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Department is also extending the time
limits for the preliminary results of
Dongbao by 35 days and for Anqiu
Friend by 8 days, until no later than
April 26, 2006. Thus, the Department
will issue the preliminary results for
Dongbao and Anqiu Friend concurrently
with the preliminary results for
Chengshun and Fanhui on April 26,
2006.
We are issuing this notice in
accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A)
and 777(i) of the Act.
Dated: November 30, 2005.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
[FR Doc. E5–6901 Filed 12–5–05; 8:45 am]
(1) Microstructural Characterization
Techniques
(2) Introduction to Scanning Electron
Microscopy
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Applications for Duty–Free Entry of
Scientific Instruments
Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub.
L. 89–651; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part
301), we invite comments on the
question of whether instruments of
equivalent scientific value, for the
purposes for which the instruments
shown below are intended to be used,
are being manufactured in the United
States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR
301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the regulations and
be filed within 20 days with the
Statutory Import Programs Staff, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington,
D.C. 20230. Applications may be
examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00
P.M. in Suite 4100W, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Franklin Court Building,
1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 05–047. Applicant:
Dartmouth College, Thayer School of
Engineering, HB 8000 Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH 03755–8000.
Instrument: Nano Magneto–optic Kerr
Effect Microscope. Manufacturer:
Durham Magneto Optics, Ltd., UK.
Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used to study the Kerr
effect which is the rotation of the
polarization of light under the influence
of time–varying magnetic fields in three
axes. Transverse, longitudinal, and
polar Kerr effects will be measured as
well as time–varying combinations of
these. Thin layers of several magnetic
alloys inside of dielectric structures will
be deposited to enhance the effect of the
magnetic field to measure magnetic
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properties of weakly magnetic materials,
and to maximize the polarization
rotation of Kerr–effect materials.
Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: October 28, 2005.
Docket Number: 05–048. Applicant:
Purdue University, 401 South Grant
Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model
Nova 200 NanoLab. Manufacturer: FEI
Company, The Netherlands. Intended
Use: The instrument is intended to be
used for instruction in the following
courses:
(3) Introduction to Transmission
Electron Microscopy
(4) Transmission Electron Microscopy
and Crystal Imperfections.
It will also be used in individualized
instruction for MS and PhD Theses.
Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: November 10, 2005.
Docket Number: 05–049. Applicant:
Purdue University, 401 South Grant
Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model
Technai G2 F30 S–TWIN. Manufacturer:
FEI Company, The Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used for instruction in
the following courses:
(1) Microstructural Characterization
Techniques
(2) Introduction to Scanning Electron
Microscopy
(3) Introduction to Transmission
Electron Microscopy
(4) Transmission Electron Microscopy
and Crystal Imperfections.
It will also be used in individualized
instruction for MS and PhD Theses.
Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: November 10, 2005.
Docket Number: 05–050. Applicant: The
Ohio State University, Materials Science
and Engineering, 2041 College Road,
Columbus, OH 43210. Instrument:
Electron Microscope, Model Titan F30
S–TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company,
The Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used in a
multi–disciplinary central
instrumentation facility and will be
used to study many different types of
solid state materials. It will be used for
general morphological and structural
studies of ceramics and metals,
including high–temperature
superconductors, high–temperature
metal alloys, evaporated metal films,
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silicon–germanium quantum dots, soils
and geological materials, polymers and
possibly some biological samples. It will
be used measure the morphology and
orientation of grains and particles, as
well as the structure, long and short
range ordering, number and type of
defects and the elemental composition
of various phases in the materials.
Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: November 16, 2005.
Docket Number: 05–051. Applicant: The
Rockefeller University, 1230 York
Avenue, New York, NY 10021.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model
Technai G2 12 Bio Twin. Manufacturer:
FEI Company, The Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used in a central facility
that is available for use by all
researchers at the University. The center
provides highly specialized state–ofthe–art equipment for both optical and
electron microscopy, as well as training
in its use. The staff are available to
provide experimental assistance and
advice. About 65 of 75 of the
laboratories will be used by a wide
variety of researchers working on a
broad range of experimental systems,
from viruses and bacteria to sections of
brain tissue. The new very high
resolution microscope for cell biology
will allow visualization of a single cell
or bacterium filling an 8 x 11 page.
Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: November 18, 2005.
Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs
Staff.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Export Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION:
Notice of application.
SUMMARY: Export Trading Company
Affairs (‘‘ETCA’’), International Trade
Administration, Department of
Commerce, has received an application
for an Export Trade Certificate of
Review. This notice summarizes the
conduct for which certification is sought
and requests comments relevant to
whether the Certificate should be
issued.
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 E-mail at oetca@ita.doc.gov.
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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. A
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 Act
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Public Comments
Interested parties may submit written
comments relevant to the determination
whether a 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
privileged or confidential business
information will be deemed to be
nonconfidential. An original and five
copies, plus two copies of the
nonconfidential version, should be
submitted no later than 20 days after the
date of this notice to: Office of Export
Trading Company Affairs, International
Trade Administration, Department of
Commerce, Room 7021H, Washington,
DC 20230, or transmit by E-mail at
oetca@ita.doc.gov. 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 05–00002.’’ A summary of the
application follows.
Summary of the Application
Applicant: California Tomato Export
Group (‘‘CTEG’’), 230 Thunderbird
Drive, Aptos, California 95003; Contact:
Rodger Wasson, Consultant; Telephone:
(831) 254–5405.
Application No.: 05–00002.
Date Deemed Submitted: November
21, 2005.
Members (in addition to applicant):
CTEG is a newly formed export joint
venture comprising the following
members: Ingomar Packing Company,
Los Banos, CA; Los Gatos Tomato
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Products, Huron, CA; and SK Foods,
Lemoore, CA.
CTEG seeks a Certificate to engage in
the Export Trade Activities and
Methods of Operation described below
in the following Export Trade and
Export Markets:
Export Trade
Products
CTEG plans to export processed
tomato products. Products that are
included are tomato paste, diced
tomatoes, canned foodservice tomatoes,
canned retail tomatoes, and formulated
glass retail products.
Export Markets
The Export Markets include all parts
of the world except the United States
(the fifty states of the United States, the
District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam,
the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands).
Export Trade Activities and Methods of
Operation
CTEG seeks certification for the
following activities and exchanges of
information:
CTEG and/or one or more of its
Members may on behalf of and with the
advice and assistance of its Members:
1. Export Promotion of Processed
Tomatoes
a. Research, develop and conduct
promotion and public relations
activities to develop demand for the
exported products of the member
companies;
b. Seek export promotional funds
jointly to combine efforts to promote the
companies’ exports aimed at expanding
existing markets and creating new
markets;
c. Develop and disseminate industry
news reports of interest to foreign
buyers. Provide information collectively
to prospective export buyers regarding
items such as crop inventory and
structure of the U.S. processed tomato
industry; and
d. Organize joint representation at
world tomato conferences;
2. Investment
Invest jointly in export infrastructure,
activities, and operations, such as:
a. Bill and collect from foreign buyers
and provide collective accounting, tax,
legal and consulting assistance and
services;
b. Write contracts for export payment
terms;
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c. Organize and conduct joint
representation at tomato industry
conferences where foreign buyers are
present;
d. Develop and maintain a website/
newsletter and marketing brochures
with product and crop information for
the benefit of foreign customers;
e. Purchase/rent warehouse facilities
to conduct export operations;
f. Combine purchases of inputs for
export operations;
g. Negotiate and enter into agreements
with providers of transportation services
for the export of processed tomato
products;
h. Consolidate CTEG shipments to
export markets;
i. Administer phytosanitary protocols
to qualify the processed tomato
products for export markets;
3. Funding
Apply for and utilize export
assistance and incentive programs, as
well as arrange financing through bank
holding companies, governmental
programs, and other arrangements;
4. Export Market Development
a. Design and develop foreign
marketing strategies for CTEG’s export
markets; and
b. Design, develop, and market
generic corporate and/or CTEG labels
for export;
5. Export Sales Prices
Establish export sale prices, minimum
export sale prices, target export sales
prices and/or minimum target export
sale prices, and other terms of sale;
6. Joint Bidding
Engage in joint bidding or other joint
selling arrangements for export
processed exported tomatoes and
allocate export sales resulting from such
arrangements;
7. Quantities
Agree on quantities of processed
tomatoes to be exported, provided each
member shall be required to dedicate
only such quantity or quantities as each
such member shall independently
determine;
8. Foreign Buyer Negotiations
Participate in negotiations and enter
into agreements with foreign buyers
(including governments and private
persons) regarding:
a. The quantities, time periods, prices
and terms and conditions in connection
with actual or potential bona fide export
opportunities; and
b. Non-tariff trade barriers in the
export markets;
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9. Refusals to Deal
Refuse to quote prices for export
products, or to market or sell export
products, to or for any customer in the
export processed tomato market, or any
countries or geographical areas in the
export markets;
10. Market and Customer Allocation
Allocate geographic areas or countries
in the export markets and/or customers
in the export markets among members
of the California Tomato Export Group;
11. Exclusive and Nonexclusive Export
Intermediaries
Enter into exclusive and nonexclusive
agreements appointing one or more
export intermediaries for the sale of
export products with price, quantity,
territorial and/or customer restrictions.
