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IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE
AGREEMENTS
Rescheduling of Consideration of
Requests for Textile and Apparel
Safeguard Action on Imports from
China and Solicitations of Public
Comments
May 5, 2005.
The Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(the Committee)
AGENCY:
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Rescheduling of consideration
by the Committee of requests for textile
and apparel safeguard action previously
stayed due to a court injunction, and
solicitation of public comments with
respect to those requests for which the
comment period remained open at the
time the injunction was imposed.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Committee has resumed
consideration of twelve requests for
safeguard action that were received from
certain textile and apparel trade
associations in October, November and
December, 2004. The Requestors asked
the Committee to limit imports from
China of twelve textile and apparel
products in accordance with the textile
and apparel safeguard provision in the
Report of the Working Party on the
Accession of China to the World Trade
Organization (the Accession
Agreement). Although the Committee
decided to consider these requests, and
solicited public comments, the Court of
International Trade preliminarily
enjoined CITA from taking any further
action on the requests on December 30,
2004. The Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit stayed the injunction on
April 27, 2005. The Committee is not
soliciting any further public comment
with respect to those requests where the
public comment period closed before
the court issued its injunction. With
respect to the remaining requests, the
Committee hereby solicits public
comments during a period beginning the
day following publication of this notice
in the Federal Register and
encompassing the number of days
remaining in the original comment
period when the court issued its
injunction.
Jay
Dowling, Office of Textiles and Apparel,
U.S. Department of Commerce, (202)
482-4058.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Authority: Section 204 of the Agriculture
Act of 1956, as amended; Executive Order
11651, as amended.
BACKGROUND:
The textile and apparel safeguard
provision of the Accession Agreement
provides for the United States and other
members of the World Trade
Organization that believe imports of
Chinese origin textile and apparel
products are, due to market disruption,
threatening to impede the orderly
development of trade in these products
to request consultations with China
with a view to easing or avoiding the
disruption. Pursuant to this provision, if
the United States requests consultations
with China, it must, at the time of the
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request, provide China with a detailed
factual statement showing ‘‘(1) the
existence or threat of market disruption;
and (2) the role of products of Chinese
origin in that disruption.’’ Beginning on
the date that it receives such a request,
China must restrict its shipments to the
United States to a level no greater than
7.5 percent (6 percent for wool product
categories) above the amount entered
during the first 12 months of the most
recent 14 months preceding the month
in which the request for consultations is
made. If exports from China exceed that
amount, the United States may enforce
the restriction.
The Committee has published
procedures (the Procedures) it follows
in considering requests for Accession
Agreement textile and apparel safeguard
actions (68 FR 27787, May 21, 2003; 68
FR 49440, August 18, 2003), including
the information that must be included
in such requests in order for the
Committee to consider them.
In October through December of 2004,
the Requestors asked the Committee to
take safeguard action on imports from
China of 12 the following products: 1)
cotton trousers, category 347/348; (2)
cotton knit shirts and blouses, category
338/339; (3) men’s and boys’ cotton and
man-made fiber shirts, not knit, category
340/640; (4) man-made fiber knit shirts
and blouses, category 638/639; (5) manmade fiber trousers, category 647/648;
(6) cotton and man-made fiber
underwear, category 352/652; (7)
combed cotton yarn, category 301; (8)
other synthetic filament fabric, category
620; (9) men’s and boys’ wool trousers,
category 447; (10) knit fabric, category
222; (11) dressing gowns and robes,
category 350/650; and (12) brassieres
and other body supporting garments,
category 349/649.
The Committee determined that each
of these requests provided the
information necessary for the
Committee to consider the request and
solicited public comments on each. See
69 FR 64034 (Nov. 3, 2004); 69 FR
64911 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 64912 (Nov.
9, 2004); 69 FR 64913 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69
FR 64914 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 64915
(Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 68133 (Nov. 23,
2004); 69 FR 70661 (Dec. 7, 2004); 69 FR
71781 (Dec. 10, 2004); 69 FR 75516
(Dec. 17, 2004); 69 FR 77232 (Dec. 27,
2004); 69 FR 77998 (Dec. 29, 2004).
These requests are available at
https://otexa.ita.doc.gov.
On December 30, 2004, the Court of
International Trade preliminarily
enjoined the CITA agencies from
considering or taking any further action
on these requests and any other requests
‘‘that are based on the threat of market
disruption’’. U.S. Association of
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Importers of Textiles and Apparel v.
