Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests and Comments From the Public for Textile and Apparel Safeguard Actions on Imports From Korea, 73702-73704 [2015-29932]
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Dated: November 16, 2015.
Christian Marsh,
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and Countervailing Duty Operations.
than 140 days after the date of initiation,
unless postponed. Currently, the
preliminary determinations in these
investigations are due no later than
January 19, 2016.2
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Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
number of firms whose activities must
From Australia, Brazil, Japan, the
be investigated, and additional time is
Republic of Korea, the Netherlands,
the Republic of Turkey, and the United necessary to make the preliminary
determination. Under this section of the
Kingdom: Postponement of
Act, the Department may postpone the
Preliminary Determinations of
preliminary determination until no later
Antidumping Duty Investigations
than 190 days after the date on which
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
the Department initiated the
International Trade Administration,
investigation.
Department of Commerce.
The Department determines that the
parties involved in these hot-rolled steel
DATES: Effective date: November 25,
AD investigations are cooperating, and
2015.
that the investigations are
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extraordinarily complicated. Additional
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(Australia); Yang Jin Chun at (202) 482– time is required to analyze the
questionnaire responses and issue
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appropriate requests for clarification
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and additional information.
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Therefore, in accordance with section
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733(c)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR
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351.205(f)(1), the Department is
at (202) 482–1396 (the Republic of
postponing the time period for the
Turkey (‘‘Turkey’’)); and Catherine
preliminary determinations of these
Cartsos at (202) 482–1757 (the United
investigations by 50 days, to March 8,
Kingdom), AD/CVD Operations,
2016. Pursuant to section 735(a)(l) of the
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S.
Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
deadline for the final determinations
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will continue to be 75 days after the
Washington, DC 20230.
date of the preliminary determinations,
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unless postponed at a later date.
This notice is issued and published
Background
pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act
On August 31, 2015, the Department
and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
of Commerce (the ‘‘Department’’)
Dated: November 17, 2015.
initiated antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’)
investigations of imports of certain hotPaul Piquado,
rolled steel flat products (‘‘hot-rolled
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
steel’’) from Australia, Brazil, Japan,
Compliance.
Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the [FR Doc. 2015–29936 Filed 11–24–15; 8:45 am]
United Kingdom.1 The notice of
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initiation stated that, in accordance with
2 The deadline for the preliminary determinations
section 733(b)(l)(A) of the Tariff Act of
is normally 140 days after we initiated these
1930, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’), and 19
investigations, or January 18, 2016, which is a
CFR 351.205(b)(1), we would issue our
Federal holiday. Department practice dictates that
preliminary determinations no later
where a deadline falls on a weekend or Federal
1 See
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from
Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the
Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the
United Kingdom: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair Value
Investigations, 80 FR 54261(September 9, 2015).
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holiday, the appropriate deadline is the next
business day (in this instance, January 19, 2016).
See Notice of Clarification: Application of ‘‘Next
Business Day’’ Rule for Administrative
Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act
of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Interim Procedures
for Considering Requests and
Comments From the Public for Textile
and Apparel Safeguard Actions on
Imports From Korea
International Trade
Administration.
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 January 25, 2016.
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 Maria D’Andrea, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Tel. (202) 482–1550,
Maria.D’Andrea@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Abstract
Article 4.1 of the U.S.-Korea Free
Trade Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’)
provides for a textile and apparel
safeguard mechanism. This safeguard
mechanism applies when, as a result of
the reduction or elimination of a
customs duty under the Agreement, a
Korean 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
4.1 permits the United States to (a)
suspend any further reduction in the
rate of duty provided for under Annex
2–B of the Agreement in the duty
imposed on the article; or (b) increase
duties on the imported article from
Korea to a level that does not exceed the
lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal
trade relations (‘‘NTR’’)/most-favored-
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nation (‘‘MFN’’) duty rate for the article
or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect
on the day before the Agreement enters
into force.
The Statement of Administrative
Action accompanying the U.S.-Korea
Free Trade Agreement Implementation
Act (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 332(a) of
the Act, and for providing relief under
section 332(b) of the Act.
In Proclamation No. 8783 (77 FR
14265, March 9, 2012), the President
delegated to CITA his authority under
Subtitle C of Title III of the Act with
respect to textile and apparel safeguard
measures.
