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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP): Notice Regarding the 2008
Annual Product Review: Competitive
Need Limitations (CNL) Warning List
and the Filing of Petitions Requesting
CNL Waivers
Office of the United States
Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the
public of the availability of eight-month
2008 import statistics and to announce
that the Office of the United States
Trade Representative (USTR) will not be
publishing a ‘‘warning list’’ of products
that may exceed statutory competitive
need limitations (CNLs), pertinent to the
2008 GSP Annual Review. Each
interested party is responsible for
conducting its own review of 2008
import data with regard to the possible
application of GSP CNLs and submitting
a petition to waive the CNLs if
necessary. This information can be
found on the U.S. International Trade
Commission (USITC) Web site (https://
dataweb.usitc.gov). The deadline for
submission of petitions requesting CNL
waivers for consideration in the 2008
GSP Annual Review is 5 p.m.,
Thursday, November 13, 2008. The list
of petitions for CNL waivers accepted
for review will be announced in the
Federal Register at a later date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Regina Teeter, GSP Program, Office of
the United States Trade Representative,
1724 F Street, NW., Room F–214,
Washington, DC 20508. The telephone
number is (202) 395–6971, the fax
number is (202) 395–9481, and the email address is
Regina_Teeter@ustr.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
countries during the calendar year did
not exceed the applicable de minimis
amount for that year. Comments on de
minimis waivers will be requested after
publication of a separate Federal
Register notice in February 2008.
I. Competitive Need Limitations
The GSP program provides for the
duty-free importation of designated
articles when imported from designated
beneficiary developing countries
(BDCs). The GSP program is authorized
by title V of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
U.S.C. 2461, et seq. ), as amended (the
‘‘1974 Act’’), and is implemented in
accordance with Executive Order 11888
of November 24, 1975, as modified by
subsequent Executive Orders and
Presidential Proclamations.
Section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act
sets out the two competitive need
limitations (CNLs). When the President
determines that a BDC exported to the
United States during a calendar year
either: (1) A quantity of a GSP-eligible
article having a value in excess of the
applicable amount for that year ($135
million for 2008), or (2) a quantity of a
GSP-eligible article having a value equal
to or greater than 50 percent of the value
of total U.S. imports of the article from
all countries (the ‘‘50 percent CNL’’), the
President must terminate GSP duty-free
treatment for that article from that BDC
by no later than July 1 of the next
calendar year. However, Section 503(d)
of the 1974 Act sets forth the criteria
under which the President may grant a
waiver of the CNL for articles imported
from specific BDCs. Product petitions
requesting CNL waivers for GSP-eligible
articles from beneficiary developing
countries that exceed the CNLs in 2008
must be filed in the 2008 Annual
Review.
Under section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974
Act, the President may also waive the 50
percent CNL with respect to an eligible
article imported from a BDC if the value
of total imports of that article from all
A. Eight Month Import Data and
Announcement That ‘‘Warning List’’
Will Not Be Published
II. Implementation of Competitive Need
Limitations
Exclusions from GSP duty-free
treatment where CNLs have been
exceeded will be effective July 1, 2009,
unless granted a waiver before that date
by the President. CNL exclusions will be
based on full calendar-year 2008 import
statistics. Full calendar-year 2008 data
for individual tariff subheadings will be
available in February 2009 on the Web
site of the U.S. International Trade
Commission at https://dataweb.usitc.
gov/.
III. 2008 Competitive Need Limitations
Petition Procedure
For the purposes of the Competitive
Need Limitations, the Office of the
United States Trade Representative
(USTR) will not be publishing a
‘‘warning list’’ of products that may
exceed statutory competitive need
limitations (CNLs). Each interested
party is responsible for conductingits
own review of 2008 import data with
regard to the possible application of
GSP CNLs. This information can be
found on the U.S. International Trade
Commission (USITC) Web site (https://
dataweb.usitc.gov). Interested parties,
including foreign governments, may
submit petitions to waive the
‘‘competitive need limitations’’ for
individual beneficiary developing
countries with respect to specific GSPeligible articles (these limits do not
apply to either least-developed
beneficiary developing countries or
AGOA beneficiary sub-Saharan African
countries). As announced in the May 15,
2008, Federal Register notice, petitions
requesting CNL waivers must be
received by the GSP Subcommittee of
the Trade Policy Staff Committee no
later than 5 p.m. on Thursday,
November 13, 2008, in order to be
considered in the 2008 Annual Review.
