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COMMITTEE FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE
AGREEMENTS
Solicitation of Public Comments
Regarding Possible Safeguard Action
on Imports from Honduras of Cotton,
Wool, and Man-Made Fiber Socks
August 16, 2007.
The Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(the Committee)
ACTION: Solicitation of public comments
regarding possible safeguard action on
imports from Honduras of cotton, wool,
and man-made fiber socks (merged
Category 332/432 and 632 part).
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Committee has decided,
on its own initiative, to consider
whether imports of Honduran cotton,
wool, and man-made fiber socks
(merged Category 332/432 and 632 part)
are being imported into the United
States in such increased quantities, in
absolute terms or relative to the
domestic market for such socks, and
under such conditions as to cause
serious damage, or actual threat thereof,
to the U.S. industry producing such
socks. The Committee is soliciting
public comments to assist it in
considering this issue and in
determining whether safeguard action is
appropriate. Comments must be
submitted by September 20, 2007 to the
Chairman, Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements,
Room 3001A, United States Department
of Commerce, 14th and Constitution
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sergio Botero, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,
(202) 482-4058.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Authority: Title III, Subtitle B,
Section 321 through Section 328 of the
Dominican Republic-Central America-United
States Free Trade Agreement (‘‘CAFTA-DR’’
or the ‘‘Agreement’’) Implementation Act;
Article 3.23 of the Dominican RepublicCentral America-United States Free Trade
Agreement.
BACKGROUND:
The CAFTA-DR textile and apparel
safeguard applies when, as a result of
the elimination of a customs duty under
the Agreement, a textile or apparel
article of the Dominican Republic, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or
Nicaragua (‘‘CAFTA-DR country’’), 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,
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or actual threat thereof, to a domestic
industry producing an article that is
like, or directly competitive with, the
imported article. In making this
determination, the Committee: (1) shall
examine the effect of increased imports
on the domestic industry as reflected in
such relevant economic factors as
output, productivity, utilization of
capacity, inventories, market share,
exports, wages, employment, domestic
prices, profits, and investment, none of
which is necessarily decisive; and (2)
shall not consider changes in
technology or consumer preference as
factors supporting a determination of
serious damage or actual threat thereof.
If a determination is affirmative, the
Committee will provide written notice
of its decision to the specified CAFTADR country and will consult with said
party upon its request. Consultations
with the specified CAFTA-DR country
will begin without delay and shall be
completed within 60 days of the date of
the receipt of the request for
consultations. The Committee shall
make a determination on whether to
apply a safeguard measure within 30
days of completion of the consultations.
If the Committee makes a
determination to apply a safeguard
measure, the Committee may provide
import tariff relief to the domestic
industry to the extent necessary to
remedy or prevent the serious damage
or actual threat thereof and to facilitate
adjustment by the domestic industry to
import competition. Such relief would
consist of an increase in the rate of duty
on the article to a level that does not
exceed the lesser of the applied U.S.
normal trade relations (NTR)/mostfavored-nation (MFN) duty rate for the
article or the applied U.S. NTR (MFN)
duty rate in effect on the day before the
Agreement entered into force. The
import tariff relief is effective beginning
on the date that the Committee’s
affirmative determination is published
in the Federal Register. The maximum
period of import tariff relief shall be
three years. However, if the initial
period for import relief is less than three
years, the Committee may extend the
period of import tariff relief to the
maximum three-year period if the
Committee determines that the
continuation is necessary to remedy or
prevent serious damage or actual threat
thereof by the domestic industry to
import competition, and that the
domestic industry is, in fact, making a
positive adjustment to import
competition. Import tariff relief may not
be imposed for an aggregate period
greater than three years.
Under Article 3.23.6 of the
Agreement, if the United States provides
relief to a domestic industry under the
textile and apparel safeguard, it must
provide the country whose good is
subject to the measure ‘‘mutually agreed
trade liberalizing compensation in the
form of concessions having substantially
equivalent trade effects or equivalent to
the value of the additional customs
duties expected to result from the textile
safeguard measure.’’ Such concessions
shall be limited to textile and apparel
articles, unless the United States and
the specified CAFTA-DR country agree
otherwise. If the United States and the
CAFTA-DR country are unable to agree
on trade liberalizing compensation, that
country may increase customs duties on
any U.S. articles to achieve substantially
equivalent trade effects. The obligation
to provide compensation terminates
upon termination of the safeguard relief.
