[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 170 (Friday, September 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 45702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-21813]



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DEPARTMENT OF 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 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, DC. 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 95-00005.''

Summary of the Application

    Applicant: The Connell Company, 45 Cardinal Drive, Westfield, N.J. 
07090-1099.
    Application No.: 95-00005.
    Date Deemed Submitted: August 24, 1995.
    The Connell Company seeks a Certificate to cover the following 
specific Export Trade, Export Markets, and Export Trade Activities and 
Methods of Operations.
Export Trade

Products

    Japonica brown rice.

Export Trade Facilitation Services (As They Relate to the Export of 
Products)

    Communication and processing of export orders; inspection, 
fumigation and stevedoring; transportation; freight forwarding and 
trade documentation; insurance; billing of foreign buyers; collection 
of letters of credit and other financial instruments.

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

    To engage in Export Trade in the Export Markets, the Connell 
Company may:
    (i) Solicit orders from foreign purchasers;
    (ii) Receive 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 purchase 
and export;
    (iii) Confer from time to time, on a one-to-one basis, with 
individual Suppliers regarding a potential purchase by the Connell 
Company with regard to the quantities, price, delivery schedule, and 
other pertinent matters pertaining thereto;
    (iv) Advise individual Suppliers that the price paid to each 
Supplier for Products purchased by the Connell Company to be resold by 
the Connell Company to a specific foreign purchaser in a given time 
period is equivalent to the price paid to other Suppliers for Products 
to be sold; and ensure that such parity is maintained;
    (v) Allocate the amount of purchases of Products by the Connell 
Company from individual Suppliers for resale in the Export Markets; and 
advise individual Suppliers of the total quantity of Products being 
purchased by the Connell Company from all Suppliers for resale in the 
Export Markets and the quantity being purchased by the Connell Company 
from each individual Supplier for resale in the Export Markets;
    (vi) Enter into purchase agreements with one or more Suppliers for 
the purchase of Products in the United States, and sales agreements 
with one or more foreign purchasers for the sale of Products in the 
Export Markets;
    (vii) Refuse to purchase from one or more Suppliers for reasons the 
Connell Company deems fit; and
    (viii) As the single buyer of Products, coordinate schedules for 
delivery of Products to the dock among Suppliers; allocate dock space; 
allocate Products to various vessels, coordinate stevedoring from the 
inland trucks to the dock and from the dock to the vessels; arrange for 
inspection by both U.S. and foreign inspection services; arrange for 
fumigation of the Products; arrange for various documentation regarding 
the cargo; and provide for other Export Trade Facilitation services as 
they relate to the export of Products.

Definitions

    Supplier means a person that produces, provides, or sells Products.

    Dated: August 28, 1995.
Josephine H. Ludolph,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Service Industries and Finance.
[FR Doc. 95-21813 Filed 8-31-95; 8:45 am]
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