[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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