Petitions submitted after the deadline
will not be considered for review. The
list of product petitions accepted for
review will be announced in the
Federal Register at a later date.
As specified in 15 CFR 2007.1, all
petitions requesting CNL waivers for
GSP-eligible articles from beneficiary
developing countries must include a
detailed description of the product and
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the identification of the pertinent item
number of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
under which the product is classified.
The HTSUS number for the relevant
product should be provided at the 8digit level. Further, petitions requesting
CNL waivers for GSP-eligible articles
that exceed the CNLs in 2008 must be
filed in the 2008 Annual Review. In
order to allow petitioners an
opportunity to review additional 2008
U.S. import statistics, these petitions
may be filed after Wednesday, June 18,
2008, but must be received on or before
Thursday, November 13, 2008, in order
to be considered in the 2008 Annual
Review. Copies will be made available
for public inspection after the November
13, 2008, deadline.
B. Requirements for Submissions
Petitions must be submitted, in
English, to the Chairman of the GSP
Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff
Committee (TPSC) by the deadline set
forth in this notice.
Any person or party making a
submission is strongly advised to review
the GSP regulations and GSP Guidebook
(available at: https://www.ustr.gov/
Trade_Development/
Preference_Programs/GSP/
General_GSP_Program_Information/
Section_Index.html). Petitions with
respect to waivers of the ‘‘competitive
need limitations’’ must meet the
relevant information requirements listed
in sections 2007.1 (a) and (c) of the GSP
regulations. Furthermore, interested
parties submitting petitions that request
action with respect to specific products
should list on the first page of the
petition the following information after
typing ‘‘2008 Annual GSP Review’’: (1)
The requested action to waive the
competitive need limits; (2) the HTSUS
8-digit subheading in which the product
is classified; and (3) the beneficiary
developing country.
In order to facilitate prompt
consideration of submissions, USTR
requires the petitions to be set out in
digital files attached to e-mails
transmitted to the following address:
FR0807@ustr.eop.gov (Note: The digit
before the number ‘‘8’’ in the e-mail
address is the number ‘‘zero’’ and not a
letter.) If you are unable to provide
submissions by e-mail, please contact
Regina Teeter at USTR’s GSP Office at
(202) 395–6971 to arrange for an
alternative method of transmission. For
security reasons, hand-delivered
submissions will not be accepted. Email submissions should be single copy
transmissions in English with the total
submission including attachments not
to exceed 30 single-spaced standard
letter sized pages in 12-point type and
three megabytes as a digital file attached
to an e-mail transmission. E-mails
should use the following subject line:
‘‘2008 Annual GSP Review-CNLW
Petition.’’ The transmittal message or
cover letter accompanying a submission
must be set out exclusively in the digital
file attached to the e-mail—not in the
message portion of the e-mail—and
must include the sender’s name,
organization name, address, telephone
and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
Digital files must be submitted in one
of the following formats: WordPerfect
(‘‘.WPD’’), MSWord (‘‘.DOC’’), text
(‘‘.TXT’’), or Adobe (‘‘PDF’’) files.
Documents cannot be submitted as
electronic image files or contain
embedded images (for example, ‘‘.JPG’’,
‘‘.TIF’’, ‘‘.BMP’’, or ‘‘.GIF’’). Spreadsheet
data may be submitted as Excel files,
formatted for printing on 81⁄2 x 11 inch
paper. To the extent possible, any data
accompanying the submission should be
included in the same file as the
submission itself, and not in a separate
file.
If the submission contains business
confidential information that the
submitter wishes to protect from public
disclosure, the confidential version
must be marked ‘‘BUSINESS
CONFIDENTIAL’’ at the top and bottom
of each page. In addition, the
submission must be accompanied by a
non-confidential version that indicates,
with asterisks, where confidential
information was redacted or deleted.
The top and bottom of each page of the
non-confidential version must be
marked either ‘‘PUBLIC VERSION’’ or
‘‘NON-CONFIDENTIAL’’. Business
confidential comments that are
submitted without the required
markings or are not accompanied by a
properly marked non-confidential
version as set forth above may not be
accepted or may be treated as public
documents.
The digital file name assigned to any
business confidential version of a
submission should begin with the
characters ‘‘BC-’’, and the file name of
the public version should begin with the
characters ‘‘P-’’. The ‘‘P-’’ or ‘‘BC-’’
should be followed by the name of the
person (government, company, union,
association, etc.) making the
submission.
