Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests Under the Commercial Availability Provision of the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (US-PERU TPA), 6068-6069 [2013-01732]
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Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis
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Washington, DC 20230; and to the
Office of Management and Budget,
Paperwork Reduction Project 0608–
0012, Washington, DC 20503.
J. Steven Landefeld,
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[FR Doc. 2013–01845 Filed 1–28–13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–06–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Interim Procedures
for Considering Requests Under the
Commercial Availability Provision of
the United States—Peru Trade
Promotion Agreement (US–PERU TPA)
International Trade
Administration, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
On behalf of 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 April 1, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Laurie Mease, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, Telephone: 202–
482–3400, Fax: 202–482–0858, Email:
Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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I. Abstract
The United States and Peru negotiated
the US-Peru Trade Promotion
Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’), which
entered into force on February 1, 2009.
Subject to the rules of origin in Annex
4.1 of the Agreement, pursuant to the
textile provisions of the Agreement,
fabric, yarn, and fiber produced in Peru
or the United States and traded between
the two countries are entitled to dutyfree tariff treatment. Annex 3–B of the
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Agreement also lists specific fabrics,
yarns, and fibers that the two countries
agreed are not available in commercial
quantities in a timely manner from
producers in Peru or the United States.
The fabrics listed are commercially
unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers,
which are also entitled to duty-free
treatment despite not being produced in
Peru or the United States.
The list of commercially unavailable
fabrics, yarns, and fibers may be
changed pursuant to the commercial
availability provision in Chapter 3,
Article 3.3, Paragraphs 5–7 of the
Agreement. Under this provision,
interested entities from Peru or the
United States have the right to request
that a specific fabric, yarn, or fiber be
added to, or removed from, the list of
commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns,
and fibers in Annex 3–B.
Chapter 3, Article 3.3, paragraph 7 of
the Agreement requires that the
President ‘‘promptly publish’’
procedures for parties to exercise the
right to make these requests. The
President delegated the responsibility
for publishing the procedures and
administering commercial availability
requests to the Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(CITA), which issues procedures and
acts on requests through the U.S.
Department of Commerce, Office of
Textiles and Apparel (‘‘OTEXA’’) (See
Proclamation No. 8341, 74 FR 4105).
Interim procedures to implement these
responsibilities were published in the
Federal Register on August 14, 2009.
See Interim Procedures for Considering
Requests Under the Commercial
Availability Provision of the United
States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
Implementation Act and Estimate of
Burden for Collection of Information,
(74 FR 41111).
The intent of the U.S.-Peru TPA
Commercial Availability Procedures is
to foster the use of U.S. and regional
products by implementing procedures
that allow products to be placed on or
removed from a product list, on a timely
basis, and in a manner that is consistent
with normal business practice. The
procedures are intended to facilitate the
transmission of requests; allow the
market to indicate the availability of the
supply of products that are the subject
of requests; make available promptly, to
interested entities and the public,
information regarding the requests for
products and offers received for those
products; ensure wide participation by
interested entities and parties; allow for
careful review and consideration of
information provided to substantiate
requests and responses; and provide
timely public dissemination of
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information used by CITA in making
commercial availability determinations.
CITA must collect certain information
about fabric, yarn, or fiber technical
specifications and the production
capabilities of Peruvian and U.S. textile
producers to determine whether certain
fabrics, yarns, or fibers are available in
commercial quantities in a timely
manner in the United States or Peru,
subject to Section 203(o) of the US–
PERU TPA.
II. Method of Collection
Participants in a commercial
availability proceeding must submit
public versions of their Requests,
Responses or Rebuttals electronically
(via email) for posting on OTEXA’s Web
site. Confidential versions of those
submissions which contain business
confidential information must be
delivered in hard copy to OTEXA.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625–0265.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
collection).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 16
(10 for Requests; 3 for Responses; 3 for
Rebuttals).