In accordance with section 4 of its
procedures for considering action under
the CAFTA-DR textile and apparel
safeguard, (71 FR 25157, April 28,
2006), the Committee has decided, on
its own initiative, to consider whether
imports of Honduran cotton, wool, and
man-made fiber socks are being
imported into the United States in such
increased quantities, in absolute terms
or relative to the domestic market for
cotton, wool, and man-made fiber socks,
and under such conditions as to cause
serious damage, or actual threat thereof,
to the U.S. industry producing these
products.
The Committee is soliciting public
comments on this matter, in particular
with regard to whether imports of
Honduran cotton, wool, and man-made
fiber socks are causing serious damage,
or actual threat thereof, to a domestic
industry. It invites the public to provide
information and analysis to assist the
Committee in considering whether
serious damage, or actual threat thereof,
exists, and, if so, the role of imports of
Honduran articles in causing that
serious damage, or actual threat thereof.
Such information may include the
following: recent and historical data
regarding the U.S. market for cotton,
wool, and man-made fiber socks
(including imports and U.S. production
data); and a description of how, if at all,
imports of Honduran cotton, wool, and
man-made fiber socks will affect the
domestic industry, as reflected in such
relevant economic factors as changes in
productivity, utilization of capacity,
inventories, exports, wages,
employment, domestic prices, profits,
and investment, and any other
information, relating to the existence of
actual threat of serious damage. Any
member of the public who provides
information to the Committee should
also indicate the sources from which
information provided was obtained.
In providing comments, the public
may wish to consider the following
data:
U.S. IMPORTS OF COTTON, WOOL, AND MAN-MADE FIBER SOCKS, MERGED CATEGORY 332/432
AND 632 PART 1 (DOZEN PAIRS).
Period
Imports from the World
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2005
2006
Year-to-date June 2006
Year-to-date June 2007
Year-ending June 2006
Year-ending June 2007
219,195,035
233,245,477
111,395,689
120,235,661
221,028,674
242,085,449
Honduras’ Share of Imports
(%)
Imports from Honduras
10,946,828
15,216,853
7,421,253
12,256,786
13,183,488
20,052,386
5.0
6.5
6.7
10.2
6.0
8.3
1 The relevant product of Honduran origin is imports from Honduras in Category 332/432 and 632 part, which consists of twenty-three Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) sub-headings: 6115.10.3000,
6115.10.4000, 6115.10.5500, 6115.91.0000, 6115.92.6000, 6115.92.9000, 6115.93.6010, 6115.93.6020,
6115.93.9010, 6115.93.9020, 6115.94.0000, 6115.95.6000, 6115.95.9000, 6115.96.6010, 6115.96.6020,
6115.96.9010, 6115.96.9020, 6115.99.1410, 6115.99.1420, 6115.99.1810, 6115.99.1820, 6115.99.1910 and
6115.99.1920.
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U.S. PRODUCTION, IMPORTS, MARKET AND DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE OF COTTON, WOOL, AND MAN-MADE
FIBER SOCKS, MERGED CATEGORY 332/432 AND 632 PART (DOZEN PAIRS)
Period
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2005
2006
Year-to-date March 2006
Year-to-date March 2007
Production
133,631,000
116,003,000
29,084,000
23,458,000
Comments must be in English, and must
be received no later than September 20,
2007. Comments must be submitted in
writing and electronic mail.
(1)An electronic mail (‘‘email’’) version
of the comments must be either in PDF,
Word, or Word-Perfect format, and sent
to cafta-dr-safeguard@ita.doc.gov.
Comments must have a bolded heading
stating ‘‘Public Version’’, and all
business confidential information must
be deleted and substituted with
asterisks. No business confidential
information should be submitted in the
‘‘email’’ version of the document.
(2)The original signed comments must
be mailed to the Chairman, Committee
for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements, Room H3001A, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th and
Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington,
DC 20230. Any business confidential
information upon which an interested
person wishes to rely must be included
in the original signed comments only.