Public versions of all documents in
response to this notice will be available
for review approximately one week after
the due date by appointment in the
USTR public reading room, 1724 F
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
Appointments may be made from 9:30
a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
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Monday through Friday, by calling (202)
395–6186.
Marideth Sandler,
Executive Director, GSP Program, Chairman,
GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff
Committee.
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice Regarding the
2008 Annual Product Review: Competitive Need Limitations (CNL) Warning
List and the Filing of Petitions Requesting CNL Waivers
AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public of the availability of
eight-month 2008 import statistics and to announce that the Office of
the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will not be publishing a
``warning list'' of products that may exceed statutory competitive need
limitations (CNLs), pertinent to the 2008 GSP Annual Review. Each
interested party is responsible for conducting its own review of 2008
import data with regard to the possible application of GSP CNLs and
submitting a petition to waive the CNLs if necessary. This information
can be found on the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) Web
site (https://dataweb.usitc.gov). The deadline for submission of
petitions requesting CNL waivers for consideration in the 2008 GSP
Annual Review is 5 p.m., Thursday, November 13, 2008. The list of
petitions for CNL waivers accepted for review will be announced in the
Federal Register at a later date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Regina Teeter, GSP Program, Office of
the United States Trade Representative, 1724 F Street, NW., Room F-214,
Washington, DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971, the fax
number is (202) 395-9481, and the e-mail address is Regina_
Teeter@ustr.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Competitive Need Limitations
The GSP program provides for the duty-free importation of
designated articles when imported from designated beneficiary
developing countries (BDCs). The GSP program is authorized by title V
of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461, et seq. ), as amended (the
``1974 Act''), and is implemented in accordance with Executive Order
11888 of November 24, 1975, as modified by subsequent Executive Orders
and Presidential Proclamations.
Section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act sets out the two competitive
need limitations (CNLs). When the President determines that a BDC
exported to the United States during a calendar year either: (1) A
quantity of a GSP-eligible article having a value in excess of the
applicable amount for that year ($135 million for 2008), or (2) a
quantity of a GSP-eligible article having a value equal to or greater
than 50 percent of the value of total U.S. imports of the article from
all countries (the ``50 percent CNL''), the President must terminate
GSP duty-free treatment for that article from that BDC by no later than
July 1 of the next calendar year. However, Section 503(d) of the 1974
Act sets forth the criteria under which the President may grant a
waiver of the CNL for articles imported from specific BDCs. Product
petitions requesting CNL waivers for GSP-eligible articles from
beneficiary developing countries that exceed the CNLs in 2008 must be
filed in the 2008 Annual Review.
Under section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act, the President may also
waive the 50 percent CNL with respect to an eligible article imported
from a BDC if the value of total imports of that article from all
countries during the calendar year did not exceed the applicable de
minimis amount for that year. Comments on de minimis waivers will be
requested after publication of a separate Federal Register notice in
February 2008.
II. Implementation of Competitive Need Limitations
Exclusions from GSP duty-free treatment where CNLs have been
exceeded will be effective July 1, 2009, unless granted a waiver before
that date by the President. CNL exclusions will be based on full
calendar-year 2008 import statistics. Full calendar-year 2008 data for
individual tariff subheadings will be available in February 2009 on the
Web site of the U.S. International Trade Commission at https://
dataweb.usitc. gov/.
III. 2008 Competitive Need Limitations Petition Procedure
A. Eight Month Import Data and Announcement That ``Warning List'' Will
Not Be Published
For the purposes of the Competitive Need Limitations, the Office of
the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will not be publishing a
``warning list'' of products that may exceed statutory competitive need
limitations (CNLs). Each interested party is responsible for
conductingits own review of 2008 import data with regard to the
possible application of GSP CNLs. This information can be found on the
U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) Web site (https://
dataweb.usitc.gov). Interested parties, including foreign governments,
may submit petitions to waive the ``competitive need limitations'' for
individual beneficiary developing countries with respect to specific
GSP-eligible articles (these limits do not apply to either least-
developed beneficiary developing countries or AGOA beneficiary sub-
Saharan African countries). As announced in the May 15, 2008, Federal
Register notice, petitions requesting CNL waivers must be received by
the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff Committee no later than
5 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2008, in order to be considered in the
2008 Annual Review. Petitions submitted after the deadline will not be
considered for review. The list of product petitions accepted for
review will be announced in the Federal Register at a later date.
