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before the expiration date. A renewal
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Airways and/or Zarand Aviation as
provided in Section 766.24(d), by filing
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Dated: July 31, 2013.
David W. Mills,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export
Enforcement.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Procedures for
Considering Requests and Comments
From the Public Under the Textile
Safeguard Provision of the United
States–Peru Free Trade Agreement
International Trade
Administration (ITA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 October 7, 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, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Telephone: 202–482–
3400, Fax: 202–482–0858, Email:
Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
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SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321
through Section 328 of the United
States-Peru Free Trade Agreement
Implementation Act (the ‘‘Act’’)
implements the textile and apparel
safeguard provisions, provided for in
Article 3.1 of the United States-Peru
Free Trade Agreement (the
‘‘Agreement’’). This safeguard
mechanism applies when, as a result of
the elimination of a customs duty under
the Agreement, a Peruvian textile or
apparel article 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 or actual threat thereof
to a U.S. industry producing a like or
directly competitive article. In these
circumstances, Article 3.1 permits the
United States to increase duties on the
imported article from Peru to a level
that does not exceed the lesser of the
prevailing U.S. normal trade relations
(NTR)/most-favored-nation (MFN) duty
rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN
duty rate in effect on the day before the
Agreement entered into force.
The Statement of Administrative
Action accompanying the Act provides
that the Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(CITA) will issue procedures for
requesting such safeguard measures, for
making its determinations under
Section 322(a) of the Act, and for
providing relief under section 322(b) of
the Act.
In Proclamation No. 8341 (74 FR
4105, January 22, 2009), the President
delegated to CITA his authority under
Subtitle B of Title III of the Act with
respect to textile and apparel safeguard
measures.
CITA must collect information in
order to determine whether a domestic
textile or apparel industry is being
adversely impacted by imports of these
products from Peru, thereby allowing
CITA to take corrective action to protect
the viability of the domestic textile
industry, subject to section 322(b) of the
Act.
Pursuant to Section 321(a) of the Act
and Section 9 of Presidential
Proclamation 8341, an interested party
in the U.S. domestic textile and apparel
industry may file a request for a textile
and apparel safeguard action with CITA.
Consistent with longstanding CITA
practice in considering textile safeguard
actions, CITA will consider an
interested party to be an entity (which
may be a trade association, firm,
certified or recognized union, or group
of workers) that is representative of
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either: (A) a domestic producer or
producers of an article that is like or
directly competitive with the subject
Peruvian textile or apparel article; or (B)
a domestic producer or producers of a
component used in the production of an
article that is like or directly
competitive with the subject Peruvian
textile or apparel article.
In order for a request to be
considered, the requestor must provide
the following information in support of
a claim that a textile or apparel article
from Peru 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 or actual threat thereof,
to a U.S. industry producing an article
that is like, or directly competitive with,
the imported article: (1) name and
description of the imported article
concerned; (2) import data
demonstrating that imports of a
Peruvian origin textile or apparel article
that are like or directly competitive with
the articles produced by the domestic
industry concerned are increasing in
absolute terms or relative to the
domestic market for that article; (3) U.S.
domestic production of the like or
directly competitive articles of U.S.
origin indicating the nature and extent
of the serious damage or actual threat
thereof, along with an affirmation that to
the best of the requestor’s knowledge,
the data represent substantially all of
the domestic production of the like or
directly competitive article(s) of U.S.
origin; (4) imports from Peru as a
percentage of the domestic market of the
like or directly competitive article(s);
and (5) all data available to the
requestor showing changes in
productivity, utilization of capacity,
inventories, exports, wages,
employment, domestic prices, profits,
and investment, and any other
information, relating to the existence of
serious damage or actual threat thereof
caused by imports from Peru to the
industry producing the like or directly
competitive article that is the subject of
the request. To the extent that such
information is not available, the
requestor should provide best estimates
and the basis therefore.
If CITA determines that the request
provides the information necessary for it
to be considered, CITA will publish a
notice in the Federal Register seeking
public comments regarding the request.
The comment period shall be 30
calendar days. The notice will include
a summary of the request. Any
interested party may submit information
to rebut, clarify, or correct public
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comments submitted by any interested
party.
CITA will make a determination on
any request it considers within 60
calendar days of the close of the
comment period. If CITA is unable to
make a determination within 60
calendar days, it will publish a notice in
the Federal Register, including the date
it will make a determination.