‘‘Export Intermediary’’ means a person
who acts as a distributor, sales
representative, sales or marketing agent,
broker, or who performs similar
functions including providing or
arranging for the provision of export
trade facilitation services;
12. Meetings
Meet with members of the Certificate
and manager of the Certificate present;
13. Non-Member Activities
a. Enter into agreements with nonmembers, whether or not exclusive, to
provide export trade facilitation
services;
b. Purchase tomatoes from nonmembers to fulfill specific export sales
obligations, provided that CTEG and/or
its members shall make such purchases
only on a transaction-by-transaction
basis and when the members are unable
to supply, in a timely manner, the
requisite products at a price competitive
under the circumstances. In no event
shall a non-member be included in any
deliberations concerning any export
activities and operations; and
14. Government Liaison
Advise and cooperate with the United
States and foreign governments in:
a. Establishing procedures regulating
the export of processed tomato
products, and
b. Fulfilling the phytosanitary and/or
funding requirements imposed by
foreign governments for export of the
processed tomato products.
CTEG may exchange the following
information with and among the
Members as necessary to carry out
export trade activities and methods of
operation:
1. Information about export sales and
marketing efforts; selling strategies,
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contract and spot pricing in the export
markets;
2. Information regarding projected
demand in the export markets;
3. Information about the customary
terms of sales in export markets;
4. Information about export prices and
availability of competitor’s processed
tomato products for sale in the export
markets;
5. Specifications for processed tomato
products by customers in the export
markets;
6. Information about terms and
conditions of contracts for sale in the
export markets to be considered and/or
bid on by CTEG and its members;
7. Information about the price,
quality, source, and delivery dates of
processed tomato products available for
export by CTEG members;
8. Information about joint bidding
and/or selling arrangements for export
markets;
9. Information regarding terms,
conditions, and specifications of
particular export contracts for sale or to
be considered and/or bid on by the
CTEG;
10. Information about expenses
specific to exporting to and within the
export markets, sales and distribution
networks established by CTEG or its
members in export markets;
11. Information about export customer
credit terms and credit history;
12. Information about United States
and foreign legislation and regulations,
including federal marketing order
programs, affecting sales to the export
markets;
13. Information about joint bidding or
selling arrangements for the export
markets and allocations of sales
resulting from such arrangements
among the members;
14. Information about expenses
specific to exporting to and within the
export markets, including without
limitation, transportation, trans-or
intermodal shipments, insurance,
inland freight to port, port storage,
commissions, export sales,
documentation; financing, customs,
duties, and taxes;
15. Information about CTEG’s or its
members’ export operations, including
without limitation, sales and
distribution networks established by
CTEG or its members in the export
markets, and prior export sales by
members (including export price
information);
16. Information regarding the
forecasted quantity of processed
tomatoes secured through contracts by
each member for upcoming seasons;
17. Information regarding the
potential available supply of processed
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tomato products available for export and
not committed to domestic markets in
upcoming seasons; and
18. Information about global tomato
crop supply, including planting
intentions, growing conditions, weather,
disease, transportation, consumer
trends, health news, regulatory impacts
and information that impacts on the
availability, conditions and costs to
foreign buyers.
