[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 130 (Thursday, July 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36952-36955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17259]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Trade Policy Staff Committee, Generalized System of Preferences 
(GSP); Notice of the Results of the 1998 Annual Review and 1999 De 
Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Reviews; Designation of Gabon and 
Mongolia as Beneficiary Developing Countries and the Reinstatement of 
Mauritania

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice of GSP changes.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the disposition of the petitions 
accepted for review in the 1998 Annual Review of the GSP program, the 
results of the 1999 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Reviews, 
exclusions for products that exceeded the GSP competitive need 
limitations (CNLs), and the designation of Gabon and Mongolia as 
beneficiary developing countries and the reinstatement of Mauritania.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GSP Subcommittee, Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street, NW, Room 518, Washington, 
DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    The GSP is provided for in Title V of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 2461-2465) (the 1974 Act). The President's decisions 
concerning the GSP changes addressed in this notice are contained in 
Proclamation No. 7206 of June 30, 1999. Unless otherwise specified, the 
changes in the GSP program addressed in this notice are intended to be 
effective with respect to goods entered on or after July 1, 1999, 
assuming an extension of the termination date in section 505 of the 
1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2465).
    In the 1998 Annual Review, the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy 
Staff Committee accepted for review one petition to withdraw GSP 
eligibility for a certain article and fifteen petitions for CNL 
waivers. The disposition of these petitions is indicated in Annex I of 
this notice.
    In the 1999 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Reviews, the 
appraised import values during 1998 of each GSP-eligible article were 
reviewed to determine whether particular articles from particular GSP 
beneficiary developing countries exceeded the GSP CNLs. De Minimis 
waivers were granted to certain articles which exceeded the 50 percent 
import share CNL, but for which the aggregate value of the imports of 
that article was below the 1998 de minimis level of $14 million. Annex 
II to this notice contains a list of these articles.
    Certain articles that had previously exceeded GSP CNLs but that had 
fallen below the CNLs in 1998 ($85 million and 50 percent of U.S. 
imports of the article) were redesignated for GSP eligibility. These 
articles are listed in Annex II to this notice.
    Articles that exceeded GSP CNLs in 1998, and that are newly 
excluded from GSP eligibility, are listed in Annex IV to this notice.
    The President has designated Gabon and Mongolia as beneficiary 
developing countries and reinstated Mauritania.
Frederick L. Montgomery,
Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

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