The textile and apparel safeguard
mechanism will be of considerable
benefit to firms manufacturing textile
and apparel goods in the United States
in the event that an industry finds itself
to be adversely impacted by preferential
duty or duty-free imports of textiles and
apparel from Korea.
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 Korea, thereby allowing
CITA to take corrective action to protect
the viability of the domestic textile and
apparel industry, subject to section
332(b) of the Act.
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 and
apparel 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 Korean 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 Korean
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 Korea 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
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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 Korea
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 Korea 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
Korea 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
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.
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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 Korea
Free Trade Agreement textile safeguards
section of the Office of Textile and
Apparel (OTEXA) Web site. The
confidential version of the request,
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. 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: 0625–0269.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Business.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 14
(4 for Request; 10 for Comments).
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
(for each Request) 4 hours (for each
Comment).
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 56 hours (16 hours for Requests;
40 hours for Comments).
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $2,800.
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
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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: November 19, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–535–904]
Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel
Pipe From Pakistan: Initiation of
Countervailing Duty Investigation
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective Date: November 17,
2015.
domestic producers of circular welded
pipe.3
On November 2, 2015, the Department
requested supplemental information
pertaining to certain areas of the
Petition.4 Petitioners filed responses to
these requests on November 4, 2015.5
Petitioners submitted additional
supplemental information on November
9, 2015,6 and November 10, 2015.7
In accordance with section 702(b)(1)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), Petitioners allege that the
Government of Pakistan (GOP) is
providing countervailable subsidies,
within the meaning of sections 701 and
771(5) of the Act, to imports of circular
welded pipe from Pakistan and that
such imports are materially injuring, or
threatening material injury to, an
industry in the United States. Also,
consistent with section 702(b)(1) of the
Act, for those alleged programs in
Pakistan on which we have initiated a
CVD investigation, the Petition is
accompanied by information reasonably
available to Petitioners supporting their
allegations.
AGENCY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kaitlin Wojnar at (202) 482–3857, Office
VII, AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Petition
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On October 28, 2015, the Department
of Commerce (the Department) received
a countervailing duty (CVD) petition
concerning imports of circular welded
carbon-quality steel pipe (circular
welded pipe) from Pakistan, filed in
proper form on behalf of Bull Moose
Tube Company, EXLTUBE, Wheatland
Tube Company, and Western Tube and
Conduit (collectively, Petitioners).1 The
CVD petition was accompanied by an
antidumping duty (AD) petition
concerning imports of circular welded
pipe from Pakistan.2 Petitioners are
1 See Letter from Petitioners, ‘‘Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duties: Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe
from the Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the
Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam,’’ October 28, 2015
(the Petition), Volumes I and IV.
2 Id., Volume II. Petitioners also filed AD
petitions regarding the Sultanate of Oman, the
Republic of the Philippines, the United Arab
Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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3 Id.,
Volume I at 2.
Letter from the Department, ‘‘Petitions for
the Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duties on Imports of Circular Welded Pipe from
Pakistan: Supplemental Questions,’’ November 2,
2015 (General Issues Supplemental Questionnaire);
Letter from the Department, ‘‘Petition for the
Imposition of Countervailing Duties on Imports of
Circular Welded Pipe from Pakistan: Supplemental
Questions,’’ November 2, 2015.
5 See Letter from Petitioners, ‘‘Response to
Supplemental Questions Regarding Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping Duties on Imports of
Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the
Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the Republic of the
Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Countervailing
Duties on Imports of Circular Welded CarbonQuality Steel Pipe from Pakistan,’’ November 4,
2015 (General Issues Supplement); see also Letter
from Petitioners, ‘‘Circular Welded Carbon-Quality
Steel Pipe from Pakistan: Response to the
Department’s November 2, 2015 Questionnaire
Regarding Volume IV of the Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duties,’’ November 4, 2015.
6 See Letter from Petitioners, ‘‘Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping Duties on Imports of
Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the
Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the Republic of the
Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Countervailing
Duties on Imports of Circular Welded Carbon
Quality-Steel Pipe from Pakistan: Response to
Issues Identified in the November 6, 2015 Phone
Call,’’ November 9, 2015 (Second General Issues
Supplement).
