[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 22, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3016-3017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1356]


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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS


Denial of Participation in the Special Access Program

January 16, 2003.
AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs suspending 
participation in the Special Access Program.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Stetson, International Trade 
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, (202) 482-3400.

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 Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) 
has determined that Thompson and Thompson, LLP (now operating as 
Progressive Services, Inc.) has violated the requirements for 
participation in the Special Access Program and has suspended 
Progressive Services, Inc. from participation in the Program for

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the six-month period, September 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
    Through the letter to the Commissioner of Customs published below, 
CITA directs the Commissioner to prohibit entry of products under the 
Special Access Program by or on behalf of Progressive Services, Inc. 
during the period from September 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003, and 
to prohibit entry by or on behalf of Progressive Services, Inc. under 
the Special Access Program of products manufactured from fabric 
exported from the United States during that period.
    Requirements for participation in the Special Access Program are 
available in Federal Register notice 63 FR 16474, published on April 3, 
1998.

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

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

January 16, 2003.

Commissioner of Customs,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.
    Dear Commissioner: The purpose of this directive is to notify 
you that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements 
has suspended Progressive Services, Inc. from participation in the 
Special Access Program for the period from September 1, 2002 through 
February 28, 2003. You are therefore directed to prohibit entry of 
products under the Special Access Program by or on behalf of 
Progressive Services, Inc. during the period September 1, 2002 
through February 28, 2003. You are further directed to prohibit 
entry of products under the Special Access Program by or on behalf 
of Progressive Services, Inc. manufactured from fabric exported from 
the United States during the period September 1, 2002 through 
February 28, 2003.
    Sincerely,
D. Michael Hutchinson,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile 
Agreements.
[FR Doc.03-1356 Filed 1-21-03; 8:45 am]
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