United States, Slip Op.04-162. On April
27, 2005, the Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit granted the U.S.
government’s motion for a stay of that
injunction, pending appeal. U.S.
Association of Importers of Textiles and
Apparel v. United States, Ct. No. 051209. Thus CITA may now resume
consideration of these cases.
Public Comments
The public comment period closed
prior to December 30, 2004 with respect
to the following seven requests: (1)
cotton trousers, category 347/348; (2)
cotton knit shirts and blouses, category
338/339; (3) men’s and boys’ cotton and
man-made fiber shirts, not knit, category
340/640; (4) man-made fiber knit shirts
and blouses, category 638/639; (5) manmade fiber trousers, category 647/648;
(6) cotton and man-made fiber
underwear, category 352/652; and (7)
combed cotton yarn, category 301. The
Committee is not soliciting additional
public comments with respect to those
requests.
With respect to the remaining five
requests filed in the last quarter of 2004,
the public comment period had not yet
closed as of December 30, 2004. The
number of calendar days remaining in
the public comment period beginning
with and including December 30, 2004
is indicated in parentheses for each
product group: (1) other synthetic
filament fabric, category 620 (8 days);
(2) men’s and boys’ wool trousers,
category 447 (12 days); (3) knit fabric,
category 222 (20 days); (4) dressing
gowns and robes, category 350/650 (28
days); and (5) brassieres and other body
supporting garments, category 349/649
(30 days).
For some of these cases, public
comments continued to be delivered to
the Committee during the original
comment period. Although the
Committee was barred by the injunction
from considering such comments while
the injunction was in effect, those
comments were retained, and will now
be considered. They need not be resubmitted.
Interested persons are invited to
submit ten copies of comments in
connection with these five requests to
the Chairman. Comments must be
received no later than the last day of the
number of days remaining in the
original comment period at the time of
the imposition of the injunction. Thus,
for (1) other synthetic filament fabric,
category 620, comments must be
received no later than May 17, 2005; for
(2) men’s and boys’ wool trousers,
category 447, comments must be
received no later than May 23, 2005; for
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(3) knit fabric, category 222, comments
must be received no later than May 31,
2005; for (4) dressing gowns and robes,
category 350/650, comments must be
received no later than June 6, 2005; and
for (5) brassieres and other body
supporting garments, category 349/649,
comments must be received no later
than June 8, 2005.
Comments should be directed to the
Committee for the Implementation of
Textile Agreements, Room 3001A, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th and
Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington,
DC 20230.
The Committee will protect any
business confidential information that is
marked ‘‘business confidential’’ from
disclosure to the full extent permitted
by law. To the extent that business
confidential information is provided,
two copies of a non-confidential version
must also be provided in which
business confidential information is
summarized or, if necessary, deleted.
Comments received, with the exception
of information marked ‘‘business
confidential’’, will be available for
inspection between Monday - Friday,
8:30 a.m and 5:30 p.m in the Trade
Reference and Assistance Center Help
Desk, Suite 800M, USA Trade
Information Center, Ronald Reagan
Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC, (202) 482-3433.
Committee Determination Whether to
Request Consultations
With respect to the requests for which
the public comment period closed prior
to the imposition of the injunction, the
Committee will make a determination
within 60 calendar days of the
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publication of this notice in the Federal
Register as to whether the United States
will request consultations with China. If
the Committee is unable to make a
determination within 60 calendar days,
it will cause to be published a notice in
the Federal Register, including the date
by which it will make a determination.
If the Committee makes a negative
determination, it will cause this
determination and the reasons therefore
to be published in the Federal Register.
If the Committee makes an affirmative
determination that imports of these
textile and apparel products threaten to
disrupt the U.S. market, the United
States will request consultations with
China with a view to easing or avoiding
the disruption.
With respect to the requests for which
the public comment period remained
open at the time of the imposition of the
injunction, the Committee will make a
determination within 60 calendar days
of the close of the public comment
period, as described above in the
‘‘Affected Product Groups’’ section, as
to whether the United States will
request consultations with China. If the
Committee is unable to make a
determination within 60 calendar days,
it will cause to be published a notice in
the Federal Register, including the date
by which it will make a determination.
If the Committee makes a negative
determination, it will cause this
determination and the reasons therefore
to be published in the Federal Register.
