[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 57 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15615-15616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7233]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of application to amend certificate.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA''), 
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has 
received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review

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(``Certificate''). This notice summarizes the proposed amendment and 
requests comments relevant to whether the amended Certificate should be 
issued.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Morton Schnabel, Director, Office of 
Export Trading Company Affairs, International Trade Administration by 
phone at (202) 482-5131 (this is not a toll-free number) or E-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act 
of 1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to 
issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. A Certificate of Review 
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 an amended 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 in writing to: Office of Export Trading 
Company Affairs, International Trade Administration, Department of 
Commerce, Room 1104H, Washington, D.C. 20230, or transmitted by E-mail 
to [email protected]. 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 97-3A003.''
    The Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. 
(``AARQ'') original Certificate was issued on January 21, 1998 (63 FR 
4223, January 28, 1998) and lastly amended on September 4, 1998 (63 FR 
53013 October 2, 1998). A summary of the application for an amendment 
follows.

Summary of the Application

    Applicant: The Association for the Allocation of Rice Quotas, Inc. 
(``AARQ''), c/o Thomas Ferrara, AC HUMKO CORP., 7171 Goodlett Farms 
Parkway, Cordova, Tennessee 38018-4909.
    Contact: M. Jean Anderson, Esquire; Telephone: (202) 682-7217.
    Application No.: 97-3A003.
    Date Deemed Submitted: March 10, 2000.
    Proposed Amendment: AARQ seeks to amend its Certificate to:
    1. Add the following companies as new ``Members'' of the 
Certificate within the meaning of section 325.2(1) of the Regulations 
(15 CFR 325.2(1)): ADM Latin, Inc., Decatur, Illinois, and ADM Rice, 
Inc., Tarrytown, New York (subsidiaries of Archer Daniels Midland 
Company); AFE (USA), Inc., Houston, Texas; California Commodity 
Traders, LLC, Sacramento, California; California Pacific Rice Milling, 
Ltd., Arbuckle, California; Family & Sons, Inc., Miami, Florida; Far 
West Rice, Inc., Durham, California; Glencore Ltd., Stamford, 
Connecticut (a subsidiary of Glencore International AG), for the 
activities of Glencore Grain Division and Glencore Ltd.'s subsidiary, 
LaGrain International Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Incomar Texas, Ltd. 
and its subsidiary, Gulf Rice Arkansas, LLC, Houston, Texas; 
International Grain Brokerage, LLC, Yuba City, California; JFC 
International Inc., San Francisco, California (a subsidiary of Kikkoman 
Corp.); Kitoku America, Inc., Davis, California (a subsidiary of Kitoku 
Co., Ltd.); Mermentau Rice, Inc., Mermentau, Louisiana; Nishimoto 
Trading Company, Ltd., Los Angeles, California (a subsidiary of 
Nishimoto Trading Company, Ltd. (Japan)); PS International, Ltd., 
Durham, North Carolina; Texana Rice, Inc., Houston, Texas; Wehah Farm, 
Inc., dba Lundberg Family Farms, Richvale, California;
    2. Delete the following companies as ``Members'' of the Certificate 
within the meaning of section 325.2(1) of the Regulations (15 CFR 
325.2(1)): Broussard Rice Mill, Inc.; Cargill, Inc., for the activities 
of its division, Cargill Rice Milling; Cargill Rice, Inc.; and Gulf 
Rice Arkansas, Inc.;
    3. Change the listings of the current Members as follows: ``AC 
HUMKO, Corp. for the activities of AC HUMKO Rice Specialties, Brinkley 
Rice Milling Company, and El Campo Rice Milling Company, Dallas, 
Texas'' should be amended to read ``AC HUMKO Corp., Cordova, 
Tennessee;'' ``Busch Agricultural Resources, Inc., St. Louis, 
Missouri'' and ``Pacific International Rice Mills, Inc., Woodland, 
California'' should be amended to read ``Busch Agricultural Resources, 
Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, and its subsidiary, Pacific International 
Rice Mills, Inc., Woodland, California;'' ``Continental Grain Company, 
New York, New York'' should be amended to read ``ContiGroup Companies, 
Inc., New York, New York;'' ``Gulf Rice Milling, Inc.'' and ``Gulf 
Pacific Rice Co., Inc.'' should be amended to read ``Gulf Pacific, 
Inc., and its subsidiaries, Gulf Pacific Rice Co., Inc., and Gulf Rice 
Milling, Inc., Houston, Texas;'' and ``The Connell Company for the 
activities of Connell Rice & Sugar Co. and Connell International Co.'' 
should be amended to read ``The Connell Company, Westfield, New 
Jersey.''; and
    4. Amend the portion of its Certificate entitled ``Export Markets'' 
to reflect that, because of the dissolution of the Trust Territory of 
the Pacific Islands and the formation of several independent nations 
therefrom, export markets that will serve as the basis for distribution 
of bid proceeds may include the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

    Dated: March 20, 2000.
Morton Schnabel,
Director, Office of Export Trading Company Affairs.
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