If a determination under Section
322(a) of the Act is affirmative, CITA
may provide tariff relief to a U.S.
industry to the extent necessary to
remedy or prevent serious damage or
actual threat thereof and to facilitate
adjustment by the domestic industry to
import competition. The import tariff
relief is effective beginning on the date
that CITA’s affirmative determination is
published in the Federal Register.
Entities submitting requests, responses
or rebuttals to CITA may submit both a
public and confidential version of their
submissions. If the request is accepted,
the public version will be posted on the
dedicated U.S.-Peru Free Trade
Agreement textile safeguards section of
the Office of Textiles and Apparel
(OTEXA) Web site. The confidential
version of the request, responses or
rebuttals will not be shared with the
public as they may contain business
confidential information. Entities
submitting responses or rebuttals may
use the public version of the request as
a basis for responses.
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II. Method of Collection
When an interested party files a
request for a textile and apparel
safeguard action with CITA, ten copies
of any such request must be provided in
a paper format. If business confidential
information is provided, two copies of
a non-confidential version must also be
provided. If CITA determines that the
request provides the necessary
information to be considered, it
publishes a Federal Register notice
seeking public comments on the
request.
To the extent business confidential
information is provided, a nonconfidential version must also be
provided. Any interested party may
submit information to rebut, clarify, or
correct public comments submitted by
any interested party.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625–0267.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.
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Estimated Number of Respondents: 6
(1 for Request; 5 for Comments).
Estimated Time Per Response: 4 hours
for a Request; and 4 hours for each
Comment.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 24.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $960.
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.
Dated: August 1, 2013.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–533–824]
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film,
Sheet, and Strip From India:
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
polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet,
and strip (PET Film) from India. The
period of review (POR) is July 1, 2011,
through June 30, 2012. This review
covers three respondents, Jindal Poly
Films Limited (Jindal), SRF Limited
(SRF), and Polyplex Corporation Ltd.
(Polyplex). Jindal and SRF were selected
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as the mandatory respondents while
Polyplex is the non-selected respondent.
The Department preliminarily
determines that SRF did, and that Jindal
did not, make sales of subject
merchandise at prices below normal
value (NV) during the POR. The
preliminary results are listed below in
the section titled ‘‘Preliminary Results
of Review.’’ Interested parties are
invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Effective Date: August 7, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi
Blum or Toni Page, AD/CVD
Operations, Office 6, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–0197 or (202) 482–
1398, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of the Order
The products covered by the
antidumping duty order are all gauges of
raw, pretreated, or primed PET Film,
whether extruded or coextruded.
Excluded are metallized films and other
finished films that have had at least one
of their surfaces modified by the
application of a performance-enhancing
resinous or inorganic layer of more than
0.00001 inches thick. Imports of PET
Film are currently classifiable in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) under item
number 3920.62.00.90. HTSUS
subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes. The
written description of the scope of the
antidumping duty order is dispositive.
Methodology
The Department has conducted this
review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). Export price and
constructed export price are calculated
in accordance with section 772 of the
Act. NV is calculated in accordance
with section 773 of the Act. For a full
description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum,
which is hereby adopted by this notice.1
The Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is a public document and is on file
electronically via Import
1 See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration
‘‘Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip
from India,’’ dated concurrently with this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Procedures for
Considering Requests and Comments From the Public Under the Textile
Safeguard Provision of the United States-Peru Free Trade Agreement
AGENCY: International Trade Administration (ITA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: 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 October 7, 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, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Telephone: 202-482-3400, Fax: 202-482-0858,
Email: Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321 through Section 328 of the
United States-Peru Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the
``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions,
provided for in Article 3.1 of the United States-Peru Free Trade
Agreement (the ``Agreement''). This safeguard mechanism applies when,
as a result of the elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a
Peruvian textile or apparel article 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 or actual threat thereof to a U.S. industry
producing a like or directly competitive article. In these
circumstances, Article 3.1 permits the United States to increase duties
on the imported article from Peru to a level that does not exceed the
lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal trade relations (NTR)/most-
favored-nation (MFN) duty rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty
rate in effect on the day before the Agreement entered into force.
The Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the Act
provides that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile
Agreements (CITA) will issue procedures for requesting such safeguard
measures, for making its determinations under Section 322(a) of the
Act, and for providing relief under section 322(b) of the Act.