Estimated Time per Response: 8 hours
per Request, 2 hours per Response, and
1 hour per Rebuttal.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 89.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $5,340
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
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Dated: January 23, 2013.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
exterior ply of paper that is suitable for
high quality print graphics.2 Effective
July 1, 2007, laminated woven sacks are
classifiable under Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States
(‘‘HTSUS’’) subheadings 6305.33.0050
and 6305.33.0080. Laminated woven
sacks were previously classifiable under
HTSUS subheading 6305.33.0020.3 The
HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes
only; the written product description of
the scope of the order is dispositive.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–916]
Laminated Woven Sacks From the
People’s Republic of China:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2011–
2012
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on laminated
woven sacks (‘‘sacks’’) from the People’s
Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). The period
of review (‘‘POR’’) is August 1, 2011,
through July 31, 2012. The review
covers one exporter of subject
merchandise, Zibo Aifudi Plastic
Packaging Co., Ltd. (‘‘Aifudi’’). We have
preliminarily determined that Aifudi
failed to demonstrate its eligibility for a
separate rate. Accordingly, we are
treating the company as part of the PRCwide entity and subject to the PRC-wide
rate.
DATES: Effective Date: January 29, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Irene Gorelik, AD/CVD Operations,
Office 9, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–6905.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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AGENCY:
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the
order 1 is laminated woven sacks.
Laminated woven sacks are bags or
sacks consisting of one or more plies of
fabric consisting of woven
polypropylene strip and/or woven
polyethylene strip, regardless of the
width of the strip; with or without an
extrusion coating of polypropylene and/
or polyethylene on one or both sides of
the fabric; laminated by any method
either to an exterior ply of plastic film
such as biaxially-oriented
polypropylene (‘‘BOPP’’) or to an
1 See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order:
Laminated Woven Sacks From the People’s
Republic of China, 73 FR 45941 (August 7, 2008)
(‘‘Order’’)
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Methodology
The Department has conducted this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘the Act’’). Because the sole
mandatory respondent, Aifudi, was
unresponsive to the Department’s
request for information, failed to
provide the requested information by
the deadline, and thus failed to establish
its eligibility for a separate rate, Aifudi
is being treated as part of the PRC-wide
entity. As a result, the PRC-wide entity
is now under review. In making our
preliminary determination with respect
to the PRC-wide entity, we have relied
on facts available and, because an
element of the PRC-wide entity, Aifudi,
failed to act to the best of its ability in
complying with the Department’s
request for information, we have drawn
an adverse inference in selecting from
among the facts otherwise available.4
For a full description of the
methodology underlying our
conclusions, please see the Preliminary
Decision Memo, dated concurrently
with these results and hereby adopted
by this notice. The Preliminary Decision
Memo is a public document and is on
file electronically via Import
Administration’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (‘‘IA
ACCESS’’). IA ACCESS is available to
registered users at https://iaaccess.trade.
gov and in the Central Records Unit,
room 7046 of the main Department of
Commerce building. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memo can be accessed directly
on the Internet at https://www.trade.gov/
ia/. The signed Preliminary Decision
2 See ‘‘Decision Memorandum for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review: Laminated Woven Sacks from the People’s
Republic of China,’’ from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration,
(‘‘Preliminary Decision Memo’’), dated concurrently
with these results for a complete description of the
Scope of the Order.
3 Additional HTSUS considerations apply. See
Preliminary Decision Memo.
4 See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act.
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Memo and the electronic version of the
Preliminary Decision Memo are
identical in content.
Preliminary Results of Review
The Department preliminarily
determines that the following dumping
margin exists for the period August 1,
2011, through July 31, 2012:
Exporter
Margin
(percent)
PRC-Wide Entity (including
Zibo Aifudi Plastic Packaging
Co., Ltd.) ...............................
91.73
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case
briefs not later than 30 days after the
date of publication of this notice.5
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised
in the case briefs, may be filed not later
than five days after the date for filing
case briefs.6 Parties who submit case
briefs or rebuttal briefs in this
proceeding are encouraged to submit
with each argument: (1) A statement of
the issue; (2) a brief summary of the
argument; and (3) a table of authorities.7
Case and rebuttal briefs should be filed
using IA ACCESS.8
Interested parties who wish to request
a hearing, or to participate if one is
requested, must submit a written
request to the Assistant Secretary for
Import Administration, filed
electronically via IA ACCESS.9 An
electronically filed document must be
received successfully in its entirety by
the Department’s electronic records
system, IA ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time within 30 days after the
date of publication of this notice.10
Requests should contain: (1) The party’s
name, address and telephone number;
(2) the number of participants; and (3)
a list of issues to be discussed. Issues
raised in the hearing will be limited to
those raised in the respective case
briefs. Unless extended, the Department
will issue the final results of this
administrative review, including the
results of its analysis of issues raised in
any written briefs, not later than 120
days after the date of publication of this
notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A)
of the Act.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, the
Department will determine, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’)