Brackets must be placed around all
business confidential information.
Comments containing business
confidential information must have a
bolded heading stating ‘‘Confidential
Version.’’ Attachments considered
business confidential information must
have a heading stating ‘‘Business
Confidential Information’’. The
Committee will protect from disclosure
any business confidential information
that is marked ‘‘business confidential’’
to the full extent permitted by law.
Except for the inclusion of business
confidential information, the two
versions of comments should be
identical.
(3) All comments submitted via ‘‘email’’
will be made available for public
inspection at Import Administration’s
Central Records Unit, Room B-099,
between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. on business days. In addition, the
‘‘email’’ version of the comments will be
posted for public review on the Office
of Textile and Apparel (‘‘OTEXA’’),
CAFTA–DR Free Trade Agreement
website at https://otexa.ita.doc.gov/
tradeagree2007.htm
If a comment alleges that there is no
serious damage, or actual threat thereof,
or that the reduction or elimination of
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World Imports
219,195,035
233,245,477
50,450,041
57,017,494
352,826,035
349,248,477
79,534,041
80,475,494
the duty did not result in an increase in
imports so as to cause serious damage,
or actual threat thereof, the Committee
will closely review any supporting
information and documentation, such as
information about domestic production
or prices of like or directly competitive
products. While we are taking
comments from the public, particular
consideration will be given to comments
representing the views of actual
producers in the United States of a like
or directly competitive product.
Any interested party may submit
information to rebut, clarify, or correct
public comments submitted by any
other interested party at any time prior
to the close of the public comment
period. If public comments are
submitted less than 10 days before, or
on, the applicable deadline for
submission of such public comments,
an interested party may submit
information to rebut, clarify, or correct
the public comments no later than 10
days after the applicable deadline for
submission of public comments.
Rebuttal comments must meet the
requirements outlined in (1) through (2)
of this Notice.
The Committee will make a
determination within 60 calendar days
of the close of the comment period as
to whether the United States will
request consultations with Honduras. 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, as a result of the
reduction or elimination of a duty,
Honduran cotton, wool, and man-made
fiber socks, merged Category 332/432
and 632 part are 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 the U.S. industry producing cotton,
wool, and man-made fiber socks, the
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(%)
Market
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37.9
33.2
36.6
29.1
United States will promptly notify
Honduras in accordance with CAFTADR and will enter into consultations
upon request.
R. Matthew Priest,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation
of Textile Agreements.
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COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Solicitation of Public Comments Regarding Possible Safeguard
Action on Imports from Honduras of Cotton, Wool, and Man-Made Fiber
Socks
August 16, 2007.
AGENCY: The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (the
Committee)
ACTION: Solicitation of public comments regarding possible safeguard
action on imports from Honduras of cotton, wool, and man-made fiber
socks (merged Category 332/432 and 632 part).
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SUMMARY: The Committee has decided, on its own initiative, to consider
whether imports of Honduran cotton, wool, and man-made fiber socks
(merged Category 332/432 and 632 part) are being imported into the
United States in such increased quantities, in absolute terms or
relative to the domestic market for such socks, and under such
conditions as to cause serious damage, or actual threat thereof, to the
U.S. industry producing such socks. The Committee is soliciting public
comments to assist it in considering this issue and in determining
whether safeguard action is appropriate. Comments must be submitted by
September 20, 2007 to the Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of
Textile Agreements, Room 3001A, United States Department of Commerce,
14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sergio Botero, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 482-4058.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Authority: Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321 through
Section 328 of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States
Free Trade Agreement (``CAFTA-DR'' or the ``Agreement'')
Implementation Act; Article 3.23 of the Dominican Republic-Central
America-United States Free Trade Agreement.
BACKGROUND:
The CAFTA-DR textile and apparel safeguard applies when, as a
result of the elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a
textile or apparel article of the Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua (``CAFTA-DR country''), 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,
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or actual threat thereof, to a domestic industry producing an article
that is like, or directly competitive with, the imported article. In
making this determination, the Committee: (1) shall examine the effect
of increased imports on the domestic industry as reflected in such
relevant economic factors as output, productivity, utilization of
capacity, inventories, market share, exports, wages, employment,
domestic prices, profits, and investment, none of which is necessarily
decisive; and (2) shall not consider changes in technology or consumer
preference as factors supporting a determination of serious damage or
actual threat thereof. If a determination is affirmative, the Committee
will provide written notice of its decision to the specified CAFTA-DR
country and will consult with said party upon its request.
