[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 131 (Monday, July 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39843-39849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-13592]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice of the Results of 
the 2004 Annual Product Review

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 2004 GSP Annual Product Review (including 
self-initiated product reviews) and the results of the 2004 De Minimis 
Waiver, the 2004 Redesignation, and the 2004 Competitive Need 
Limitation Reviews.

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 2004 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.
    In the 2004 De Minimis Waiver and Redesignation Review, the GSP 
Subcommittee evaluated the appraised import values of each GSP-eligible 
article in 2004 to determine whether an article from a GSP beneficiary 
developing country exceeded the GSP Competitive Need Limitations 
(CNLs). Articles that exceeded one of the GSP CNLs in 2004, and that 
are newly excluded from GSP eligibility for a specific country, are 
listed in Annex II. Certain articles from GSP-eligible countries that 
had previously exceeded one of the CNLs, but had fallen below the CNLs 
in 2004 ($115 million and 50 percent of U.S. imports of the article), 
were redesignated for GSP eligibility. These articles and countries are 
listed in Annex III. 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 2004 
de minimis level of $17.0 million. Annex IV to this notice contains a 
list of the articles and the associated countries granted de minimis 
waivers.

Marideth J. Sandler,
Executive Director, Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program, 
Chairman, GSP Subcommittee.
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