Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice of Status of Certain Pending Country Practice Petitions; Notice of Schedule for Public Comments and a Hearing on Certain Country Practice Reviews, 12412-12413 [2013-04039]
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SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN
COMMISSION
Commission Meeting
notice for such hearing, which was
published in 78 FR 5556, January 25,
2013.
Authority: Pub. L. 91–575, 84 Stat. 1509 et
seq., 18 CFR Parts 806, 807, and 808.
Susquehanna River Basin
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Susquehanna River Basin
Commission will hold its regular
business meeting on March 21, 2013, in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Details
concerning the matters to be addressed
at the business meeting are contained in
the Supplementary Information section
of this notice.
DATES: March 21, 2013, at 8:30 a.m.
ADDRESSES: North Office Building,
Hearing Room 1 (Ground Level), North
Street (at Commonwealth Avenue),
Harrisburg, PA 17120.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard A. Cairo, General Counsel,
telephone: (717) 238–0423, ext. 306; fax:
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Interested parties are invited to attend
the business meeting and encouraged to
review the Commission’s Public
Meeting Rules of Conduct, which are
posted on the Commission’s web site,
www.srbc.net. As identified in the
public hearing notice referenced below,
written comments on the Regulatory
Program projects that were the subject of
the public hearing, and are listed for
action at the business meeting, are
subject to a comment deadline of
February 25, 2013. Written comments
pertaining to any other matters listed for
action at the business meeting may be
mailed to the Susquehanna River Basin
Commission, 1721 North Front Street,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17102–2391,
or submitted electronically through
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publicparticipation.htm. Any such
comments mailed or electronically
submitted must be received by the
Commission on or before March 15,
2013, to be considered.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
business meeting will include actions or
presentations on the following items: (1)
Presentation on the Commission’s
Harrisburg flood inundation mapping
project; (2) the Maurice Goddard Award;
(3) revision of FY–2014 budget; (4)
investment policy statement; (5)
ratification/approval of contracts and
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that were the subject of a public hearing
conducted by the Commission on
February 14, 2013, and identified in the
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Thomas W. Beauduy,
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP): Notice of Status of Certain
Pending Country Practice Petitions;
Notice of Schedule for Public
Comments and a Hearing on Certain
Country Practice Reviews
Office of the United States
Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice and request for
submissions.
AGENCY:
This notice announces (1) the
status of pending country practice
petitions submitted as part of previous
GSP Annual Reviews, and (2) the
schedule for public comments and a
public hearing on the ongoing GSP
country practice reviews regarding
worker rights and/or child labor in
Bangladesh, Georgia, Niger, the
Philippines, and Uzbekistan, and
protection of intellectual property rights
(IPR) in Russia and Uzbekistan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tameka Cooper, GSP Program, Office of
the United States Trade Representative,
600 17th Street NW., Room 422,
Washington, DC 20508. The telephone
number is (202) 395–6971, the fax
number is (202) 395–9674, and the
email address is
Tameka_Cooper@ustr.eop.gov.
SUMMARY:
The GSP regulations (15 CFR
Part 2007) provide the schedule of dates
for conducting an annual review unless
otherwise specified in a Federal
Register notice. The schedule for the
review of the country practice petitions
cited above follows.
March 14, 2013: Deadline for
submission of pre-hearing briefs and
requests to appear at the March 28, 2013
public hearing; submissions must be
received by 5:00 p.m.
March 28, 2013: The GSP
Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff
Committee (TPSC) will convene a
public hearing on the country practice
petitions cited above at 1724 F Street
NW., Washington, DC 20508, beginning
at 9:30 a.m.
DATES:
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April 18, 2013: Deadline for
submission of post-hearing briefs, which
must be received by 5:00 p.m.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GSP
program provides for the duty-free
treatment of designated articles when
imported from beneficiary developing
countries. The GSP program is
authorized by Title V of the Trade Act
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461, et seq.), as
amended.
Country Practice Petitions
The status of country practice
petitions considered in the 2012 GSP
Annual Review is described in the list
of Active and Pending Country Practices
Reviews, which is available on the
USTR GSP Web site at https://
www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/tradedevelopment/preference-programs/
generalized-system-preference-gsp/gspprogram-inf. This list includes petitions
accepted as part of annual reviews from
previous years.
The U.S. Trade Representative
(USTR), drawing on the advice of the
TPSC, has deferred a decision on
acceptance of a country practice petition
on Russia regarding expropriation. In
addition, the USTR, drawing on the
advice of the TPSC, has decided to close
the country practice review of case 007–
CP–08 regarding IPR protection in
Lebanon in view of (1) progress made by
the government of Lebanon in
addressing IPR issues in that country
and (2) a request by the petitioner, the
International Intellectual Property
Alliance, that the petition be withdrawn
in view of progress in addressing the
issues cited in the petition.
