S. government at the sessions of
the SSC.
Set forth below is the draft agenda for the next session of the
SSC. Copies of available agenda-item documents may be obtained from the
above-listed individual. Comments on agenda items may be directed to
that same individual.
Lyal V.S. Hood,
Acting Director, Office of Laboratories and Scientific Services.
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Attachment: Attachment A
Draft Agenda for the Ninth Session of the Scientific Sub-Committee
From: Monday, 26 June 1995 (10 a.m.)
To: Friday, 30 June 1995
I. Adoption of the Agenda
Draft Agenda...................................... Doc. 39.433
II. Technical Questions
1. Classification of quartz derived from acid- and Doc. 39.453
heat-treated alaskite ores.
2. Possible amendments to the Nomenclature to Doc. 39.435
clarify the classification of butyl titanate.
3. Scope of the term ``sugars''................... Doc. 39.436
4. Classification of certain vitamin-based Doc. 39.438
preparations.
5. Possible amendments to the Explanatory Note to Doc. 39.439
heading 29.22.
6. Analytical methods and criteria for Doc. 39.440
distinguishing between concentrated and normal
fruit juices.
7. Possible amendments to the Explanatory Note to Doc. 39.441
heading 29.38: glycosides.
8. Classification of ``Gamma Grip'' and ``Gamma Hi- Doc. 39.452
Tech''.
9. Divergent classification concerning certain INN Doc. 39.379
products and pharmaceutical intermediates.
10. Classification and chemical nomenclature of Doc. 39.446
certain toxic/dangerous chemicals controlled by
the Chemical Weapons Convention.
11. Scope of the term ``derivatives''............. Doc. 39.444
12. Draft Recommendation and possible amendments Doc. 39.445
to the Explanatory Notes concerning narcotic
drugs, and psychotropic substances and their
precursors.
13. Amendments to the Explanatory Notes concerning Doc. 39.454
the chemical names.
III. General Questions
1. Draft Sections of the Customs Laboratory Guide:
a. Operation activities (I) of a standard Doc. 39.359
Customs laboratory.
b. Operation activities (II) of a standard Doc. 39.448
Customs laboratory.
c. Laboratory equipment, instruments and Doc. 39.449
apparatus.
d. Illicit Drug analysis...................... Doc. 39.450
2. Technical Assistance regarding the
Establishment or Improvement of Customs
Laboratories in Developing Countries:
Demand for Technical Assistance by Developing Doc. 39.451
Countries.
[FR Doc. 95-14548 Filed 6-13-95; 8:45 am]
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