[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52293-52294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25217]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Export Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION: Notice of Application.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA''),
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has
received an application for an Export Trade Certificate of Review
(``Certificate''). This notice summarizes the proposed Certificate and
requests comments relevant to whether the Certificate should be issued.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Morton Schnabel, 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) (the ``Act'') authorizes the Secretary of
Commerce to issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. A Certificate
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. If the comments
include any privileged or confidential business information, it must be
clearly marked and a nonconfidential version of the comments
(identified as such) should be included. Any comments not marked
privileged or confidential business information will be deemed to be
nonconfidential. An original and five copies, plus two copies of the
nonconfidential version, 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 1104H, Washington, D.C. 20230. Information submitted by any person
is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5
U.S.C. 552). However, nonconfidential versions of the comments will be
made available to the applicant if necessary for determining whether or
not to issue the certificate. Comments should refer to this application
as ``Export Trade Certificate of Review, application number 99-00004.''
Summary of the Application: Applicant: USXT, Inc. (``USXT''), 9836
Remer Street, S. El Monte, CA 91733.
Contact: Sharleen Maldonado.
Telephone: (916) 568-6309.
Application No.: 99-00004.
Date Deemed Submitted: September 21, 1999.
Members (in addition to applicant): None.
The applicant has requested an expedited review.
USXT 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, including, but not limited to U.S. coal; water
treatment equipment, solid and medical waste treatment equipment, and
other environmental-related products; food processing equipment,
commodities and livestock; and educational materials and systems.
2. Services
All Services, including, but not limited to general management
services, engineering services, pollution abatement services, and other
services related to the Products.
3. Technology Rights
All intellectual property rights associated with Products or
Services, including, but not limited to: patents, trademarks, service
marks, trade names, copyrights, neighboring (related rights, trade
secrets, know-how, and sui generis forms of protection for databases
and computer programs.
4. Export Trade Facilitation Services (as They Relate to the Export of
Products, Services and Technology Rights)
Export Trade Facilitation Services, including but not limited to:
professional services in the areas of government relations and
assistance with state and federal export programs, foreign trade and
business protocol; consulting; market research and analysis; collection
of information on trade opportunities; marketing; negotiations; joint
ventures; shipping and export management; export licensing;
advertising; grantsmanship; documentation and services related to
compliance with customs requirements;
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insurance and financing; bonding; warehousing; export trade promotion;
trade show exhibitions and organization; organizational development;
management and labor strategies; transfer of technology,
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
USXT may:
1. Provide and/or arrange for the provision of Export Trade
Facilitation Services;
2. Engage in promotion and marketing activities and collect and
distribute information on trade opportunities in Mexico, Latin America,
and all other Export Markets;
3. Enter into exclusive and/or non-exclusive agreements with
distributors, foreign buyers, and/or sales representatives in Export
Markets;
4. Enter into exclusive or non-exclusive sales agreements with
suppliers, export intermediaries, or other persons for the sale of
Products and Services;
5. Enter into exclusive or non-exclusive licensing agreements with
suppliers, export intermediaries, or other persons for licensing
Technology Rights in Export Markets;
6. Allocate the sales, export orders and/or divide Export Markets
among suppliers, export intermediaries, or other persons for the sale
and maintenance of Products and Services;
7. Allocate the licensing of Technology Rights among Suppliers,
export intermediaries, or other persons;
8. Establish the price of Products and Services for sale in Export
Markets;
9. Establish the fee for licensing of Technology Rights in Export
Markets, as well as maintenance and financing commitments;
10. Negotiate, enter into, and/or manage licensing agreements and
long-term purchase arrangements involving the export of Technology;
11. Provide extensive intergovernmental services to facilitate the
grants and funding involvement of public and nongovernmental funding
sources for private sector benefits in terms of export activity for
goods and services.
Dated: September 22, 1999.
Morton Schnabel,
Director, Office of Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR Doc. 99-25217 Filed 9-27-99; 8:45 am]
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