[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 250 (Thursday, December 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81914-81915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33387]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[Application No. 97-11A03]


Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of application (97-11A03) to amend the Export Trade 
Certificate of Review issued to Association for the Administration of 
Rice Quotas, Inc. (AARQ).

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SUMMARY: The Office of Competition and Economic Analysis (``OCEA'') of 
the International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has 
received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review 
(``Certificate''). This notice summarizes the proposed amendment and 
requests comments relevant to whether the amended Certificate should be 
issued.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Monica Barnes, Office of Competition 
and Economic Analysis, International Trade Administration, (202) 482-
5131 (this is not a toll-free number) or email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act 
of 1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to 
issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. An Export Trade Certificate 
of Review protects the holder and the members identified in the 
Certificate from State and Federal government antitrust actions and 
from private treble damage antitrust actions for the export conduct 
specified in the Certificate and carried out in compliance with its 
terms and conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the Export Trading Company 
Act of 1982 and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the Secretary to publish a 
notice in the Federal Register identifying the applicant and 
summarizing its proposed export conduct.

Request for Public Comments

    Interested parties may submit written comments relevant to the 
determination whether an amended Certificate should be issued. If the 
comments include any privileged or confidential business information, 
it must be clearly marked and a nonconfidential version of the comments 
(identified as such) should be included. Any comments not marked as 
privileged or confidential business information will be deemed to be 
nonconfidential.
    An original and five (5) copies, plus two (2) copies of the 
nonconfidential version, should be submitted no later than 20 days 
after the date of this notice to: Export Trading Company Affairs, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 
7021-X, Washington, DC 20230.
    Information submitted by any person is exempt from disclosure under 
the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). However, nonconfidential 
versions of the comments will be made available to the applicant if 
necessary for determining whether or not to issue the Certificate. 
Comments should refer to this application as ``Export Trade Certificate 
of Review, application number 97-11A03.''
    AARQ's original Certificate was issued on January 21, 1998 (63 FR 
4220, January 28, 1998). A summary of the current application for an 
amendment follows.

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Summary of the Application

    Applicant: Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc., 
c/o Marvin Baden, AARQ Chairman, Producers Rice Mill, Inc., 518 East 
Harrison Street, Stuttgart, Arkansas, 72160.
    Contact: M. Jean Anderson, Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, 
1300 Eye Street NW., Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 
682-7217.
    Application No.: 97-11A03.
    Date Deemed Submitted: December 16, 2011.
    Proposed Amendment: AARQ seeks to amend its Export Trade 
Certificate to update the list of Members to reflect changes in 
ownership, corporate structures, names and locations:
    1. ``American Rice, Inc., Houston, Texas (a subsidiary of SOS 
Corporation Alimentaria, SA)'' should be amended to read ``American 
Rice, Inc., Houston, Texas (a subsidiary of Ebro Foods, S.A. (Spain))''
    2. ``Associated Rice Marketing Cooperative, Durham, California'' 
should be amended to read ``Associated Rice Marketing Cooperative 
(ARMCO), Richvale, California''
    3. ``Busch Agricultural Resources, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, and 
its subsidiary, Pacific International Rice Mills, LLC, Woodland, 
California'' should be amended to read ``Bunge Milling, Saint Louis, 
Missouri (a subsidiary of Bunge North America, White Plains, New York), 
dba PIRMI (Pacific International Rice Mills), Woodland, California''
    4. ``Gulf Rice Arkansas, LLC (a subsidiary of Ansera Marketing, 
Inc.), Houston, Texas'' should be deleted, as Gulf Rice Arkansas II, 
LLC, a successor to Gulf Rice Arkansas, LLC, is now a subsidiary of 
another member, TRC Trading Corporation (see below)
    5. ``Louis Dreyfus Corporation, Wilton, Connecticut'' should be 
amended to read ``LD Commodities Rice Merchandising LLC, Wilton, 
Connecticut, and LD Commodities Interior Rice Merchandising LLC, Kansas 
City, Missouri (subsidiaries of Louis Dreyfus Commodities LLC, Wilton, 
Connecticut)''
    6. ``Nidera, Inc., Wilton, Connecticut (a subsidiary of Nidera 
Handelscompagnie BV (Netherlands))'' should be amended to read ``Nidera 
US LLC, Wilton, Connecticut (a subsidiary of Nidera Handelscompagnie BV 
(Netherlands))''
    7. ``Noble Logistics USA Inc., Portland, Oregon'' should be 
corrected to read ``Noble Logistic USA Inc., Portland, Oregon''
    8. ``PS International, Ltd., Chapel Hill, North Carolina'' should 
be amended to read ``PS International LLC dba PS International, Ltd., 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina (jointly owned by Seaboard Corporation, 
Kansas City, Missouri, and PS Trading Inc., Chapel Hill, North 
Carolina)''
    9. ``Riviana Foods Inc., Houston, Texas (a subsidiary of Ebro 
Puleva, S.A. (Spain)'' should be amended to read ``Riviana Foods Inc., 
Houston, Texas (a subsidiary of Ebro Foods, S.A. (Spain))''
    10. ``TRC Trading Corporation, Roseville, California (a subsidiary 
of The Rice Company)'' should be amended to read ``TRC Trading 
Corporation, Roseville, California (a subsidiary of TRC Group, Inc., 
Roseville, California) and its subsidiary, Gulf Rice Arkansas II, LLC, 
Houston, Texas''
    11. ``Veetee Rice, Inc., Springfield, Virginia (a subsidiary of 
Veetee Investments (Bahamas))'' should be amended to read ``Veetee Rice 
Inc., Great Neck, New York (a subsidiary of Veetee Investments 
Corporation (Bahamas))''

    Dated: December 22, 2011.
Joseph E. Flynn,
Director, Office of Competition and Economic Analysis.
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