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clinker from Japan 1 pursuant to section
751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). See Notice of
Initiation.
As a result of this sunset review, the
Department determined that revocation
of the antidumping duty order on gray
portland cement and clinker from Japan
would likely lead to continuation or
recurrence of dumping and notified the
ITC of the magnitude of the margins
likely to prevail should the order be
revoked. See Gray Portland Cement and
Clinker From Japan: Final Results of the
Expedited Third Sunset Review of the
Antidumping Duty Order, 76 FR 54206
(August 31, 2011).
On December 8, 2011, the ITC
published its determination in the
Federal Register, pursuant to section
751(c) of the Act, that revocation of the
antidumping duty order on gray
portland cement and clinker from Japan
would likely lead to continuation or
recurrence of material injury to an
industry in the United States within a
reasonably foreseeable time. See Gray
Portland Cement and Clinker From
Japan, 76 FR 76760 (December 8, 2011),
and USITC Publication 4281 (December
2011) entitled Gray Portland Cement
and Cement Clinker From Japan (Inv.
Nos. 731–TA–461 (Third Review)).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the order are
cement and cement clinker from Japan.
Cement is a hydraulic cement and the
primary component of concrete. Cement
clinker, an intermediate material
produced when manufacturing cement,
has no use other than grinding into
finished cement. Microfine cement was
specifically excluded from the
antidumping duty order. Cement is
currently classifiable under the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) item
number 2523.29 and cement clinker is
currently classifiable under HTS item
number 2523.10. Cement has also been
entered under HTS item number
2523.90 as ‘‘other hydraulic cements.’’
The HTS item numbers are provided for
convenience and customs purposes. The
written product description remains
dispositive as to the scope of the
product covered by the order.2
1 See Antidumping Duty Order and Amendment
to Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Gray Portland Cement and Clinker From
Japan, 56 FR 21658 (May 10, 1991), and Amended
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value and Antidumping Order: Gray Portland
Cement and Clinker From Japan, 60 FR 39150
(August 1, 1995).
2 The Department has made two scope rulings
regarding subject merchandise. See Scope Rulings,
57 FR 19602 (May 7, 1992) (classes G and H of oil
well cement are within the scope of the order), and
Scope Rulings, 58 FR 27542 (May 10, 1993)
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Continuation of Order
As a result of the determination by the
Department and the ITC that revocation
of the antidumping duty order would
likely lead to continuation or recurrence
of dumping and material injury to an
industry in the United States, pursuant
to section 751(d)(2) of the Act, the
Department hereby orders the
continuation of the antidumping duty
order on gray portland cement and
clinker from Japan.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
will continue to collect antidumping
cash deposits at the rates in effect at the
time of entry for all imports of subject
merchandise. The effective date of the
continuation of the order will be the
date of publication of this notice of
continuation in the Federal Register.
Pursuant to sections 751(c)(2) and
751(c)(6)(A) of the Act, the Department
intends to initiate the next five-year
review of this order not later than 30
days prior to the fifth anniversary of the
effective date of continuation.
This five-year sunset review and this
notice is in accordance with section
751(c) of the Act and is published
pursuant to section 777(i) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.218(f)(4).
Dated: December 8, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of
Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti
Under the Haitian Hemispheric
Opportunity Through Partnership for
Encouragement Act (HOPE)
Department of Commerce,
International Trade Administration.
ACTION: Notification of Annual
Quantitative Limit on Certain Apparel
under HOPE.
AGENCY:
DATES:
Effective Date: December 20,
2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maria Dybczak, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,
(202) 482–3651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: The Caribbean Basin
Recovery Act (‘‘CBERA’’), as amended
(‘‘Nittetsu Super Fine’’ cement is not within the
scope of the order).
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by the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity
Through Partnership for Encouragement
Act of 2006 (‘‘HOPE’’), Title V of the
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006
and the Food, Conservation, and Energy
Act of 2008 (‘‘HOPE II’’); the Haiti
Economic Lift Program Act of 2010
(‘‘HELP’’); and implemented by
Presidential Proclamations No. 8114, 72
FR 13655, 13659 (March 22, 2007), and
No. 8596, 75 FR 68153 (November 4,
2010).
