[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68335-68336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31630]


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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS


Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton and 
Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Pakistan

December 1, 1999.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing 
limits.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ross Arnold, International Trade 
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, (202) 482-4212. For information on the quota status of these 
limits, refer to the Quota Status Reports posted on the bulletin boards 
of each Customs port, call (202) 927-5850, or refer to the U.S. Customs 
website at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov. For information on embargoes 
and quota re-openings, call (202) 482-3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as 
amended.

    The import restraint limits for textile products, produced or 
manufactured in Pakistan and exported during the period January 1, 2000 
through December 31, 2000 are based on limits notified to the Textiles 
Monitoring Body pursuant to the Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and 
Clothing (ATC).
    A description of the textile and apparel categories in terms of HTS 
numbers is available in the CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel Categories 
with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (see Federal 
Register notice 63 FR 71096, published on December 23, 1998). 
Information regarding the 2000 CORRELATION will be published in the 
Federal Register at a later date.
Troy H. Cribb,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
December 1, 1999.

Commissioner of Customs,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

    Dear Commissioner: Pursuant to section 204 of the Agricultural 
Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order 11651 of 
March 3, 1972, as amended; and the

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Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), you are 
directed to prohibit, effective on January 1, 2000, entry into the 
United States for consumption and withdrawal from warehouse for 
consumption of cotton and man-made fiber textile products in the 
following categories, produced or manufactured in Pakistan and 
exported during the twelve-month period beginning on January 1, 2000 
and extending through December 31, 2000, in excess of the following 
limits:

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                 Category                   Twelve-month restraint limit
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Specific limits
219.......................................  9,940,726 square meters.
226/313...................................  140,701,964 square meters.
237.......................................  483,480 dozen.
239pt. \1\................................  2,088,022 kilograms.
314.......................................  7,229,618 square meters.
315.......................................  91,783,066 square meters.
317/617...................................  38,850,753 square meters.
331/631...................................  2,960,960 dozen pairs.
334/634...................................  285,570 dozen.
335/635...................................  441,006 dozen.
336/636...................................  580,177 dozen.
338.......................................  5,635,894 dozen.
339.......................................  1,643,441 dozen.
340/640...................................  773,570 dozen of which not
                                             more than 290,088 dozen
                                             shall be in Categories 340-
                                             D/640-D \2\.
341/641...................................  870,265 dozen.
342/642...................................  430,736 dozen.
347/348...................................  961,683 dozen.
351/651...................................  386,784 dozen.
352/652...................................  966,961 dozen.
359-C/659-C \3\...........................  1,740,531 kilograms.
360.......................................  6,213,382 numbers.
361.......................................  7,224,862 numbers.
363.......................................  52,422,074 numbers.
369-F/369-P \4\...........................  2,900,884 kilograms.
369-R \5\.................................  13,537,461 kilograms.
369-S \6\.................................  885,661 kilograms.
613/614...................................  27,860,280 square meters
615.......................................  29,638,590 square meters.
625/626/627/628/629.......................  91,155,065 square meters of
                                             which not more than
                                             45,577,534 square meters
                                             shall be in Category 625;
                                             not more than 45,577,534
                                             square meters shall be in
                                             Category 626; not more than
                                             45,577,534 square meters
                                             shall be in Category 627;
                                             not more than 9,429,835
                                             square meters shall be in
                                             Category 628; and not more
                                             than 45,577,534 square
                                             meters shall be in Category
                                             629.
638/639...................................  529,768 dozen.
647/648...................................  1,004,420 dozen.
666-P \7\.................................  858,484 kilograms.
666-S \8\.................................  4,544,917 kilograms.
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\1\ Category 239pt.: only HTS number 6209.20.5040 (diapers).
\2\ Category 340-D: only HTS numbers 6205.20.2015, 6205.20.2020,
  6205.20.2025 and 6205.20.2030; Category 640-D: only HTS numbers
  6205.30.2010, 6205.30.2020, 6205.30.2030, 6205.30.2040, 6205.90.3030
  and 6205.90.4030.
\3\ Category 359-C: only HTS numbers 6103.42.2025, 6103.49.8034,
  6104.62.1020, 6104.69.8010, 6114.20.0048, 6114.20.0052, 6203.42.2010,
  6203.42.2090, 6204.62.2010, 6211.32.0010, 6211.32.0025 and
  6211.42.0010; Category 659-C: only HTS numbers 6103.23.0055,
  6103.43.2020, 6103.43.2025, 6103.49.2000, 6103.49.8038, 6104.63.1020,
  6104.63.1030, 6104.69.1000, 6104.69.8014, 6114.30.3044, 6114.30.3054,
  6203.43.2010, 6203.43.2090, 6203.49.1010, 6203.49.1090, 6204.63.1510,
  6204.69.1010, 6210.10.9010, 6211.33.0010, 6211.33.0017 and
  6211.43.0010.
\4\ Category 369-F: only HTS number 6302.91.0045; Category 369-P: only
  HTS numbers 6302.60.0010 and 6302.91.0005.
\5\ Category 369-R: only HTS number 6307.10.1020.
\6\ Category 369-S: only HTS number 6307.10.2005.
\7\ Category 666-P: only HTS numbers 6302.22.1010, 6302.22.1020,
  6302.22.2010, 6302.32.1010, 6302.32.1020, 6302.32.2010 and
  6302.32.2020.
\8\ Category 666-S: only HTS numbers 6302.22.1030, 6302.22.1040,
  6302.22.2020, 6302.32.1030, 6302.32.1040, 6302.32.2030 and
  6302.32.2040.

    The limits set forth above are subject to adjustment pursuant to 
the provisions of the ATC and administrative arrangements notified 
to the Textiles Monitoring Body.
    Products in the above categories exported during 1999 shall be 
charged to the applicable category limits for that year (see 
directive dated November 3, 1998) to the extent of any unfilled 
balances. In the event the limits established for that period have 
been exhausted by previous entries, such products shall be charged 
to the limits set forth in this directive.
    In carrying out the above directions, the Commissioner of 
Customs should construe entry into the United States for consumption 
to include entry for consumption into the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico.
    The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has 
determined that these actions fall within the foreign affairs 
exception of the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1).
    Sincerely,
Troy H. Cribb,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc. 99-31630 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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