Dated: December 1, 2005.
Jeffrey Anspacher,
Director, Export Trading Company Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Vessel Monitoring
System for Atlantic Highly Migratory
Species
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before February 6, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Diana Hynek, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6625,
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at dHynek@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Chris Rilling, Highly
Migratory Species Management Division
(F/SF1), Office of Sustainable Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910, phone (301) 713–2347 or
Chris.Rilling@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Vessels fishing for Atlantic highly
migratory species (HMS) with pelagic
longline, bottom longline, or gillnet gear
on board are required to install and
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Export Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: Export Trading Company Affairs (``ETCA''), International Trade
Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application for
an Export Trade Certificate of Review. This notice summarizes the
conduct for which certification is sought and requests comments
relevant to whether the Certificate should be issued.
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 E-mail
at oetca@ita.doc.gov.
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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. A 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 Act 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 a 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
privileged or confidential business information will be deemed to be
nonconfidential. An original and five copies, plus two copies of the
nonconfidential version, should be submitted no later than 20 days
after the date of this notice to: Office of Export Trading Company
Affairs, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce,
Room 7021H, Washington, DC 20230, or transmit by E-mail at
oetca@ita.doc.gov. 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 05-00002.'' A
summary of the application follows.
Summary of the Application
Applicant: California Tomato Export Group (``CTEG''), 230
Thunderbird Drive, Aptos, California 95003; Contact: Rodger Wasson,
Consultant; Telephone: (831) 254-5405.
Application No.: 05-00002.
Date Deemed Submitted: November 21, 2005.
Members (in addition to applicant): CTEG is a newly formed export
joint venture comprising the following members: Ingomar Packing
Company, Los Banos, CA; Los Gatos Tomato Products, Huron, CA; and SK
Foods, Lemoore, CA.
CTEG seeks a Certificate to engage in the Export Trade Activities
and Methods of Operation described below in the following Export Trade
and Export Markets:
Export Trade
Products
CTEG plans to export processed tomato products. Products that are
included are tomato paste, diced tomatoes, canned foodservice tomatoes,
canned retail tomatoes, and formulated glass retail products.
Export Markets
The Export Markets include all parts of the world except the United
States (the fifty states of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands).
Export Trade Activities and Methods of Operation
CTEG seeks certification for the following activities and exchanges
of information:
CTEG and/or one or more of its Members may on behalf of and with
the advice and assistance of its Members:
1. Export Promotion of Processed Tomatoes
a. Research, develop and conduct promotion and public relations
activities to develop demand for the exported products of the member
companies;
b. Seek export promotional funds jointly to combine efforts to
promote the companies' exports aimed at expanding existing markets and
creating new markets;
c. Develop and disseminate industry news reports of interest to
foreign buyers. Provide information collectively to prospective export
buyers regarding items such as crop inventory and structure of the U.S.
processed tomato industry; and
d. Organize joint representation at world tomato conferences;
2. Investment
Invest jointly in export infrastructure, activities, and
operations, such as:
a. Bill and collect from foreign buyers and provide collective
accounting, tax, legal and consulting assistance and services;
b. Write contracts for export payment terms;
c. Organize and conduct joint representation at tomato industry
conferences where foreign buyers are present;
d. Develop and maintain a website/newsletter and marketing
brochures with product and crop information for the benefit of foreign
customers;
e. Purchase/rent warehouse facilities to conduct export operations;
f. Combine purchases of inputs for export operations;
g. Negotiate and enter into agreements with providers of
transportation services for the export of processed tomato products;
h. Consolidate CTEG shipments to export markets;
i. Administer phytosanitary protocols to qualify the processed
tomato products for export markets;
3. Funding
Apply for and utilize export assistance and incentive programs, as
well as arrange financing through bank holding companies, governmental
programs, and other arrangements;
4. Export Market Development
a. Design and develop foreign marketing strategies for CTEG's
export markets; and
b. Design, develop, and market generic corporate and/or CTEG labels
for export;
5. Export Sales Prices
Establish export sale prices, minimum export sale prices, target
export sales prices and/or minimum target export sale prices, and other
terms of sale;
6. Joint Bidding
Engage in joint bidding or other joint selling arrangements for
