[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 83 (Tuesday, April 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 18241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08654]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the emergency provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
Title: Interim Procedures for Considering Requests from the Public
under the Textile and Apparel Safeguard Provision of the United States-
Korea Free Trade Agreement.
OMB Control Number: 0625-0269.
Form Number(s): Non-applicable.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Number of Respondents: 14.
Average Hours per Response: 4 hours for a Textile and Apparel
Safeguard Request; and 4 hours for a Comment.
Burden Hours: 56.
Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, Section 331 through Section
338 of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
(the ``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions,
provided for in Article 4.1 of the United States-Korea Free Trade
Agreement (the ``Agreement''), which entered into force on March 15,
2012. This safeguard mechanism applies when, as a result of the
reduction or elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a
Korean textile or apparel article is being imported into the United
States in such increased quantities, in absolute terms or relative to
the domestic market for that article, and under such conditions as to
cause serious damage or actual threat thereof to a U.S. industry
producing a like or directly competitive article. In these
circumstances, Article 4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a)
suspend any further reduction in the rate of duty provided for under
Annex 2-B of the Agreement in the duty imposed on the article; or (b)
increase duties on the imported article from Korea to a level that does
not exceed the lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal trade relations
(``NTR'')/most-favored-nation (``MFN'') duty rate for the article or
the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect on the day before the Agreement
enters into force.
The Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the Act
provides that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements (CITA) will issue procedures for requesting such safeguard
measures, for making its determinations under Section 332(a) of the
Act, and for providing relief under Section 332(b) of the Act. CITA was
unable to publish these procedures earlier and is requesting an
emergency review of the information collection and procedures from the
Office of Management and Budget.
CITA must collect information in order to determine whether a
domestic textile or apparel industry is being adversely impacted by
imports of these products from Korean, thereby allowing CITA to take
corrective action to protect the viability of the domestic textile or
apparel industry, subject to section 332(b) of the Act.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2019-08654 Filed 4-29-19; 8:45 am]
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