5 See
19 CFR 351.309(c).
19 CFR 351.309(d).
7 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
8 See 19 CFR 351.303.
9 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
10 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
6 See
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim
Procedures for Considering Requests Under the Commercial Availability
Provision of the United States--Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (US-PERU
TPA)
AGENCY: International Trade Administration, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On behalf of 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 April 1, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet
at JJessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to Laurie Mease, Office of Textiles and Apparel, Telephone:
202-482-3400, Fax: 202-482-0858, Email: Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The United States and Peru negotiated the US-Peru Trade Promotion
Agreement (the ``Agreement''), which entered into force on February 1,
2009. Subject to the rules of origin in Annex 4.1 of the Agreement,
pursuant to the textile provisions of the Agreement, fabric, yarn, and
fiber produced in Peru or the United States and traded between the two
countries are entitled to duty-free tariff treatment. Annex 3-B of the
Agreement also lists specific fabrics, yarns, and fibers that the two
countries agreed are not available in commercial quantities in a timely
manner from producers in Peru or the United States. The fabrics listed
are commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers, which are also
entitled to duty-free treatment despite not being produced in Peru or
the United States.
The list of commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers may
be changed pursuant to the commercial availability provision in Chapter
3, Article 3.3, Paragraphs 5-7 of the Agreement. Under this provision,
interested entities from Peru or the United States have the right to
request that a specific fabric, yarn, or fiber be added to, or removed
from, the list of commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers
in Annex 3-B.
Chapter 3, Article 3.3, paragraph 7 of the Agreement requires that
the President ``promptly publish'' procedures for parties to exercise
the right to make these requests. The President delegated the
responsibility for publishing the procedures and administering
commercial availability requests to the Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA), which issues procedures
and acts on requests through the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of
Textiles and Apparel (``OTEXA'') (See Proclamation No. 8341, 74 FR
4105). Interim procedures to implement these responsibilities were
published in the Federal Register on August 14, 2009. See Interim
Procedures for Considering Requests Under the Commercial Availability
Provision of the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
Implementation Act and Estimate of Burden for Collection of
Information, (74 FR 41111).
The intent of the U.S.-Peru TPA Commercial Availability Procedures
is to foster the use of U.S. and regional products by implementing
procedures that allow products to be placed on or removed from a
product list, on a timely basis, and in a manner that is consistent
with normal business practice. The procedures are intended to
facilitate the transmission of requests; allow the market to indicate
the availability of the supply of products that are the subject of
requests; make available promptly, to interested entities and the
public, information regarding the requests for products and offers
received for those products; ensure wide participation by interested
entities and parties; allow for careful review and consideration of
information provided to substantiate requests and responses; and
provide timely public dissemination of information used by CITA in
making commercial availability determinations.
CITA must collect certain information about fabric, yarn, or fiber
technical specifications and the production capabilities of Peruvian
and U.S. textile producers to determine whether certain fabrics, yarns,
or fibers are available in commercial quantities in a timely manner in
the United States or Peru, subject to Section 203(o) of the US-PERU
TPA.
II. Method of Collection
Participants in a commercial availability proceeding must submit
public versions of their Requests, Responses or Rebuttals
electronically (via email) for posting on OTEXA's Web site.
Confidential versions of those submissions which contain business
confidential information must be delivered in hard copy to OTEXA.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625-0265.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a currently
approved collection).
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 16 (10 for Requests; 3 for
Responses; 3 for Rebuttals).
Estimated Time per Response: 8 hours per Request, 2 hours per
Response, and 1 hour per Rebuttal.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 89.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $5,340
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
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Dated: January 23, 2013.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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