[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 128 (Thursday, July 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40012-40018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16937]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); Notice of the Results of 
the 2002 Annual Product Reviews, 2001 Special Three Country Review, 
GSP-AGOA 2001 Review, and Previously Deferred Product Decisions

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 
    This notice announces the disposition of the product petitions 
accepted for review in the combined 2001/2002 GSP Annual Review and the 
Special Three Country GSP Review for Argentina, the Philippines, and 
Turkey, the results of the 2002 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation 
Review, the 2002 competitive need limitation removals, the 2001 GSP-
AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) Review, and other previously 
deferred product decisions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The GSP Subcommittee, Office of the 
United States Trade Representative (USTR), 1724 F Street, NW., Room F-
220, Washington, DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971 and 
the facsimile number is (202) 395-9481.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GSP program provides for the duty-free 
importation of designated articles when imported from beneficiary 
developing countries. The GSP program is authorized by title V of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461, et seq.), as amended (the ``Trade 
Act''), and is implemented in accordance with Executive Order 11888 of 
November 24, 1975, as modified by subsequent Executive Orders and 
Presidential Proclamations.
    In the combined 2001/2002 Annual Review, the GSP Subcommittee of 
the Trade Policy Staff Committee reviewed petitions to change the 
product coverage of the GSP. The disposition of those petitions is 
described in Annex I of this notice.
    The disposition of petitions reviewed in the 2001 Special Three 
Country Review for Argentina, the Philippines, and Turkey is described 
in Annex II.
    In the 2002 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Review, the GSP 
Subcommittee reviewed the appraised import values of each GSP-eligible 
article in 2002 to determine whether an article from a GSP beneficiary 
developing country exceeded one of the GSP Competitive Need Limitations 
(CNLs). De minimis waivers were granted to certain articles which 
exceeded the 50 percent import share CNL, but for which the aggregate 
value of the imports of that article was below the 2002 de minimis 
level of $16 million. Annex III to this notice contains a list of the 
articles and countries granted de minimis waivers. Certain articles 
from GSP-eligible countries that had previously exceeded one of the 
CNLs, but had fallen below the CNLs in 2002 ($105 million and 50 
percent of U.S. imports of the article), were redesignated for GSP 
eligibility. These articles are listed in Annex IV to this notice.
    Articles that exceeded one of the GSP CNLs in 2002, and that are 
newly excluded from GSP eligibility, are listed in Annex V to this 
notice.
    The disposition of petitions in the GSP-AGOA 2001 Canned Pears and 
Manganese Metal Review is described in Annex VI.
    The disposition of a product petition on which a decision in a 
previous review was deferred is described in Annex VII.

Steven Falken,
Executive Director GSP, Chairman, GSP Subcommittee.
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