Notice of Public Hearing
A hearing will be held by the GSP
Subcommittee of the TPSC on
Thursday, March 28, 2013, beginning at
9:30 a.m., to receive information
regarding recent developments pertinent
to the ongoing country practice reviews
regarding worker rights and/or child
labor in Bangladesh, Georgia, Niger, the
Philippines, and Uzbekistan, and
protection of intellectual property rights
(IPR) in Russia and Uzbekistan.
The hearing will be held at 1724 F
Street NW., Washington, DC 20508 and
will be open to the public. A transcript
of the hearing will be made available on
https://www.regulations.gov within
approximately two weeks of the hearing.
All interested parties wishing to make
an oral presentation at the hearing must
submit, following the ‘‘Requirements for
Submissions’’ set out below, the name,
address, telephone number, and email
address, if available, of the witness(es)
representing their organization by 5
p.m., March 14, 2013. Requests to
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present oral testimony must be
accompanied by a written brief or
summary statement, in English, and also
must be received by 5 p.m., March 14,
2013. Oral testimony before the GSP
Subcommittee will be limited to fiveminute presentations that summarize or
supplement information contained in
briefs or statements submitted for the
record. Post-hearing briefs or statements
will be accepted if they conform with
the regulations cited below and are
submitted, in English, by 5 p.m., April
18, 2013. Parties not wishing to appear
at the public hearing may submit prehearing and post-hearing briefs or
comments by the aforementioned
deadlines.
The GSP Subcommittee strongly
encourages submission of all posthearing briefs or statements by the April
18, 2013 deadline in order to receive
timely consideration in the GSP
Subcommittee’s review of the subject
petitions. However, if there are new
developments or information that
parties wish to share with the GSP
Subcommittee after this date, the
regulations.gov dockets will remain
open. Comments, letters, or other
submissions related to the subject
country practice reviews must be posted
to the https://regulations.gov docket in
order to be considered by the GSP
Subcommittee.
Requirements for Submissions
All submissions in response to this
notice must be submitted in English by
the applicable deadlines set forth in this
notice and conform to the GSP
regulations set forth at 15 CFR part
2007, except as modified below. These
regulations are available on the USTR
Web site at https://www.ustr.gov/tradetopics/trade-development/preferenceprograms/generalized-systempreference-gsp/gsp-program-inf.
To ensure their timely and
expeditious receipt and consideration,
submissions in response to this notice
must be submitted electronically via
https://www.regulations.gov using the
appropriate country-specific docket
number(s) listed below.
Bangladesh (worker rights): USTR–
2012–0036;
Georgia (worker rights): USTR–2013–
0009;
Niger (worker rights): USTR–2013–
0005;
Philippines (worker rights): USTR–
2013–0006;
Uzbekistan (worker rights): USTR–
2013–0007;
Russia (IPR): USTR–2013–0008; and
Uzbekistan (IPR): USTR–2013–0014.
Hand-delivered submissions will not be
accepted.
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To make a submission using https://
www.regulations.gov, enter the countryspecific docket number in the ‘‘Search
for’’ field on the home page and click
‘‘Search.’’ The site will provide a
search-results page listing all documents
associated with this docket. Find a
reference to this notice by selecting
‘‘Notice’’ under ‘‘Document Type’’ in
the ‘‘Filter Results by’’ section on the
left side of the screen and click on the
link entitled ‘‘Comment Now.’’ The
https://www.regulations.gov Web site
offers the option of providing comments
by filling in a ‘‘Type Comment’’ field or
by attaching a document using the
‘‘Upload file(s)’’ field. The GSP
Subcommittee prefers that submissions
be provided in an attached document.
At the beginning of the submission, or
on the first page (if an attachment),
please note that the submission is in
response to this Federal Register notice
and provides comments on the GSP
country practice review regarding
[relevant country]. Submissions should
not exceed 30 single-spaced, standard
letter-size pages in 12-point type,
including attachments. Any data
attachments to the submission should
be included in the same file as the
submission itself, and not as separate
files.
Each submitter will receive a
submission tracking number upon
completion of the submissions
procedure at https://
www.regulations.gov. The tracking
number will be the submitter’s
confirmation that the submission was
received into https://
www.regulations.gov. The confirmation
should be kept for the submitter’s
records. USTR is not able to provide
technical assistance for the Web site.
Documents not submitted in accordance
with these instructions may not be
considered in this review. If an
interested party is unable to provide
submissions as requested, please contact
the GSP Program at USTR to arrange for
an alternative method of transmission.
Business Confidential Submissions
An interested party requesting that
information contained in a submission
be treated as business confidential
information must certify that such
information is business confidential and
would not customarily be released to
the public by the submitter.
