[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 68 (Friday, April 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16363-16364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8168]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[Application No. 97-9A003]


Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Issuance ( 97-9A003) of an Amended Export 
Trade Certificate of Review Issued to the Association for the 
Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce issued an amended Export Trade 
Certificate of Review to the

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Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. (``AARQ'') on 
March 31, 2009. The Certificate has been amended nine times. The most 
recent previous amendment was issued to AARQ on February 14, 2005, and 
published in the Federal Register February 23, 2005 (70 FR 8766). The 
original Export Trade Certificate of Review No. 97-00003 was issued to 
AARQ on January 21, 1998, and published in the Federal Register on 
January 28, 1998, (63 FR 4220).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Anspacher, Director, Export 
Trading Company Affairs, International Trade Administration, by 
telephone at (202) 482-5131 (this is not a toll-free number) or by e-
mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act 
of 1982 (15 U.S.C. Sections 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of 
Commerce to issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. The regulations 
implementing Title III are found at 15 CFR Part 325 (2008).
    Export Trading Company Affairs is issuing this notice pursuant to 
15 CFR 325.6(b), which requires the Department of Commerce to publish a 
summary of the certification in the Federal Register. Under Section 
305(a) of the Act and 15 CFR 325.11(a), any person aggrieved by the 
Secretary's determination may, within 30 days of the date of this 
notice, bring an action in any appropriate district court of the United 
States to set aside the determination on the ground that the 
determination is erroneous.

Description of Amended Certificate

    AARQ's Export Trade Certificate of Review has been amended to:
    1. Delete the following companies as Members of the Certificate: 
California Rice Marketing LLC, Sacramento, CA; ConAgra Foods, Inc., 
Omaha, Nebraska, and its subsidiary ConAgra Trade Group, Inc., Omaha, 
Nebraska (formerly Alliance Grain, Inc., Marlton, New Jersey); Gold 
River Mills, LLC, Woodland, California (formerly Gold River Mills, LLC 
dba California Pacific Rice Milling, Woodland, California); 
International Grain Brokerage, LLC, Yuba City, California; 
MasterfoodsUSA, a Mars, Incorporated Company, Greenville, Mississippi; 
RiceTec, Inc., Alvin, Texas; and Supreme Rice Mill, Inc., Crowley, 
Louisiana.
    2. Add the following company as a new Member of the Certificate 
within the meaning of section 325.2(1) of the Regulations (15 CFR 
325.(1)): ``SunFoods LLC, Woodland, California.'' SunFoods LLC is a 
U.S. joint venture rice milling and marketing company. The SunFoods LLC 
joint venture includes a 65 percent majority share by Ricegrowers 
Limited of Sydney, Australia (trading as SunRice) and the amalgamated 
assets and brands previously held by Gold River Mills, LLC, Woodland, 
California (formerly Gold River Mills, LLC dba California Pacific Rice 
Milling, Woodland, California).
    3. Amend the listings of the following Members: ``AFE (USA) Inc.'' 
has been amended to read ``Nobel Logistics USA Inc.'' due to a 
corporate name change; ``Busch Agricultural Resources, Inc. and its 
subsidiary Pacific International Rice Mills, Inc.'' has been amended to 
read ``Busch Agricultural Resources, LLC and its subsidiary Pacific 
International Rice Mills, LLC (both subsidiaries of Anheuser-Busch, 
Inc., which is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev)'' due to changes 
in corporate structures; and ``Cargill Americas, Inc.'' has been 
amended to read ``Cargill Americas, Inc., and its subsidiary CAI 
Trading Company LLC'' due to a change in corporate structure.
    4. In addition to the above, the Export Trade Activities and 
Methods of Operation section of AARQ's Certificate has been updated to 
delete obsolete references to AARQ's earlier years of operation and add 
clarification or make corrections as follows: Item 2.E.(a)(ii) has been 
amended from ``a minimum bid quantity of twenty (20) metric tons'' to 
read ``a minimum bid quantity of eighteen (18) metric tons''; Item 
2.H.(a) has been amended from a reference to ``paragraphs (b) through 
(g) below'' to read ``paragraphs (b) through (d) below''; and Item 
2.H.(c)(iii) has been amended from ``The computation of Members' 
exports under this paragraph (e)'' to read ``The computation of 
Members' exports under this paragraph (c).'' In addition, Item 1. of 
the section for Terms and Conditions of Certificate has been amended 
from ``Except as authorized in Paragraphs 2.E(d) and H(c) and (d) of 
the Export Trade Activities and Methods of Operation'' to read ``Except 
as authorized in Paragraph 2.E(d) of the Export Trade Activities and 
Methods of Operation.''
    The effective date of the amended certificate is December 31, 2008. 
A copy of the amended certificate will be kept in the International 
Trade Administration's Freedom of Information Records Inspection 
Facility, Room 4001, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: March 31, 2009.
Jeffrey Anspacher,
Director, Export Trading Company Affairs.
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