HOPE provides for duty-free
treatment for certain apparel articles
imported directly from Haiti. Section
213A(b)(1)(B) of HOPE outlines the
requirements for certain apparel articles
to qualify for duty-free treatment under
a ‘‘value-added’’ program. In order to
qualify for duty-free treatment, apparel
articles must be wholly assembled, or
knit-to-shape, in Haiti from any
combination of fabrics, fabric
components, components knit-to-shape,
and yarns, as long as the sum of the cost
or value of materials produced in Haiti
or one or more countries, as described
in HOPE, or any combination thereof,
plus the direct costs of processing
operations performed in Haiti or one or
more countries, as described in HOPE,
or any combination thereof, is not less
than an applicable percentage of the
declared customs value of such apparel
articles. Pursuant to HELP, the
applicable percentage for the period
December 20, 2011 through December
19, 2012, is 50 percent or more.
For every twelve month period
following the effective date of HOPE,
duty-free treatment under the valueadded program is subject to a
quantitative limitation. HOPE provides
that the quantitative limitation will be
recalculated for each subsequent 12month period. Section 213A(b)(1)(C) of
HOPE, as amended by HOPE II and
HELP, requires that, for the twelvemonth period beginning on December
20, 2011, the quantitative limitation for
qualifying apparel imported from Haiti
under the value-added program will be
an amount equivalent to 1.25 percent of
the aggregate square meter equivalent of
all apparel articles imported into the
United States in the most recent 12month period for which data are
available. The aggregate square meters
equivalent of all apparel articles
imported into the United States is
derived from the set of Harmonized
System lines listed in the Annex to the
World Trade Organization Agreement
on Textiles and Clothing (‘‘ATC’’), and
the conversion factors for units of
measure into square meter equivalents
used by the United States in
implementing the ATC. For purposes of
this notice, the most recent 12-month
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period for which data are available as of
December 20, 2011 is the 12-month
period ending on October 31, 2011.
Therefore, for the one-year period
beginning on December 20, 2011 and
extending through December 19, 2012,
the quantity of imports eligible for
preferential treatment under the valueadded program is 326,752,739 square
meters equivalent. Apparel articles
entered in excess of these quantities will
be subject to otherwise applicable
tariffs.
Dated: December 12, 2011.
Kim Glas,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and
Apparel.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XO45
Marine Mammals; File No. 14241
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application for
permit amendment.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that Dr.
Peter Tyack, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole,
MA has applied for an amendment to
Permit No. 14241–02 to conduct
research on marine mammals.
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email
comments must be received on or before
January 17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: The application and related
documents are available for review by
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public
Comment’’ from the Features box on the
Applications and Permits for Protected
Species home page, https://
apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting
File No. 14241 from the list of available
applications.
These documents are also available
upon written request or by appointment
in the following office(s):
Permits, Conservation and Education
Division, Office of Protected Resources,
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room
13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone
(301) 427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376;
Northeast Region, NMFS, 55 Great
Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930;
phone (978) 281–9300; fax (978) 281–
9333; and
Southeast Region, NMFS, 263 13th
Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, Florida
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33701; phone (727) 824–5312; fax (727)
824–5309.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tammy Adams or Carrie Hubard, (301)
427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
subject amendment to Permit No.
14241–02 is requested under the
authority of the Marine Mammal
Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the regulations
governing the taking and importing of
marine mammals (50 CFR part 216.
Permit No. 14241, issued on July 15,
2009 (74 FR 3668), authorizes the
permit holder to conduct research on
cetacean behavior, sound production,
and responses to sound. The research
methods include tagging marine
mammals with an advanced digital
sound recording tag that records the
acoustic stimuli an animal hears and
measures vocalization, behavior, and
physiological parameters. Research also
involves conducting sound playbacks in
a carefully controlled manner and
measuring animals’ responses. The
principal study species are beaked
whales, especially Cuvier’s beaked
whale (Ziphius cavirostris), and large
delphinids such as long-finned pilot
whales (Globicephala melas), although
other small cetacean species may also be
studied. The locations for the field work
are the Mediterranean Sea, waters off of
the mid-Atlantic United States, and
Cape Cod Bay. The permit has been
amended twice since issuance.
Amendment number 1 (Permit No.
14241–01) issued on July 27, 2010 (75
FR 47779): (1) Included authorization
for collection of a skin and blubber
biopsy sample from animals that are
already authorized to be tagged; (2)
added new species for existing projects
involving tagging, playbacks, and
behavioral observations; and (3)
modified and clarified tagging and
playback protocols and mitigation for
when dependent calves are present.
Amendment number 2 (Permit No.
14241–02), a minor amendment, issued
on April 4, 2011, modified the sound
source protocols and added zinc oxide
marking for animals being tagged or
biopsied. The permit, as amended, is
valid through July 31, 2014.