Consultations with the specified CAFTA-DR country will begin without
delay and shall be completed within 60 days of the date of the receipt
of the request for consultations. The Committee shall make a
determination on whether to apply a safeguard measure within 30 days of
completion of the consultations.
If the Committee makes a determination to apply a safeguard
measure, the Committee may provide import tariff relief to the domestic
industry to the extent necessary to remedy or prevent the serious
damage or actual threat thereof and to facilitate adjustment by the
domestic industry to import competition. Such relief would consist of
an increase in the rate of duty on the article to a level that does not
exceed the lesser of the applied U.S. normal trade relations (NTR)/
most- favored-nation (MFN) duty rate for the article or the applied
U.S. NTR (MFN) duty rate in effect on the day before the Agreement
entered into force. The import tariff relief is effective beginning on
the date that the Committee's affirmative determination is published in
the Federal Register. The maximum period of import tariff relief shall
be three years. However, if the initial period for import relief is
less than three years, the Committee may extend the period of import
tariff relief to the maximum three-year period if the Committee
determines that the continuation is necessary to remedy or prevent
serious damage or actual threat thereof by the domestic industry to
import competition, and that the domestic industry is, in fact, making
a positive adjustment to import competition. Import tariff relief may
not be imposed for an aggregate period greater than three years.
Under Article 3.23.6 of the Agreement, if the United States
provides relief to a domestic industry under the textile and apparel
safeguard, it must provide the country whose good is subject to the
measure ``mutually agreed trade liberalizing compensation in the form
of concessions having substantially equivalent trade effects or
equivalent to the value of the additional customs duties expected to
result from the textile safeguard measure.'' Such concessions shall be
limited to textile and apparel articles, unless the United States and
the specified CAFTA-DR country agree otherwise. If the United States
and the CAFTA-DR country are unable to agree on trade liberalizing
compensation, that country may increase customs duties on any U.S.
articles to achieve substantially equivalent trade effects. The
obligation to provide compensation terminates upon termination of the
safeguard relief.
In accordance with section 4 of its procedures for considering
action under the CAFTA-DR textile and apparel safeguard, (71 FR 25157,
April 28, 2006), the Committee has decided, on its own initiative, to
consider whether imports of Honduran cotton, wool, and man-made fiber
socks are being imported into the United States in such increased
quantities, in absolute terms or relative to the domestic market for
cotton, wool, and man-made fiber socks, and under such conditions as to
cause serious damage, or actual threat thereof, to the U.S. industry
producing these products.
The Committee is soliciting public comments on this matter, in
particular with regard to whether imports of Honduran cotton, wool, and
man-made fiber socks are causing serious damage, or actual threat
thereof, to a domestic industry. It invites the public to provide
information and analysis to assist the Committee in considering whether
serious damage, or actual threat thereof, exists, and, if so, the role
of imports of Honduran articles in causing that serious damage, or
actual threat thereof. Such information may include the following:
recent and historical data regarding the U.S. market for cotton, wool,
and man-made fiber socks (including imports and U.S. production data);
and a description of how, if at all, imports of Honduran cotton, wool,
and man-made fiber socks will affect the domestic industry, as
reflected in such relevant economic factors as changes in productivity,
utilization of capacity, inventories, exports, wages, employment,
domestic prices, profits, and investment, and any other information,
relating to the existence of actual threat of serious damage. Any
member of the public who provides information to the Committee should
also indicate the sources from which information provided was obtained.
In providing comments, the public may wish to consider the
following data:
U.S. Imports of Cotton, Wool, and Man-Made Fiber Socks, Merged Category 332/432 and 632 part \1\ (Dozen pairs).
