Request for Public Comments To Compile the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, 50377-50379 [2015-20524]

Download as PDF tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 160 / Wednesday, August 19, 2015 / Notices To make a submission via https:// www.regulations.gov, enter the docket number for this review—USTR–2015– 0013—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.’’ (For further information on using the https://www.regulations.gov Web site, please consult the resources provided on the Web site by clicking on ‘‘How to Use This Site’’ on the left side of the home page.) The https:// www.regulations.gov Web site allows users to provide comments by filling in a ‘‘Type Comment’’ field or by attaching a document using the ‘‘Upload file(s)’’ field. 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Pursuant to section 181 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 Business Confidential Petitions U.S.C. 2241), the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is An interested party requesting that required to publish annually the information contained in a submission National Trade Estimate Report on be treated as business confidential Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). With this information must certify that such information is business confidential and notice, the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is requesting interested persons would not customarily be released to to submit comments to assist it in the public by the submitter. Confidential business information must identifying significant barriers to U.S. exports of goods, services, and U.S. be clearly designated as such. The submission must be marked ‘‘BUSINESS foreign direct investment for inclusion CONFIDENTIAL’’ at the top and bottom in the NTE. The TPSC invites written comments from the public on issues that of the cover page and each succeeding USTR should examine in preparing the page, and the submission should NTE. indicate, via brackets, the specific Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade information that is confidential. and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (19 Additionally, ‘‘Business Confidential’’ U.S.C. 3106) (‘‘Section 1377’’) requires must be included in the ‘‘Type the USTR to review annually the Comment’’ field. For any submission operation and effectiveness of all U.S. containing business confidential trade agreements regarding information, a non-confidential version must be submitted separately (i.e., not as telecommunications products and services that are in force with respect to part of the same submission with the the United States. In past years, USTR confidential version), indicating where has solicited comments with regard to confidential information has been Section 1377 in a separate Federal redacted. The non-confidential version Register Notice. In 2016, USTR is will be placed in the docket and open collecting information regarding the to public inspection. trade barriers pertinent to the conduct of Business confidential submissions the review called for in Section 1377 that are submitted without the required through this notice. markings, or are not accompanied by a properly marked non-confidential DATES: Public comments are due not version, as set forth above, might not be later than 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2015. accepted or may be considered public ADDRESSES: Submissions should be documents. made via the Internet at www.regulations.gov docket number Public Viewing of Review Submissions USTR 2015–0014. For alternatives to onSubmissions in response to this line submissions please contact Yvonne notice, except for information granted Jamison (202) 395–3475. The public is ‘‘business confidential’’ status under 15 strongly encouraged to file submissions CFR part 2003.6, will be available for electronically rather than by facsimile or public viewing pursuant to 15 CFR part mail. 2007.6 at https://www.regulations.gov FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: upon completion of processing. Such Questions regarding this notice should submissions may be viewed by entering be directed to Yvonne Jamison at (202) the docket number USTR–2015–0013 in 395–3475. the search field at https:// SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NTE www.regulations.gov. sets out an inventory of the most William D. Jackson, important foreign barriers affecting U.S. Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative exports of goods and services, U.S. for the Generalized System of Preferences, foreign direct investment, and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. protection of intellectual property [FR Doc. 2015–20456 Filed 8–18–15; 8:45 am] rights. The inventory facilitates U.S. BILLING CODE 3290–F5–P negotiations aimed at reducing or eliminating these barriers. The report also provides a valuable tool in OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES enforcing U.S. trade laws and TRADE REPRESENTATIVE strengthening the rules-based trading system. The 2015 NTE Report may be Request for Public Comments To found on USTR’s Internet Home Page Compile the National Trade Estimate (https://www.ustr.gov) under the tab Report on Foreign Trade Barriers ‘‘Reports’’. To ensure compliance with the NTE’s statutory mandate and the AGENCY: Office of the United States Obama Administration’s commitment to Trade Representative. PO 00000 Frm 00116 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\19AUN1.SGM 19AUN1 tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 