Confidential business information must
be clearly designated as such. The
submission must be marked ‘‘BUSINESS
CONFIDENTIAL’’ at the top and bottom
of the cover page and each succeeding
page, and the submission should
indicate, via brackets, the specific
information that is confidential.
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Additionally, ‘‘Business Confidential’’
must be included in the ‘‘Type
Comment’’ field. For any submission
containing business confidential
information, a non-confidential version
must be submitted separately (i.e., not as
part of the same submission with the
confidential version), indicating where
confidential information has been
redacted. The non-confidential version
will be placed in the docket and open
to public inspection.
Public Viewing of Review Submissions
Submissions in response to this
notice, except for information granted
‘‘business confidential’’ status under 15
CFR 2003.6, will be available for public
viewing pursuant to 15 CFR 2007.6 at
https://www.regulations.gov upon
completion of processing, usually
within two weeks of the relevant due
date or date of the submission. Such
submissions may be viewed by entering
the country-specific docket number in
the search field at: https://
www.regulations.gov.
William D. Jackson,
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
for the Generalized System of Preferences,
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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Notice of Meeting of the Industry Trade
Advisory Committee on Small and
Minority Business (ITAC–11)
Office of the United States
Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice of a Partially Opened
Meeting.
AGENCY:
The Industry Trade Advisory
Committee on Small and Minority
Business (ITAC–11) will hold a meeting
on Monday, March 4, 2013. The meeting
will be opened to the public from 2:00
p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
DATES: The meeting is scheduled for
March 4, 2012 unless otherwise
notified.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Ronald Reagan International Trade
Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Suite M800, Training Room A,
Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Hellstern, DFO for ITAC–11 at
(202) 482–3222, Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Agenda topics to be discussed are:
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice of Status of
Certain Pending Country Practice Petitions; Notice of Schedule for
Public Comments and a Hearing on Certain Country Practice Reviews
AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice and request for submissions.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces (1) the status of pending country
practice petitions submitted as part of previous GSP Annual Reviews,
and (2) the schedule for public comments and a public hearing on the
ongoing GSP country practice reviews regarding worker rights and/or
child labor in Bangladesh, Georgia, Niger, the Philippines, and
Uzbekistan, and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in
Russia and Uzbekistan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tameka Cooper, GSP Program, Office of
the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street NW., Room 422,
Washington, DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-6971, the fax
number is (202) 395-9674, and the email address is Tameka_Cooper@ustr.eop.gov.
DATES: The GSP regulations (15 CFR Part 2007) provide the schedule of
dates for conducting an annual review unless otherwise specified in a
Federal Register notice. The schedule for the review of the country
practice petitions cited above follows.
March 14, 2013: Deadline for submission of pre-hearing briefs and
requests to appear at the March 28, 2013 public hearing; submissions
must be received by 5:00 p.m.
March 28, 2013: The GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff
Committee (TPSC) will convene a public hearing on the country practice
petitions cited above at 1724 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20508,
beginning at 9:30 a.m.
April 18, 2013: Deadline for submission of post-hearing briefs,
which must be received by 5:00 p.m.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GSP program provides for the duty-free
treatment of designated articles when imported from beneficiary
developing countries. The GSP program is authorized by Title V of the
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461, et seq.), as amended.
Country Practice Petitions
The status of country practice petitions considered in the 2012 GSP
Annual Review is described in the list of Active and Pending Country
Practices Reviews, which is available on the USTR GSP Web site at
https://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/trade-development/preference-programs/generalized-system-preference-gsp/gsp-program-inf. This list includes
petitions accepted as part of annual reviews from previous years.
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), drawing on the advice of the
TPSC, has deferred a decision on acceptance of a country practice
petition on Russia regarding expropriation. In addition, the USTR,
drawing on the advice of the TPSC, has decided to close the country
practice review of case 007-CP-08 regarding IPR protection in Lebanon
in view of (1) progress made by the government of Lebanon in addressing
IPR issues in that country and (2) a request by the petitioner, the
International Intellectual Property Alliance, that the petition be
withdrawn in view of progress in addressing the issues cited in the
petition.
Notice of Public Hearing
A hearing will be held by the GSP Subcommittee of the TPSC on
Thursday, March 28, 2013, beginning at 9:30 a.m., to receive
information regarding recent developments pertinent to the ongoing
country practice reviews regarding worker rights and/or child labor in
Bangladesh, Georgia, Niger, the Philippines, and Uzbekistan, and
protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in Russia and
Uzbekistan.
The hearing will be held at 1724 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20508
and will be open to the public. A transcript of the hearing will be
made available on https://www.regulations.gov within approximately two
weeks of the hearing.
