[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 116 (Monday, June 16, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 33992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13482]


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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS


Entry of Shipments of Cotton, Wool, Man-Made Fiber, Silk Blend 
and Other Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Apparel in Excess of U.S. - 
China Bilateral Textile Agreement Limits for 2008.

June 11, 2008.
AGENCY: The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (the 
Committee).

ACTION: Notice.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended; 
Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
1854).
    This notice serves to remind interested parties that charges 
against the limits subject to the U.S. - China Bilateral Textile 
Agreement signed on November 8, 2005 (the Agreement) are by date of 
export and not date of entry. A properly completed electronic visa 
(ELVIS) transmission will be required for all shipments exported prior 
to January 1, 2009 that are subject to Agreement limits, regardless of 
the date of entry into the United States. Shipments exported in 2008 in 
excess of agreed limits are in violation of the terms of the Agreement. 
Shipments exported from China on and after January 1, 2009 will not 
require an ELVIS transmission.
    The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that CITA 
reserves the right to permanently deny entry to or to stage entry to 
goods that have been shipped in excess of the 2008 limits under the 
Agreement. Overshipments of merchandise subject to the Agreement shall 
be subject to delayed and staged entry, in a manner similar to the 
procedures followed for overshipments of 2005 China textile safeguard 
limits, as published in the Federal Register Notice on December 5, 2005 
(70 FR 72427). Any overshipments of the 2008 limits of the Agreement 
shall be subject to the following procedures:
     1. Entry will not be allowed until one month after the expiration 
date of the agreement limit. Therefore entry will not be allowed until 
February 1, 2009.
     2. At that time, only 5 percent of the 2008 base limit will be 
allowed entry for a one month period beginning on that date.
     3. An additional 5 percent will be allowed entry monthly until all 
overshipments are allowed entry.
    CITA will publish a notice and directive to U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) later this year indicating the categories involved in 
staged entry and the 5 percent quantities to be allowed in monthly 
beginning February 1, 2009.

R. Matthew Priest,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc. E8-13482 Filed 6-13-08; 8:45 am]
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