[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64022-64023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30662]


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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS


New Transshipment Charges for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber 
Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the People's Republic of 
China

December 7, 2001.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs charging 
transshipments to 2001 limits.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 10, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy Unger, International Trade 
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, (202) 482-4212.

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.
    In a notice published in the Federal Register on September 11, 1996 
(61 FR 47892), CITA announced that Customs would be conducting 
investigations of transshipments of textile products produced in China 
and exported to the United States. Based on investigations by the U.S. 
Customs Service (Customs), Customs has determined that textile products 
in certain categories, produced or manufactured in China and entered 
into the United States, were entered in circumvention of the bilateral 
agreement effected by the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of February 
1, 1997, and extended October 31, 2000. Consultations were held between 
the Governments of the United States and the People's Republic of China 
on this matter on October 17-18, 2001 and on December 6-7, 2001. 
Pursuant to Paragraph 13(E) of the bilateral MOU, the United States may 
charge three times the amounts transshipped to China's negotiated 
quantitative limits under certain conditions. Certain shipments made in 
1998 of categories 338-S/339-S, 348, 638, 639, and 648 are eligible for 
triple charging under these provisions. Accordingly, these shipments 
will be triple charged to China's quotas. In the letter published 
below, the Chairman of CITA directs the Commissioner of Customs to 
charge the amounts listed in the letter below to the 2001 quota levels.
    A description of the textile and apparel categories in terms of HTS 
numbers is available in the

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CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel Categories with the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (see Federal Register notice 65 FR 82328, 
published on December 28, 2000). Information regarding the availability 
of the 2002 CORRELATION will be published in the Federal Register at a 
later date.

D. Michael Hutchinson,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile 
Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

December 7, 2001.

Commissioner of Customs,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.
    Dear Commissioner: To facilitate implementation of the Bilateral 
Textile Memorandum of Understanding dated February 1, 1997, between 
the Governments of the United States and the People's Republic of 
China, you are directed, effective on December 10, 2001, to charge 
the following amounts to the following categories for the 2001 
restraint period (see directive dated December 20, 2000):

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                 Category                       Amounts to be charged
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334.......................................  245 dozen.
338/339...................................  11,532 dozen.
338-S/339-S...............................  23,562 dozen.
340.......................................  13,073 dozen.
340-Z.....................................  15,270 dozen.
345.......................................  1,374 dozen.
347/348...................................  174,287 dozen.
352.......................................  104,022 dozen.
638/639...................................  123,373 dozen.
647.......................................  1,096 dozen.
648.......................................  18,388 dozen.
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    The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has 
determined that these actions fall within the foreign affairs 
exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C.553(a)(1).
D. Michael Hutchinson,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile 
Agreements.
[FR Doc. 01-30662 Filed 12-7-01; 10:35 am]
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