7 See Letter from Petitioners, ‘‘Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping Duties on Imports of
Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe from the
Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, the Republic of the
Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Countervailing
Duties on Imports of Circular Welded Carbon
Quality-Steel Pipe from Pakistan: Second Response
to Issues Identified in the November 6, 2015 Phone
Call,’’ November 10, 2015 (Third General Issues
Supplement).
4 See
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The Department finds that Petitioners
filed the Petition on behalf of the
domestic industry because Petitioners
are interested parties as defined in
section 771(9)(C) of the Act. The
Department also finds that Petitioners
demonstrated sufficient industry
support with respect to the initiation of
the CVD investigation that Petitioners
are requesting.8
Period of Investigation
The period of investigation is January
1, 2014, through December 31, 2014.9
Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this
investigation is circular welded carbonquality steel pipe from Pakistan. For a
full description of the scope of this
investigation, see Appendix I of this
notice.
Comments on Scope of the Investigation
During our review of the Petition, the
Department issued questions to and
received responses from Petitioners
pertaining to the proposed scope to
ensure that the scope language in the
Petition would be an accurate reflection
of the products for which the domestic
industry is seeking relief.10 As
discussed in the preamble to the
Department’s regulations,11 we are
setting aside a period for interested
parties to raise issues regarding product
coverage (i.e., scope). The Department
will consider all comments received
from interested parties and, if necessary,
will consult with the interested parties
prior to the issuance of the preliminary
determination. If scope comments
include factual information,12 all such
factual information should be limited to
public information. In order to facilitate
preparation of its questionnaire, the
Department requests all interested
parties to submit such comments by
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Monday,
December 7, 2015, which is 20 calendar
days from the signature date of this
notice. Any rebuttal comments, which
may include factual information, must
be filed by 5:00 p.m. ET on Thursday,
December 17, 2015, which is 10
calendar days after the initial comments
deadline.
The Department requests that any
factual information the parties consider
8 See ‘‘Determination of Industry Support for the
Petition’’ section, below.
9 See 19 CFR 351.204(b)(2).
10 See General Issues Supplemental
Questionnaire; see also General Issues Supplement;
Second General Issues Supplement.
11 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing
Duties; Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19,
1997).
12 See 19 CFR 351.102(b)(21).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim
Procedures for Considering Requests and Comments From the Public for
Textile and Apparel Safeguard Actions on Imports From Korea
AGENCY: International Trade Administration.
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 January 25,
2016.
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 Maria D'Andrea, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Tel. (202) 482-1550, Maria.D'Andrea@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Article 4.1 of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (the
``Agreement'') provides for a textile and apparel safeguard mechanism.
This safeguard mechanism applies when, as a result of the reduction or
elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a Korean 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 4.1
permits the United States to (a) suspend any further reduction in the
rate of duty provided for under Annex 2-B of the Agreement in the duty
imposed on the article; or (b) increase duties on the imported article
from Korea to a level that does not exceed the lesser of the prevailing
U.S. normal trade relations (``NTR'')/most-favored-
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nation (``MFN'') duty rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty
rate in effect on the day before the Agreement enters into force.
The Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the U.S.-Korea
Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (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 332(a) of the Act, and for providing
relief under section 332(b) of the Act.
In Proclamation No. 8783 (77 FR 14265, March 9, 2012), the
President delegated to CITA his authority under Subtitle C of Title III
of the Act with respect to textile and apparel safeguard measures.
The textile and apparel safeguard mechanism will be of considerable
benefit to firms manufacturing textile and apparel goods in the United
States in the event that an industry finds itself to be adversely
impacted by preferential duty or duty-free imports of textiles and
apparel from Korea.
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 Korea, thereby allowing CITA to take
corrective action to protect the viability of the domestic textile and
apparel industry, subject to section 332(b) of the Act.
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 and apparel 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 Korean
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 Korean 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 Korea 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 Korea 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 Korea 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 Korea 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 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 Korea Free Trade Agreement textile safeguards section of the
Office of Textile and Apparel (OTEXA) Web site. The confidential
version of the request, 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. 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: 0625-0269.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Individuals or Business.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 14 (4 for Request; 10 for
Comments).
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours (for each Request) 4 hours
(for each Comment).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 56 hours (16 hours for
Requests; 40 hours for Comments).
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $2,800.
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
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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: November 19, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-29932 Filed 11-24-15; 8:45 am]
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