[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 18957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9552]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVES


Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); Solicitation of Public 
Comments Relating to the Reinstatement of Mauritania

agency: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

action: Notice and solicitation of public comment with respect to the 
eligibility of the Mauritania for the GSP program.

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summary: This notice announces the solicitation of comments related to 
the reinstatement of Mauritania as a beneficiary developing country 
under the GSP program. Comments should be submitted by May 17, 1999.

for further information contact: GSP Subcommittee, Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street, N.W., Room 518, 
Washington, D.C. 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971.

supplementary information: Mauritania has requested that it be 
reinstated as an eligible country under the GSP program. Mauritania was 
suspended on August 1, 1993 after a review by the Trade Policy Staff 
Committee determined that it did not provide for the right of 
association nor prohibit forced or compulsory labor.
    Interested parties are invited to submit comments regarding the 
eligibility of Mauritania for redesignation as a GSP beneficiary 
developing country. Submission of comments must be made in English in 
14 copies to the Chairman of the GSP Subcommittee, Trade Policy Staff 
Committee, and be received in Room 518 at 600 17th Street, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20508, no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, May 17, 1999. 
Except for submissions granted ``business confidential'' status 
pursuant to 15 CFR 2003.6, information and comments submitted regarding 
Mauritania will be subject to public inspection by appointment with the 
staff of the USTR Public Reading Room. For an appointment, please call 
Ms. Brenda Webb at 202/395-6186. If the document contains business 
confidential information, 14 copies of a nonconfidential version of the 
submission along with 14 copies of the confidential version must be 
submitted. In addition, the submission should be clearly marked 
``confidential'' at the top an bottom of each page of the document. The 
version which does not contain business confidential information (the 
public version) should also be clearly marked at the top and bottom of 
each page (either ``public version'' or ``non-confidential'').
Frederick L. Montgomery,
Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.
[FR Doc 99-9552 Filed 4-15-99; 8:45 am]
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