If the Committee makes an affirmative
determination that imports of these
textile and apparel products threaten to
disrupt the U.S. market, the United
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States will request consultations with
China with a view to easing or avoiding
the disruption.
D. Michael Hutchinson,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements.
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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Rescheduling of Consideration of Requests for Textile and Apparel
Safeguard Action on Imports from China and Solicitations of Public
Comments
May 5, 2005.
AGENCY: The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (the
Committee)
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ACTION: Rescheduling of consideration by the Committee of requests for
textile and apparel safeguard action previously stayed due to a court
injunction, and solicitation of public comments with respect to those
requests for which the comment period remained open at the time the
injunction was imposed.
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SUMMARY: The Committee has resumed consideration of twelve requests for
safeguard action that were received from certain textile and apparel
trade associations in October, November and December, 2004. The
Requestors asked the Committee to limit imports from China of twelve
textile and apparel products in accordance with the textile and apparel
safeguard provision in the Report of the Working Party on the Accession
of China to the World Trade Organization (the Accession Agreement).
Although the Committee decided to consider these requests, and
solicited public comments, the Court of International Trade
preliminarily enjoined CITA from taking any further action on the
requests on December 30, 2004. The Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit stayed the injunction on April 27, 2005. The Committee is not
soliciting any further public comment with respect to those requests
where the public comment period closed before the court issued its
injunction. With respect to the remaining requests, the Committee
hereby solicits public comments during a period beginning the day
following publication of this notice in the Federal Register and
encompassing the number of days remaining in the original comment
period when the court issued its injunction.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jay Dowling, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 482-4058.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Section 204 of the Agriculture Act of 1956, as
amended; Executive Order 11651, as amended.
BACKGROUND:
The textile and apparel safeguard provision of the Accession
Agreement provides for the United States and other members of the World
Trade Organization that believe imports of Chinese origin textile and
apparel products are, due to market disruption, threatening to impede
the orderly development of trade in these products to request
consultations with China with a view to easing or avoiding the
disruption. Pursuant to this provision, if the United States requests
consultations with China, it must, at the time of the request, provide
China with a detailed factual statement showing ``(1) the existence or
threat of market disruption; and (2) the role of products of Chinese
origin in that disruption.'' Beginning on the date that it receives
such a request, China must restrict its shipments to the United States
to a level no greater than 7.5 percent (6 percent for wool product
categories) above the amount entered during the first 12 months of the
most recent 14 months preceding the month in which the request for
consultations is made. If exports from China exceed that amount, the
United States may enforce the restriction.
The Committee has published procedures (the Procedures) it follows
in considering requests for Accession Agreement textile and apparel
safeguard actions (68 FR 27787, May 21, 2003; 68 FR 49440, August 18,
2003), including the information that must be included in such requests
in order for the Committee to consider them.
In October through December of 2004, the Requestors asked the
Committee to take safeguard action on imports from China of 12 the
following products: 1) cotton trousers, category 347/348; (2) cotton
knit shirts and blouses, category 338/339; (3) men's and boys' cotton
and man-made fiber shirts, not knit, category 340/640; (4) man-made
fiber knit shirts and blouses, category 638/639; (5) man-made fiber
trousers, category 647/648; (6) cotton and man-made fiber underwear,
category 352/652; (7) combed cotton yarn, category 301; (8) other
synthetic filament fabric, category 620; (9) men's and boys' wool
trousers, category 447; (10) knit fabric, category 222; (11) dressing
gowns and robes, category 350/650; and (12) brassieres and other body
supporting garments, category 349/649.
The Committee determined that each of these requests provided the
information necessary for the Committee to consider the request and
solicited public comments on each. See 69 FR 64034 (Nov. 3, 2004); 69
FR 64911 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 64912 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 64913 (Nov.
9, 2004); 69 FR 64914 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR 64915 (Nov. 9, 2004); 69 FR
68133 (Nov. 23, 2004); 69 FR 70661 (Dec. 7, 2004); 69 FR 71781 (Dec.
10, 2004); 69 FR 75516 (Dec. 17, 2004); 69 FR 77232 (Dec. 27, 2004); 69
FR 77998 (Dec. 29, 2004).
These requests are available at https://otexa.ita.doc.gov.