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Period Imports from the World Imports from Honduras Honduras' Share of Imports (%)
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2005 219,195,035 10,946,828 5.0
2006 233,245,477 15,216,853 6.5
Year-to-date June 2006 111,395,689 7,421,253 6.7
Year-to-date June 2007 120,235,661 12,256,786 10.2
Year-ending June 2006 221,028,674 13,183,488 6.0
Year-ending June 2007 242,085,449 20,052,386 8.3
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\1\ The relevant product of Honduran origin is imports from Honduras in Category 332/432 and 632 part, which consists of twenty-three Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTS) sub-headings: 6115.10.3000, 6115.10.4000, 6115.10.5500, 6115.91.0000, 6115.92.6000, 6115.92.9000, 6115.93.6010,
6115.93.6020, 6115.93.9010, 6115.93.9020, 6115.94.0000, 6115.95.6000, 6115.95.9000, 6115.96.6010, 6115.96.6020, 6115.96.9010, 6115.96.9020,
6115.99.1410, 6115.99.1420, 6115.99.1810, 6115.99.1820, 6115.99.1910 and 6115.99.1920.
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U.S. Production, Imports, Market and Domestic Market Share of Cotton, Wool, and Man-Made Fiber Socks, Merged Category 332/432 and 632 part (Dozen Pairs)
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Period Production World Imports Market Domestic Market Share (%)
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2005 133,631,000 219,195,035 352,826,035 37.9
2006 116,003,000 233,245,477 349,248,477 33.2
Year-to-date March 2006 29,084,000 50,450,041 79,534,041 36.6
Year-to-date March 2007 23,458,000 57,017,494 80,475,494 29.1
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Comments must be in English, and must be received no later than
September 20, 2007. Comments must be submitted in writing and
electronic mail.
(1)An electronic mail (``email'') version of the comments must be
either in PDF, Word, or Word-Perfect format, and sent to cafta-dr-
safeguard@ita.doc.gov. Comments must have a bolded heading stating
``Public Version'', and all business confidential information must be
deleted and substituted with asterisks. No business confidential
information should be submitted in the ``email'' version of the
document.
(2)The original signed comments must be mailed to the Chairman,
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, Room H3001A,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue N.W.,
Washington, DC 20230. Any business confidential information upon which
an interested person wishes to rely must be included in the original
signed comments only. Brackets must be placed around all business
confidential information. Comments containing business confidential
information must have a bolded heading stating ``Confidential
Version.'' Attachments considered business confidential information
must have a heading stating ``Business Confidential Information''. The
Committee will protect from disclosure any business confidential
information that is marked ``business confidential'' to the full extent
permitted by law. Except for the inclusion of business confidential
information, the two versions of comments should be identical.
(3) All comments submitted via ``email'' will be made available for
public inspection at Import Administration's Central Records Unit, Room
B-099, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on business days.
In addition, the ``email'' version of the comments will be posted for
public review on the Office of Textile and Apparel (``OTEXA''), CAFTA-
DR Free Trade Agreement website at https://otexa.ita.doc.gov/
tradeagree2007.htm
If a comment alleges that there is no serious damage, or actual
threat thereof, or that the reduction or elimination of the duty did
not result in an increase in imports so as to cause serious damage, or
actual threat thereof, the Committee will closely review any supporting
information and documentation, such as information about domestic
production or prices of like or directly competitive products. While we
are taking comments from the public, particular consideration will be
given to comments representing the views of actual producers in the
United States of a like or directly competitive product.
Any interested party may submit information to rebut, clarify, or
correct public comments submitted by any other interested party at any
time prior to the close of the public comment period. If public
comments are submitted less than 10 days before, or on, the applicable
deadline for submission of such public comments, an interested party
may submit information to rebut, clarify, or correct the public
comments no later than 10 days after the applicable deadline for
submission of public comments. Rebuttal comments must meet the
requirements outlined in (1) through (2) of this Notice.
The Committee will make a determination within 60 calendar days of
the close of the comment period as to whether the United States will
request consultations with Honduras. 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, as a result of the reduction or
elimination of a duty, Honduran cotton, wool, and man-made fiber socks,
merged Category 332/432 and 632 part are 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 the U.S. industry
producing cotton, wool, and man-made fiber socks, the United States
will promptly notify Honduras in accordance with CAFTA-DR and will
enter into consultations upon request.
R. Matthew Priest,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc. E7-16450 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
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