[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 57 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15616-15617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7235]


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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. This 
notice summarizes the conduct for which certification is sought 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) or E-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act 
of

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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 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, or transmit by E-mail at 
[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 00-00001.'' A 
summary of the application follows.

Summary of the Application

    Applicant: North America Export Trading, LLC (``NAXT''), 28746 
Calle Vista, Laguna Niguel, California 92677. Contact: Sharleen 
Maldonado, President, Telephone: (562) 434-5408.
    Application No.: 00-00001.
    Date Deemed Submitted: March 13, 2000.
    Members (in addition to applicant): None.
    North America Export Trading, LLC 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.
    2. Services--All services.
    3. Technology Rights--Technology Rights, including, but not limited 
to, patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets that relate to 
Products and Services.
    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; 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).
    The proposed Export Trade Certificate of Review would extend 
antitrust protection to NAXT to conduct the following export trade 
activities:
    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 allowable;
    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 export orders among Suppliers;
    7. Allocate the sales, export order and/or divide Export Markets, 
among Suppliers, Export Intermediaries, or other persons for the sale 
and maintenance of Products and Services;
    8. Allocate the licensing of Technology Rights among Suppliers, 
Export Intermediaries, or other persons;
    9. Establish the price of Products and Services for sale in Export 
Markets;
    10. Establish the fee for licensing of Technology Rights in Export 
Markets, as well as maintenance and financing commitments;
    11. Negotiate, enter into, and/or manage licensing agreements and 
long-term purchase arrangements involving the export of Technology;
    12. Provide extensive intergovernmental services to facilitate the 
grants and funding involvement of public and nongovernmental funding 
sources for private sector benefits in term of export activity for 
goods and services.

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