[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40704-40708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-15361]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice of the Results of 
the 2003 Annual Product Review and 2002 Annual Country Practices 
Review, and Certain Previously-Deferred Product and Country Practice 
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 2003 GSP Annual Product Review and the 2002 
GSP Country Practices Review, the results of the 2003 De Minimis Waiver 
and Redesignation Reviews, the 2003 Competitive Need Limitation 
removals, and certain previously-deferred product and country practice 
decisions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The GSP Subcommittee, Office of the 
United States Trade Representative (USTR), Room F-220, 1724 F Street, 
NW., 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 2003 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 certain previously deferred product decisions is 
described in Annex II.
    The disposition of petitions reviewed in the 2002 Country Practices 
Review is described in Annex III. The Trade Policy Staff Committee 
previously decided not to initiate a full review of the country 
practice petitions submitted in the 2003 Annual GSP Review. 69 FR 8514 
(February 24, 2003).
    In the 2003 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Review, the GSP 
Subcommittee reviewed the appraised import values of each GSP-eligible 
article in 2003 to determine whether an article from a GSP beneficiary 
developing country exceeded the GSP Competitive Need Limitations 
(CNLs). De minimis waivers were granted to certain articles that 
exceeded the 50 percent import share CNL, but for which the aggregate 
value of the imports of that article was below the 2003 de minimis 
level of $16.5 million. Annex IV to this notice contains a list of the 
articles and countries granted de minimis waivers. A certain article 
from a GSP-eligible country that had previously exceeded one of the 
CNLs, but had fallen below the CNLs in 2003 ($110 million and 50 
percent of U.S. imports of the article), was redesignated for GSP 
eligibility. This article and country are listed in Annex V.
    Articles that exceeded one of the GSP CNLs in 2003, and that are 
newly excluded from GSP eligibility for specific countries, are listed 
in Annex VI.

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