In Proclamation No. 8341 (74 FR 4105, January 22, 2009), the
President delegated to CITA his authority under Subtitle B of Title III
of the Act with respect to textile and apparel safeguard measures.
CITA must collect information in order to determine whether a
domestic textile or apparel industry is being adversely impacted by
imports of these products from Peru, thereby allowing CITA to take
corrective action to protect the viability of the domestic textile
industry, subject to section 322(b) of the Act.
Pursuant to Section 321(a) of the Act and Section 9 of Presidential
Proclamation 8341, an interested party in the U.S. domestic textile and
apparel industry may file a request for a textile and apparel safeguard
action with CITA. Consistent with longstanding CITA practice in
considering textile safeguard actions, CITA will consider an interested
party to be an entity (which may be a trade association, firm,
certified or recognized union, or group of workers) that is
representative of either: (A) a domestic producer or producers of an
article that is like or directly competitive with the subject Peruvian
textile or apparel article; or (B) a domestic producer or producers of
a component used in the production of an article that is like or
directly competitive with the subject Peruvian textile or apparel
article.
In order for a request to be considered, the requestor must provide
the following information in support of a claim that a textile or
apparel article from Peru 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 or actual threat thereof, to a U.S. industry producing
an article that is like, or directly competitive with, the imported
article: (1) name and description of the imported article concerned;
(2) import data demonstrating that imports of a Peruvian origin textile
or apparel article that are like or directly competitive with the
articles produced by the domestic industry concerned are increasing in
absolute terms or relative to the domestic market for that article; (3)
U.S. domestic production of the like or directly competitive articles
of U.S. origin indicating the nature and extent of the serious damage
or actual threat thereof, along with an affirmation that to the best of
the requestor's knowledge, the data represent substantially all of the
domestic production of the like or directly competitive article(s) of
U.S. origin; (4) imports from Peru as a percentage of the domestic
market of the like or directly competitive article(s); and (5) all data
available to the requestor showing changes in productivity, utilization
of capacity, inventories, exports, wages, employment, domestic prices,
profits, and investment, and any other information, relating to the
existence of serious damage or actual threat thereof caused by imports
from Peru to the industry producing the like or directly competitive
article that is the subject of the request. To the extent that such
information is not available, the requestor should provide best
estimates and the basis therefore.
If CITA determines that the request provides the information
necessary for it to be considered, CITA will publish a notice in the
Federal Register seeking public comments regarding the request. The
comment period shall be 30 calendar days. The notice will include a
summary of the request. Any interested party may submit information to
rebut, clarify, or correct public
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comments submitted by any interested party.
CITA will make a determination on any request it considers within
60 calendar days of the close of the comment period. If CITA is unable
to make a determination within 60 calendar days, it will publish a
notice in the Federal Register, including the date it will make a
determination.
If a determination under Section 322(a) of the Act is affirmative,
CITA may provide tariff relief to a U.S. industry to the extent
necessary to remedy or prevent serious damage or actual threat thereof
and to facilitate adjustment by the domestic industry to import
competition. The import tariff relief is effective beginning on the
date that CITA's affirmative determination is published in the Federal
Register. Entities submitting requests, responses or rebuttals to CITA
may submit both a public and confidential version of their submissions.
If the request is accepted, the public version will be posted on the
dedicated U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement textile safeguards section of
the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) Web site. The confidential
version of the request, responses or rebuttals will not be shared with
the public as they may contain business confidential information.
Entities submitting responses or rebuttals may use the public version
of the request as a basis for responses.
II. Method of Collection
When an interested party files a request for a textile and apparel
safeguard action with CITA, ten copies of any such request must be
provided in a paper format. If business confidential information is
provided, two copies of a non-confidential version must also be
provided. If CITA determines that the request provides the necessary
information to be considered, it publishes a Federal Register notice
seeking public comments on the request.
To the extent business confidential information is provided, a non-
confidential version must also be provided. Any interested party may
submit information to rebut, clarify, or correct public comments
submitted by any interested party.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625-0267.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission (extension of a currently
approved information collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 6 (1 for Request; 5 for Comments).
Estimated Time Per Response: 4 hours for a Request; and 4 hours for
each Comment.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 24.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $960.
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.
Dated: August 1, 2013.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-18963 Filed 8-6-13; 8:45 am]
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