50378 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 160 / Wednesday, August 19, 2015 / Notices focus on the most significant foreign trade barriers, USTR will be guided by the existence of active private sector interest in deciding which restrictions to include in the NTE. Topics on which the TPSC Seeks Information: To assist USTR in preparing the NTE, commenters should submit information related to one or more of the following categories of foreign trade barriers: (1) Import policies (e.g., tariffs and other import charges, quantitative restrictions, import licensing, and customs barriers); (2) Government procurement restrictions (e.g., ‘‘buy national policies’’ and closed bidding); (3) Export subsidies (e.g., export financing on preferential terms, subsidies provided to equipment manufacturers contingent on export and agricultural export subsidies that displace U.S. exports in third country markets); (4) Lack of intellectual property protection (e.g., inadequate patent, copyright, and trademark regimes); (5) Services barriers (e.g., limits on the range of financial services offered by foreign financial institutions, regulation of international data flows, restrictions on the use of data processing, quotas on imports of foreign films, unnecessary or discriminatory technical regulations or standards for telecommunications services and barriers to the provision of services by professionals); (6) Investment barriers (e.g., limitations on foreign equity participation and on access to foreign government-funded R&D consortia, local content, technology transfer and export performance requirements, and restrictions on repatriation of earnings, capital, fees, and royalties); (7) Government-tolerated anticompetitive conduct of state-owned or private firms that restrict the sale or purchase of U.S. goods or services in the foreign country’s markets; (8) Trade restrictions affecting electronic commerce (e.g., tariff and non-tariff measures, burdensome and discriminatory regulations and standards, and discriminatory taxation); (9) Trade restrictions implemented through unwarranted Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, including unwarranted measures justified for purposes of protecting food safety, and animal and plant life or health; (10) Trade restrictions implemented through unwarranted standards, conformity assessment procedures, or technical regulations (Technical Barriers to Trade) that may have as their objective protecting national security requirements, preventing deceptive VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:14 Aug 18, 2015 Jkt 235001 practices, or protecting human health or safety, animal or plant life or health, or the environment, but that can be formulated or implemented in ways that create significant barriers to trade (including unnecessary or discriminatory technical regulations or standards for telecommunications products); and (11) Other barriers (e.g., barriers that encompass more than one category, such as bribery and corruption, or that affect a single sector). In addition, Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (19 U.S.C. 3106) (‘‘Section 1377’’) requires the USTR to review annually the operation and effectiveness of all U.S. trade agreements regarding telecommunications products and services that are in force with respect to the United States. The purpose of the review is to determine whether any act, policy, or practice of a country that has entered into a trade agreement or other telecommunications trade agreement with the United States is inconsistent with the terms of such agreement or otherwise denies U.S. firms, within the context of the terms of such agreements, mutually advantageous market opportunities for telecommunications products and services. In past years, USTR has solicited comments with regard to Section 1377 in a separate Federal Register Notice. For 2016, USTR is collecting the information with regard to the trade barriers pertinent to the Section 1377 review through this notice. Furthermore, commenters are invited to identify those barriers covered in submissions that may operate as ‘‘localization barriers to trade’’. Localization barriers are measures designed to protect, favor, or stimulate domestic industries, services providers, and or intellectual property at the expense of goods services or intellectual property from other countries, including the provision of subsidies linked to local production. For more information on localization barriers, please go to https://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/ localization-barriers. In responding to this notice, commenters should place particular emphasis on any practices that may violate U.S. trade agreements. The TPSC is also interested in receiving new or updated information pertinent to the barriers covered in the 2015 NTE as well as information on new barriers. If USTR does not include in the NTE information that it receives pursuant to this notice, it will maintain the information for potential use in future discussions or negotiations with trading partners. PO 00000 Frm 00117 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Estimate of Increase in Exports: Each comment should include an estimate of the potential increase in U.S. exports that would result from removing any foreign trade barrier the comment identifies, as well as a description of the methodology the commenter used to derive the estimate. Estimates should be expressed within the following value ranges: Less than $5 million; $5 to $25 million; $25 million to $50 million; $50 million to $100 million; $100 million to $500 million; or over $500 million. These estimates will help USTR conduct comparative analyses of a barrier’s effect over a range of industries. Requirements for Submissions: Commenters providing information on foreign trade barriers in more than one country should, whenever possible, provide a separate submission for each country. In order to ensure the timely receipt and consideration of comments, USTR strongly encourages commenters to make on-line submissions, using the https://www.regulations.gov Web site. Comments should be submitted under docket number USTR 2015–0014. Persons submitting comments must do so in English and must identify (on the first page of the submission) ‘‘Comments Regarding Foreign Trade Barriers To U.S. Exports for 2016 Reporting.’’ In order to be assured of consideration, comments should be submitted by 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2015. In order to ensure the timely receipt and consideration of comments, USTR strongly encourages commenters to make on-line submissions, using the www.regulations.gov Web site. To submit comments via www.regulations.gov enter docket number USTR 2015–0014 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 and click on the link entitled ‘‘Comment Now!’’ (For further information on using the www.regulations.gov Web site, please consult the resources provided on the Web site by clicking on ‘‘How to Use This Site’’ on the left side of the home page). The www.regulations.gov Web site allows users to provide comments by filling in a ‘‘Type Comment’’ field, or by attaching a document using an ‘‘Upload File’’ field. USTR prefers that comments be provided in an attached document. If a document is attached, please identify the name of the country to which the submission pertains in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ field. For example: ‘‘See attached comments with respect to (name of country)’’. USTR prefers submissions in Microsoft Word (.doc) or E:\FR\FM\19AUN1.SGM 19AUN1 50379 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 160 / Wednesday, August 19, 2015 / Notices Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). If the submission is in an application other than those two, please indicate the name of the application in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ field. For any comments submitted electronically containing business confidential information, the file name of the business confidential version should begin with the characters ‘‘BC’’. Any page containing business confidential must be clearly marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ on the top of that page. Filers of submissions containing business confidential information must also submit a public version of their comments. The file name of the public version should begin with the character ‘‘P’’. The ‘‘BC’’ and ‘‘P’’ should be followed by the name of the person or entity submitting the comments or reply comments. Filers submitting comments containing no business confidential information should name their file using the name of the person or entity submitting the comments. Please do not attach separate cover letters to electronic submissions; rather include any information that might appear in a cover letter in the comments themselves. Similarly to the extent possible, please include any exhibits, annexes, or other attachments in the same file as the submission itself, not as separate files. As noted, USTR strongly urges submitters to file comments through www.regulations.gov, if at all possible. Any alternative arrangements must be made with Ms. Jamison in advance of transmitting a comment. Ms. Jamison should be contacted at (202) 395–3475. General information concerning USTR is available at www.ustr.gov. Comments will be placed in the docket and open to public inspection, except confidential business information. 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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 160 (Wednesday, August 19, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50377-50379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-20524]

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Request for Public Comments To Compile the National Trade
Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 181 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2241), the Office of the United States Trade Representative
(USTR) is required to publish annually the National Trade Estimate
Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). With this notice, the Trade
Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is requesting interested persons to
submit comments to assist it in identifying significant barriers to
U.S. exports of goods, services, and U.S. foreign direct investment for
inclusion in the NTE. The TPSC invites written comments from the public
on issues that USTR should examine in preparing the NTE.
Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988
(19 U.S.C. 3106) (``Section 1377'') requires the USTR to review
annually the operation and effectiveness of all U.S. trade agreements
regarding telecommunications products and services that are in force
with respect to the United States. In past years, USTR has solicited
comments with regard to Section 1377 in a separate Federal Register
Notice. In 2016, USTR is collecting information regarding the trade
barriers pertinent to the conduct of the review called for in Section
1377 through this notice.

DATES: Public comments are due not later than 11:59 p.m., October 28,
2015.