On December 30, 2004, the Court of International Trade
preliminarily enjoined the CITA agencies from considering or taking any
further action on these requests and any other requests ``that are
based on the threat of market disruption''. U.S. Association of
Importers of Textiles and Apparel v. United States, Slip Op.04-162. On
April 27, 2005, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted
the U.S. government's motion for a stay of that injunction, pending
appeal. U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel v. United
States, Ct. No. 05-1209. Thus CITA may now resume consideration of
these cases.
Public Comments
The public comment period closed prior to December 30, 2004 with
respect to the following seven requests: (1) cotton trousers, category
347/348; (2) cotton knit shirts and blouses, category 338/339; (3)
men's and boys' cotton and man-made fiber shirts, not knit, category
340/640; (4) man-made fiber knit shirts and blouses, category 638/639;
(5) man-made fiber trousers, category 647/648; (6) cotton and man-made
fiber underwear, category 352/652; and (7) combed cotton yarn, category
301. The Committee is not soliciting additional public comments with
respect to those requests.
With respect to the remaining five requests filed in the last
quarter of 2004, the public comment period had not yet closed as of
December 30, 2004. The number of calendar days remaining in the public
comment period beginning with and including December 30, 2004 is
indicated in parentheses for each product group: (1) other synthetic
filament fabric, category 620 (8 days); (2) men's and boys' wool
trousers, category 447 (12 days); (3) knit fabric, category 222 (20
days); (4) dressing gowns and robes, category 350/650 (28 days); and
(5) brassieres and other body supporting garments, category 349/649 (30
days).
For some of these cases, public comments continued to be delivered
to the Committee during the original comment period. Although the
Committee was barred by the injunction from considering such comments
while the injunction was in effect, those comments were retained, and
will now be considered. They need not be re-submitted.
Interested persons are invited to submit ten copies of comments in
connection with these five requests to the Chairman. Comments must be
received no later than the last day of the number of days remaining in
the original comment period at the time of the imposition of the
injunction. Thus, for (1) other synthetic filament fabric, category
620, comments must be received no later than May 17, 2005; for (2)
men's and boys' wool trousers, category 447, comments must be received
no later than May 23, 2005; for
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(3) knit fabric, category 222, comments must be received no later than
May 31, 2005; for (4) dressing gowns and robes, category 350/650,
comments must be received no later than June 6, 2005; and for (5)
brassieres and other body supporting garments, category 349/649,
comments must be received no later than June 8, 2005.
Comments should be directed to the Committee for the Implementation
of Textile Agreements, Room 3001A, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
and Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20230.
The Committee will protect any business confidential information
that is marked ``business confidential'' from disclosure to the full
extent permitted by law. To the extent that business confidential
information is provided, two copies of a non-confidential version must
also be provided in which business confidential information is
summarized or, if necessary, deleted. Comments received, with the
exception of information marked ``business confidential'', will be
available for inspection between Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m and 5:30 p.m
in the Trade Reference and Assistance Center Help Desk, Suite 800M, USA
Trade Information Center, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, (202) 482-3433.
Committee Determination Whether to Request Consultations
With respect to the requests for which the public comment period
closed prior to the imposition of the injunction, the Committee will
make a determination within 60 calendar days of the publication of this
notice in the Federal Register as to whether the United States will
request consultations with China. If the Committee is unable to make a
determination within 60 calendar days, it will cause to be published a
notice in the Federal Register, including the date by which it will
make a determination. If the Committee makes a negative determination,
it will cause this determination and the reasons therefore to be
published in the Federal Register. If the Committee makes an
affirmative determination that imports of these textile and apparel
products threaten to disrupt the U.S. market, the United States will
request consultations with China with a view to easing or avoiding the
disruption.
With respect to the requests for which the public comment period
remained open at the time of the imposition of the injunction, the
Committee will make a determination within 60 calendar days of the
close of the public comment period, as described above in the
``Affected Product Groups'' section, as to whether the United States
will request consultations with China. If the Committee is unable to
make a determination within 60 calendar days, it will cause to be
published a notice in the Federal Register, including the date by which
it will make a determination. If the Committee makes a negative
determination, it will cause this determination and the reasons
therefore to be published in the Federal Register. If the Committee
makes an affirmative determination that imports of these textile and
apparel products threaten to disrupt the U.S. market, the United States
will request consultations with China with a view to easing or avoiding
the disruption.
D. Michael Hutchinson,
Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements.
[FR Doc. 05-9320 Filed 5-5-05; 2:51 am]
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