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directed to Laurie Mease, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Telephone: 202–482–
2043, Email: Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Procedures for
Considering Requests and Comments
From the Public for Textile and Apparel
Safeguard Actions on Imports From
Colombia
International Trade
Administration (ITA), Commerce.
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 August 10, 2015.
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
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I. Abstract
Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321
through Section 328 of the United
States-Colombia Trade Promotion
Agreement Implementation Act (the
‘‘Act’’) [Pub. L. 112–42] implements the
textile and apparel safeguard provisions,
provided for in Article 3.1 of the United
States-Colombia Trade Promotion
Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’). This
safeguard mechanism applies when, as
a result of the elimination of a customs
duty under the Agreement, a Colombian
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
Colombia to a level that does not exceed
the lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal
trade relations (NTR)/most-favorednation (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. 8818 (77 FR
29519, May 18, 2012), 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 Colombia, 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 8818, 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
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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
Colombian 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 Colombian
textile or apparel article.
In order for a request to be
considered, the requester must provide
the following information in support of
a claim that a textile or apparel article
from Colombia 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
Colombian 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 requester’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 Colombia as a
percentage of the domestic market of the
like or directly competitive article; and
(5) all data available to the requester
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
Colombia 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 requester 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
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calendar days. The notice will include
a summary of the request. Any
interested party may submit information
to rebut, clarify, or correct public
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(b) 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
Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
textile safeguards section of the Office of
Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) Web site.
The confidential version of the requests,
responses or rebuttals will not be shared
with the public as it 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.
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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625–0271.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
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.
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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: June 5, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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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—Colombia Trade
Promotion Agreement (U.S.-Colombia
TPA)
International Trade
Administration, Commerce.
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 August 10, 2015.
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
SUMMARY:
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copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Laurie Mease, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, Telephone: 202–
482–2043, Email: Laurie.Mease@
trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Title II, Section 203(o) of the United
States-Colombia Trade Promotion
Agreement Implementation Act (the
‘‘Act’’) [Public Law 112–42] implements
the commercial availability provision
provided for in Article 3.3 of the United
States-Colombia Trade Promotion
Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’). The
Agreement entered into force on May
15, 2012. 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 Colombia 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
Colombia 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
Colombia 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 Colombia 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 of the
Agreement.
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. Section
203(o)(4) of the Act authorizes the
President to establish procedures to
modify the list of fabrics, yarns, or fibers
not available in commercial quantities
in a timely manner in either the United
States or Colombia as set out in Annex
3–B of the Agreement. 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.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Procedures for
Considering Requests and Comments From the Public for Textile and
Apparel Safeguard Actions on Imports From Colombia
AGENCY: International Trade Administration (ITA), Commerce.
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 August 10, 2015.
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: 202-482-2043, Email:
Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321 through Section 328 of the
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
(the ``Act'') [Pub. L. 112-42] implements the textile and apparel
safeguard provisions, provided for in Article 3.1 of the United States-
Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (the ``Agreement''). This safeguard
mechanism applies when, as a result of the elimination of a customs
duty under the Agreement, a Colombian 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 Colombia 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. 8818 (77 FR 29519, May 18, 2012), 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 Colombia, 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 8818, 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
Colombian 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 Colombian textile or
apparel article.
In order for a request to be considered, the requester must provide
the following information in support of a claim that a textile or
apparel article from Colombia 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 Colombian 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 requester'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 Colombia as a percentage of
the domestic market of the like or directly competitive article; and
(5) all data available to the requester 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 Colombia 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 requester 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
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calendar days. The notice will include a summary of the request. Any
interested party may submit information to rebut, clarify, or correct
public 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(b) 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 Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement textile safeguards section
of the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) Web site. The
confidential version of the requests, responses or rebuttals will not
be shared with the public as it 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.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625-0271.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
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: June 5, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-14217 Filed 6-10-15; 8:45 am]
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