ADDRESSES: Submissions should be made via the Internet at
www.regulations.gov docket number USTR 2015-0014. For alternatives to
on-line submissions please contact Yvonne Jamison (202) 395-3475. The
public is strongly encouraged to file submissions electronically rather
than by facsimile or mail.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding this notice should
be directed to Yvonne Jamison at (202) 395-3475.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NTE sets out an inventory of the most
important foreign barriers affecting U.S. exports of goods and
services, U.S. foreign direct investment, and protection of
intellectual property rights. The inventory facilitates U.S.
negotiations aimed at reducing or eliminating these barriers. The
report also provides a valuable tool in enforcing U.S. trade laws and
strengthening the rules-based trading system. The 2015 NTE Report may
be found on USTR's Internet Home Page (https://www.ustr.gov) under the
tab ``Reports''. To ensure compliance with the NTE's statutory mandate
and the Obama Administration's commitment to

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focus on the most significant foreign trade barriers, USTR will be
guided by the existence of active private sector interest in deciding
which restrictions to include in the NTE.
Topics on which the TPSC Seeks Information: To assist USTR in
preparing the NTE, commenters should submit information related to one
or more of the following categories of foreign trade barriers:
(1) Import policies (e.g., tariffs and other import charges,
quantitative restrictions, import licensing, and customs barriers);
(2) Government procurement restrictions (e.g., ``buy national
policies'' and closed bidding);
(3) Export subsidies (e.g., export financing on preferential terms,
subsidies provided to equipment manufacturers contingent on export and
agricultural export subsidies that displace U.S. exports in third
country markets);
(4) Lack of intellectual property protection (e.g., inadequate
patent, copyright, and trademark regimes);
(5) Services barriers (e.g., limits on the range of financial
services offered by foreign financial institutions, regulation of
international data flows, restrictions on the use of data processing,
quotas on imports of foreign films, unnecessary or discriminatory
technical regulations or standards for telecommunications services and
barriers to the provision of services by professionals);
(6) Investment barriers (e.g., limitations on foreign equity
participation and on access to foreign government-funded R&D consortia,
local content, technology transfer and export performance requirements,
and restrictions on repatriation of earnings, capital, fees, and
royalties);
(7) Government-tolerated anticompetitive conduct of state-owned or
private firms that restrict the sale or purchase of U.S. goods or
services in the foreign country's markets;
(8) Trade restrictions affecting electronic commerce (e.g., tariff
and non-tariff measures, burdensome and discriminatory regulations and
standards, and discriminatory taxation);
(9) Trade restrictions implemented through unwarranted Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures, including unwarranted measures justified for
purposes of protecting food safety, and animal and plant life or
health;
(10) Trade restrictions implemented through unwarranted standards,
conformity assessment procedures, or technical regulations (Technical
Barriers to Trade) that may have as their objective protecting national
security requirements, preventing deceptive practices, or protecting
human health or safety, animal or plant life or health, or the
environment, but that can be formulated or implemented in ways that
create significant barriers to trade (including unnecessary or
discriminatory technical regulations or standards for
telecommunications products); and
(11) Other barriers (e.g., barriers that encompass more than one
category, such as bribery and corruption, or that affect a single
sector).
In addition, Section 1377 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1988 (19 U.S.C. 3106) (``Section 1377'') requires the USTR to
review annually the operation and effectiveness of all U.S. trade
agreements regarding telecommunications products and services that are
in force with respect to the United States. The purpose of the review
is to determine whether any act, policy, or practice of a country that
has entered into a trade agreement or other telecommunications trade
agreement with the United States is inconsistent with the terms of such
agreement or otherwise denies U.S. firms, within the context of the
terms of such agreements, mutually advantageous market opportunities
for telecommunications products and services. In past years, USTR has
solicited comments with regard to Section 1377 in a separate Federal
Register Notice. For 2016, USTR is collecting the information with
regard to the trade barriers pertinent to the Section 1377 review
through this notice.
