[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 72 (Friday, April 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23095-23096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-07914]


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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Renewal of Generic Clearance; Comment Request

AGENCY: International Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice and comment request.

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SUMMARY: Consistent with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 the U.S. 
International Trade Commission (Commission) has submitted a proposal 
for the collection of information to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for approval. The proposed information collection is a 
three-year extension of the current generic clearance (approved by OMB 
under Control No. 3117-0016) under which the Commission can issue 
information collections for import injury investigations and reviews 
that it is required to conduct under the Tariff Act of 1930, the Trade 
Act of 1974, and other trade remedy statutes that require or authorize 
the Commission to make findings or determinations. These investigations 
and reviews include: antidumping duty, countervailing duty, safeguards, 
other import competition, market disruption, interference with programs 
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and cross-border long-haul 
trucking. A full list of all the investigations and reviews associated 
with this generic clearance and their associated statutory authorities 
is available in the Commission's supporting statement to this Federal 
Register notice. Any comments submitted to OMB on the proposed 
information collection should be specific, indicating which part of the 
questionnaires or study plan are objectionable, describing the issue in 
detail, and including specific revisions or language changes. The 
Commission did not receive any comments in response to the 60-day 
notice that it published in the Federal Register on January 5, 2023.

DATES: Comments solicited under this notice must be submitted on or 
before May 15, 2023.
    Comments: Comments about the proposal should be provided to the 
Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs through the Information Collection Review Dashboard at https://www.reginfo.gov. All comments should be specific, indicating which part 
of the renewal request is objectionable, describing the concern in 
detail, and including specific suggested revisions or language changes. 
Provide copies of any comments that you submit to OMB to Nancy Snyder, 
Director, Office of Analysis and Research Services, U.S. International 
Trade Commission at [email protected] and Nannette Christ, 
Director, Office of Investigations, U.S. International Trade Commission 
at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You may obtain copies of the proposed 
collection of information and supporting documentation from Stamen

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Borisson, Office of Investigations, U.S. International Trade Commission 
at [email protected], 202-205-3125, or Zachary Coughlin, 
Statistical and Data Services Division, U.S. International Trade 
Commission, at [email protected], 202-205-3435. Hearing-
impaired persons can obtain information on this matter by contacting 
the Commission's TDD terminal at 202-205-1810. Persons with mobility 
impairments who will need special assistance in gaining access to the 
Commission should contact the Office of the Secretary at 202-205-2000. 
You may also obtain general information concerning the Commission by 
accessing its website (http://www.usitc.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    (1) The generic clearance generally covers the collections of six 
types of forms, as follows: U.S. producers' questionnaire; U.S. 
importers' questionnaire; U.S. purchasers' questionnaire; Foreign 
producers'/exporters' questionnaire; Administrative Protective Order 
(APO) application form; and Notice of Institution (NOI) for five-year 
reviews.
    (2) The types of items contained within actual information 
collections issued under this generic clearance are largely determined 
by statute; however, questions are modified to match the specific facts 
of each investigation or review. Case-specific factors such as the 
nature of the industry, the relevant economic and legal issues, the 
ability of respondents to supply the data, as well as the availability 
of data from secondary sources are all taken into consideration in each 
investigation and review.
    (3) Once the data are collected from the relevant entities in an 
information collection under this generic clearance, Commission staff 
consolidates the information collected into compilations, summaries, 
and statistical aggregations that are then used as the basis for the 
Commission's determinations or recommendations in the particular 
investigation or review. Affirmative Commission determinations in 
antidumping and countervailing duty investigations result in the 
imposition of duties on imports entering the United States, as 
determined by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which are in addition to 
any normal customs duties. If the Commission makes an affirmative 
determination in a five-year review, the existing antidumping or 
countervailing duty order remains in place. The President or the U.S. 
Trade Representative may use the data developed in global and bilateral 
safeguard, market disruption, interference with U.S. Department of 
Agriculture program, and cross-border long-haul trucking investigations 
to determine the type of relief, if any, to be provided to domestic 
industries.
    Parties' submissions of the Commission's APO application form for 
inclusion on the APO are the basis for determining whether those 
parties are granted access to business proprietary or confidential 
business information. The submissions made to the Commission in 
response to the notices of institution of five-year reviews are the 
basis for the Commission's determination whether to conduct a full or 
expedited review.
    (4) Likely respondents are businesses (including foreign 
businesses) or farms that produce, import, purchase, or sell products 
under investigation. The Commission estimates that information 
collections issued under the requested generic clearance will impose an 
average annual burden of 409,250 hours on 12,935 respondents over the 
next three-year generic clearance period.
    (5) No new record keeping burden is known to result from the 
proposed collection of information.
    (6) Note that, in addition to the generic clearance public comment 
process, for every individual antidumping and countervailing duty final 
investigation or full five-year review, Commission questionnaires are 
made available to the public on the Commission's Electronic Document 
Information System (EDIS) and parties specifically subject to the 
Commission investigation or review are requested to comment on the 
case-specific information collections prior to their issuance as part 
of the Commission's investigatory procedures.

    By order of the Commission.

    Issued: April 11, 2023.
Lisa Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2023-07914 Filed 4-13-23; 8:45 am]
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