As specified in 15 CFR 2007.1, all petitions requesting CNL waivers
for GSP-eligible articles from beneficiary developing countries must
include a detailed description of the product and
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the identification of the pertinent item number of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under which the product is
classified. The HTSUS number for the relevant product should be
provided at the 8-digit level. Further, petitions requesting CNL
waivers for GSP-eligible articles that exceed the CNLs in 2008 must be
filed in the 2008 Annual Review. In order to allow petitioners an
opportunity to review additional 2008 U.S. import statistics, these
petitions may be filed after Wednesday, June 18, 2008, but must be
received on or before Thursday, November 13, 2008, in order to be
considered in the 2008 Annual Review. Copies will be made available for
public inspection after the November 13, 2008, deadline.
B. Requirements for Submissions
Petitions must be submitted, in English, to the Chairman of the GSP
Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) by the deadline
set forth in this notice.
Any person or party making a submission is strongly advised to
review the GSP regulations and GSP Guidebook (available at: https://
www.ustr.gov/Trade_Development/Preference_Programs/GSP/General_GSP_
Program_Information/Section_Index.html). Petitions with respect to
waivers of the ``competitive need limitations'' must meet the relevant
information requirements listed in sections 2007.1 (a) and (c) of the
GSP regulations. Furthermore, interested parties submitting petitions
that request action with respect to specific products should list on
the first page of the petition the following information after typing
``2008 Annual GSP Review'': (1) The requested action to waive the
competitive need limits; (2) the HTSUS 8-digit subheading in which the
product is classified; and (3) the beneficiary developing country.
In order to facilitate prompt consideration of submissions, USTR
requires the petitions to be set out in digital files attached to e-
mails transmitted to the following address: FR0807@ustr.eop.gov (Note:
The digit before the number ``8'' in the e-mail address is the number
``zero'' and not a letter.) If you are unable to provide submissions by
e-mail, please contact Regina Teeter at USTR's GSP Office at (202) 395-
6971 to arrange for an alternative method of transmission. For security
reasons, hand-delivered submissions will not be accepted. E-mail
submissions should be single copy transmissions in English with the
total submission including attachments not to exceed 30 single-spaced
standard letter sized pages in 12-point type and three megabytes as a
digital file attached to an e-mail transmission. E-mails should use the
following subject line: ``2008 Annual GSP Review-CNLW Petition.'' The
transmittal message or cover letter accompanying a submission must be
set out exclusively in the digital file attached to the e-mail--not in
the message portion of the e-mail--and must include the sender's name,
organization name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail
address.
Digital files must be submitted in one of the following formats:
WordPerfect (``.WPD''), MSWord (``.DOC''), text (``.TXT''), or Adobe
(``PDF'') files. Documents cannot be submitted as electronic image
files or contain embedded images (for example, ``.JPG'', ``.TIF'',
``.BMP'', or ``.GIF''). Spreadsheet data may be submitted as Excel
files, formatted for printing on 8\1/2\ x 11 inch paper. To the extent
possible, any data accompanying the submission should be included in
the same file as the submission itself, and not in a separate file.
If the submission contains business confidential information that
the submitter wishes to protect from public disclosure, the
confidential version must be marked ``BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL'' at the
top and bottom of each page. In addition, the submission must be
accompanied by a non-confidential version that indicates, with
asterisks, where confidential information was redacted or deleted. The
top and bottom of each page of the non-confidential version must be
marked either ``PUBLIC VERSION'' or ``NON-CONFIDENTIAL''. Business
confidential comments that are submitted without the required markings
or are not accompanied by a properly marked non-confidential version as
set forth above may not be accepted or may be treated as public
documents.
The digital file name assigned to any business confidential version
of a submission should begin with the characters ``BC-'', and the file
name of the public version should begin with the characters ``P-''. The
``P-'' or ``BC-'' should be followed by the name of the person
(government, company, union, association, etc.) making the submission.
Public versions of all documents in response to this notice will be
available for review approximately one week after the due date by
appointment in the USTR public reading room, 1724 F Street, NW.,
Washington, DC. Appointments may be made from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1
p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, by calling (202) 395-6186.
Marideth Sandler,
Executive Director, GSP Program, Chairman, GSP Subcommittee of the
Trade Policy Staff Committee.
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