Furthermore, commenters are invited to identify those barriers
covered in submissions that may operate as ``localization barriers to
trade''. Localization barriers are measures designed to protect, favor,
or stimulate domestic industries, services providers, and or
intellectual property at the expense of goods services or intellectual
property from other countries, including the provision of subsidies
linked to local production. For more information on localization
barriers, please go to https://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/localization-barriers.
In responding to this notice, commenters should place particular
emphasis on any practices that may violate U.S. trade agreements. The
TPSC is also interested in receiving new or updated information
pertinent to the barriers covered in the 2015 NTE as well as
information on new barriers. If USTR does not include in the NTE
information that it receives pursuant to this notice, it will maintain
the information for potential use in future discussions or negotiations
with trading partners.
Estimate of Increase in Exports: Each comment should include an
estimate of the potential increase in U.S. exports that would result
from removing any foreign trade barrier the comment identifies, as well
as a description of the methodology the commenter used to derive the
estimate. Estimates should be expressed within the following value
ranges: Less than $5 million; $5 to $25 million; $25 million to $50
million; $50 million to $100 million; $100 million to $500 million; or
over $500 million. These estimates will help USTR conduct comparative
analyses of a barrier's effect over a range of industries.
Requirements for Submissions: Commenters providing information on
foreign trade barriers in more than one country should, whenever
possible, provide a separate submission for each country. In order to
ensure the timely receipt and consideration of comments, USTR strongly
encourages commenters to make on-line submissions, using the https://www.regulations.gov Web site.
Comments should be submitted under docket number USTR 2015-0014.
Persons submitting comments must do so in English and must identify (on
the first page of the submission) ``Comments Regarding Foreign Trade
Barriers To U.S. Exports for 2016 Reporting.''
In order to be assured of consideration, comments should be
submitted by 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2015. In order to ensure the
timely receipt and consideration of comments, USTR strongly encourages
commenters to make on-line submissions, using the www.regulations.gov
Web site. To submit comments via www.regulations.gov enter docket
number USTR 2015-0014 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 and click on the link
entitled ``Comment Now!'' (For further information on using the
www.regulations.gov Web site, please consult the resources provided on
the Web site by clicking on ``How to Use This Site'' on the left side
of the home page).
The www.regulations.gov Web site allows users to provide comments
by filling in a ``Type Comment'' field, or by attaching a document
using an ``Upload File'' field. USTR prefers that comments be provided
in an attached document. If a document is attached, please identify the
name of the country to which the submission pertains in the ``Type
Comment'' field. For example: ``See attached comments with respect to
(name of country)''. USTR prefers submissions in Microsoft Word (.doc)
or

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Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). If the submission is in an application other than
those two, please indicate the name of the application in the ``Type
Comment'' field. For any comments submitted electronically containing
business confidential information, the file name of the business
confidential version should begin with the characters ``BC''. Any page
containing business confidential must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS
CONFIDENTIAL'' on the top of that page. Filers of submissions
containing business confidential information must also submit a public
version of their comments. The file name of the public version should
begin with the character ``P''. The ``BC'' and ``P'' should be followed
by the name of the person or entity submitting the comments or reply
comments. Filers submitting comments containing no business
confidential information should name their file using the name of the
person or entity submitting the comments. Please do not attach separate
cover letters to electronic submissions; rather include any information
that might appear in a cover letter in the comments themselves.
Similarly to the extent possible, please include any exhibits, annexes,
or other attachments in the same file as the submission itself, not as
separate files.
As noted, USTR strongly urges submitters to file comments through
www.regulations.gov, if at all possible. Any alternative arrangements
must be made with Ms. Jamison in advance of transmitting a comment. Ms.
Jamison should be contacted at (202) 395-3475. General information
concerning USTR is available at www.ustr.gov. Comments will be placed
in the docket and open to public inspection, except confidential
business information. Comments may be viewed on the https://www.regulations.gov Web site by entering the relevant docket number in
the search field on the home page.

Edward Gresser,
Acting Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee.
[FR Doc. 2015-20524 Filed 8-18-15; 8:45 am]
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