export processed exported tomatoes and allocate export sales resulting
from such arrangements;
7. Quantities
Agree on quantities of processed tomatoes to be exported, provided
each member shall be required to dedicate only such quantity or
quantities as each such member shall independently determine;
8. Foreign Buyer Negotiations
Participate in negotiations and enter into agreements with foreign
buyers (including governments and private persons) regarding:
a. The quantities, time periods, prices and terms and conditions in
connection with actual or potential bona fide export opportunities; and
b. Non-tariff trade barriers in the export markets;
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9. Refusals to Deal
Refuse to quote prices for export products, or to market or sell
export products, to or for any customer in the export processed tomato
market, or any countries or geographical areas in the export markets;
10. Market and Customer Allocation
Allocate geographic areas or countries in the export markets and/or
customers in the export markets among members of the California Tomato
Export Group;
11. Exclusive and Nonexclusive Export Intermediaries
Enter into exclusive and nonexclusive agreements appointing one or
more export intermediaries for the sale of export products with price,
quantity, territorial and/or customer restrictions. ``Export
Intermediary'' means a person who acts as a distributor, sales
representative, sales or marketing agent, broker, or who performs
similar functions including providing or arranging for the provision of
export trade facilitation services;
12. Meetings
Meet with members of the Certificate and manager of the Certificate
present;
13. Non-Member Activities
a. Enter into agreements with non-members, whether or not
exclusive, to provide export trade facilitation services;
b. Purchase tomatoes from non-members to fulfill specific export
sales obligations, provided that CTEG and/or its members shall make
such purchases only on a transaction-by-transaction basis and when the
members are unable to supply, in a timely manner, the requisite
products at a price competitive under the circumstances. In no event
shall a non-member be included in any deliberations concerning any
export activities and operations; and
14. Government Liaison
Advise and cooperate with the United States and foreign governments
in:
a. Establishing procedures regulating the export of processed
tomato products, and
b. Fulfilling the phytosanitary and/or funding requirements imposed
by foreign governments for export of the processed tomato products.
CTEG may exchange the following information with and among the
Members as necessary to carry out export trade activities and methods
of operation:
1. Information about export sales and marketing efforts; selling
strategies, contract and spot pricing in the export markets;
2. Information regarding projected demand in the export markets;
3. Information about the customary terms of sales in export
markets;
4. Information about export prices and availability of competitor's
processed tomato products for sale in the export markets;
5. Specifications for processed tomato products by customers in the
export markets;
6. Information about terms and conditions of contracts for sale in
the export markets to be considered and/or bid on by CTEG and its
members;
7. Information about the price, quality, source, and delivery dates
of processed tomato products available for export by CTEG members;
8. Information about joint bidding and/or selling arrangements for
export markets;
9. Information regarding terms, conditions, and specifications of
particular export contracts for sale or to be considered and/or bid on
by the CTEG;
10. Information about expenses specific to exporting to and within
the export markets, sales and distribution networks established by CTEG
or its members in export markets;
11. Information about export customer credit terms and credit
history;
12. Information about United States and foreign legislation and
regulations, including federal marketing order programs, affecting
sales to the export markets;
13. Information about joint bidding or selling arrangements for the
export markets and allocations of sales resulting from such
arrangements among the members;
14. Information about expenses specific to exporting to and within
the export markets, including without limitation, transportation,
trans-or intermodal shipments, insurance, inland freight to port, port
storage, commissions, export sales, documentation; financing, customs,
duties, and taxes;
15. Information about CTEG's or its members' export operations,
including without limitation, sales and distribution networks
established by CTEG or its members in the export markets, and prior
export sales by members (including export price information);
16. Information regarding the forecasted quantity of processed
tomatoes secured through contracts by each member for upcoming seasons;
17. Information regarding the potential available supply of
processed tomato products available for export and not committed to
domestic markets in upcoming seasons; and
18. Information about global tomato crop supply, including planting
intentions, growing conditions, weather, disease, transportation,
consumer trends, health news, regulatory impacts and information that
impacts on the availability, conditions and costs to foreign buyers.
Dated: December 1, 2005.
Jeffrey Anspacher,
Director, Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR Doc. E5-6872 Filed 12-5-05; 8:45 am]
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