All interested parties wishing to make an oral presentation at the
hearing must submit, following the ``Requirements for Submissions'' set
out below, the name, address, telephone number, and email address, if
available, of the witness(es) representing their organization by 5
p.m., March 14, 2013. Requests to
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present oral testimony must be accompanied by a written brief or
summary statement, in English, and also must be received by 5 p.m.,
March 14, 2013. Oral testimony before the GSP Subcommittee will be
limited to five-minute presentations that summarize or supplement
information contained in briefs or statements submitted for the record.
Post-hearing briefs or statements will be accepted if they conform with
the regulations cited below and are submitted, in English, by 5 p.m.,
April 18, 2013. Parties not wishing to appear at the public hearing may
submit pre-hearing and post-hearing briefs or comments by the
aforementioned deadlines.
The GSP Subcommittee strongly encourages submission of all post-
hearing briefs or statements by the April 18, 2013 deadline in order to
receive timely consideration in the GSP Subcommittee's review of the
subject petitions. However, if there are new developments or
information that parties wish to share with the GSP Subcommittee after
this date, the regulations.gov dockets will remain open. Comments,
letters, or other submissions related to the subject country practice
reviews must be posted to the https://regulations.gov docket in order to
be considered by the GSP Subcommittee.
Requirements for Submissions
All submissions in response to this notice must be submitted in
English by the applicable deadlines set forth in this notice and
conform to the GSP regulations set forth at 15 CFR part 2007, except as
modified below. These regulations are available on the USTR Web site at
https://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/trade-development/preference-programs/generalized-system-preference-gsp/gsp-program-inf.
To ensure their timely and expeditious receipt and consideration,
submissions in response to this notice must be submitted electronically
via https://www.regulations.gov using the appropriate country-specific
docket number(s) listed below.
Bangladesh (worker rights): USTR-2012-0036;
Georgia (worker rights): USTR-2013-0009;
Niger (worker rights): USTR-2013-0005;
Philippines (worker rights): USTR-2013-0006;
Uzbekistan (worker rights): USTR-2013-0007;
Russia (IPR): USTR-2013-0008; and
Uzbekistan (IPR): USTR-2013-0014.
Hand-delivered submissions will not be accepted.
To make a submission using https://www.regulations.gov, enter the
country-specific docket number in the ``Search for'' field on the home
page and click ``Search.'' The site will provide a search-results page
listing all documents associated with this docket. Find a reference to
this notice by selecting ``Notice'' under ``Document Type'' in the
``Filter Results by'' section on the left side of the screen and click
on the link entitled ``Comment Now.'' The https://www.regulations.gov
Web site offers the option of providing comments by filling in a ``Type
Comment'' field or by attaching a document using the ``Upload file(s)''
field. The GSP Subcommittee prefers that submissions be provided in an
attached document. At the beginning of the submission, or on the first
page (if an attachment), please note that the submission is in response
to this Federal Register notice and provides comments on the GSP
country practice review regarding [relevant country]. Submissions
should not exceed 30 single-spaced, standard letter-size pages in 12-
point type, including attachments. Any data attachments to the
submission should be included in the same file as the submission
itself, and not as separate files.
Each submitter will receive a submission tracking number upon
completion of the submissions procedure at https://www.regulations.gov.
The tracking number will be the submitter's confirmation that the
submission was received into https://www.regulations.gov. The
confirmation should be kept for the submitter's records. USTR is not
able to provide technical assistance for the Web site. Documents not
submitted in accordance with these instructions may not be considered
in this review. If an interested party is unable to provide submissions
as requested, please contact the GSP Program at USTR to arrange for an
alternative method of transmission.
Business Confidential Submissions
An interested party requesting that information contained in a
submission be treated as business confidential information must certify
that such information is business confidential and would not
customarily be released to the public by the submitter. Confidential
business information must be clearly designated as such. The submission
must be marked ``BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL'' at the top and bottom of the
cover page and each succeeding page, and the submission should
indicate, via brackets, the specific information that is confidential.
Additionally, ``Business Confidential'' must be included in the ``Type
Comment'' field. For any submission containing business confidential
information, a non-confidential version must be submitted separately
(i.e., not as part of the same submission with the confidential
version), indicating where confidential information has been redacted.
The non-confidential version will be placed in the docket and open to
public inspection.
Public Viewing of Review Submissions
Submissions in response to this notice, except for information
granted ``business confidential'' status under 15 CFR 2003.6, will be
available for public viewing pursuant to 15 CFR 2007.6 at https://www.regulations.gov upon completion of processing, usually within two
weeks of the relevant due date or date of the submission. Such
submissions may be viewed by entering the country-specific docket
number in the search field at: https://www.regulations.gov.
William D. Jackson,
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Generalized System
of Preferences, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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