The permit holder has a pending
amendment request (76 FR 75524) to: (1)
Add one new species, Atlantic spotted
dolphin (Stenella frontalis), for field
work in waters off Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia;
(2) add a new project to Dtag the
following species in waters off the west
coast of North America: Baird’s beaked
whale (Berardius bairdii), Cuvier’s
beaked whale, Risso’s dolphin
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(Grampus griseus), killer whale (Orcinus
orca) and Mesoplodont beaked whales
(Mesoplodon spp); (3) add a new
procedure for marking cetaceans with
zinc oxide; (4) add satellite tagging to
long-finned pilot whales in approaches
to the Mediterranean; and (5) switch
some of the playback takes initially
located in the Mediterranean and
eastern North Atlantic to the same
stocks of long-finned and short-finned
(G. macrorhynchus) pilot whales off
Cape Hatteras, an area where research is
already authorized. The amendment
would not change the expiration date of
the permit.
The permit holder is requesting that
the pending amendment also include:
(1) adding waters off Florida to the
project for tagging to study risks of
entanglement is mid-Atlantic states,
with no changes in the numbers,
species, or stocks of marine mammals
taken; and (2) increasing the number of
Baird’s beaked whales that may be zincmarked off the west coast of North
America from 40 to 80 per year (as part
of item number 2 above).
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial
determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
Concurrent with the publication of
this notice in the Federal Register,
NMFS is forwarding copies of this
application to the Marine Mammal
Commission and its Committee of
Scientific Advisors.
Dated: December 13, 2011.
P. Michael Payne,
Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education
Division, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–32288 Filed 12–15–11; 8:45 am]
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XA866
Endangered and Threatened Species;
Take of Anadromous Fish
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Application for a research
permit renewal.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
NMFS has received a scientific research
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled in
Haiti Under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership for
Encouragement Act (HOPE)
AGENCY: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
ACTION: Notification of Annual Quantitative Limit on Certain Apparel
under HOPE.
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DATES: Effective Date: December 20, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maria Dybczak, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of
Commerce, (202) 482-3651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: The Caribbean Basin Recovery Act (``CBERA''), as amended
by the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership for
Encouragement Act of 2006 (``HOPE''), Title V of the Tax Relief and
Health Care Act of 2006 and the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of
2008 (``HOPE II''); the Haiti Economic Lift Program Act of 2010
(``HELP''); and implemented by Presidential Proclamations No. 8114, 72
FR 13655, 13659 (March 22, 2007), and No. 8596, 75 FR 68153 (November
4, 2010).
HOPE provides for duty-free treatment for certain apparel articles
imported directly from Haiti. Section 213A(b)(1)(B) of HOPE outlines
the requirements for certain apparel articles to qualify for duty-free
treatment under a ``value-added'' program. In order to qualify for
duty-free treatment, apparel articles must be wholly assembled, or
knit-to-shape, in Haiti from any combination of fabrics, fabric
components, components knit-to-shape, and yarns, as long as the sum of
the cost or value of materials produced in Haiti or one or more
countries, as described in HOPE, or any combination thereof, plus the
direct costs of processing operations performed in Haiti or one or more
countries, as described in HOPE, or any combination thereof, is not
less than an applicable percentage of the declared customs value of
such apparel articles. Pursuant to HELP, the applicable percentage for
the period December 20, 2011 through December 19, 2012, is 50 percent
or more.
For every twelve month period following the effective date of HOPE,
duty-free treatment under the value-added program is subject to a
quantitative limitation. HOPE provides that the quantitative limitation
will be recalculated for each subsequent 12-month period. Section
213A(b)(1)(C) of HOPE, as amended by HOPE II and HELP, requires that,
for the twelve-month period beginning on December 20, 2011, the
quantitative limitation for qualifying apparel imported from Haiti
under the value-added program will be an amount equivalent to 1.25
percent of the aggregate square meter equivalent of all apparel
articles imported into the United States in the most recent 12-month
period for which data are available. The aggregate square meters
equivalent of all apparel articles imported into the United States is
derived from the set of Harmonized System lines listed in the Annex to
the World Trade Organization Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
(``ATC''), and the conversion factors for units of measure into square
meter equivalents used by the United States in implementing the ATC.
For purposes of this notice, the most recent 12-month
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period for which data are available as of December 20, 2011 is the 12-
month period ending on October 31, 2011.
Therefore, for the one-year period beginning on December 20, 2011
and extending through December 19, 2012, the quantity of imports
eligible for preferential treatment under the value-added program is
326,752,739 square meters equivalent. Apparel articles entered in
excess of these quantities will be subject to otherwise applicable
tariffs.
Dated: December 12, 2011.
Kim Glas,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and Apparel.
[FR Doc. 2011-32278 Filed 12-15-11; 8:45 am]
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