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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.
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the USEITI Advisory Committee on July
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information is available in the meeting
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(81 FR 96032).
Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2.
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Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2017–10720 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and
Reductions: Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional
Comments Through Its Web Site
Relating to Certain Petitions Included
in Its Preliminary Report to the
Congress
United States International
Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice that the Commission will
accept additional comments from the
public on certain petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions included in
its preliminary report to the House
Committee on Ways and Means and the
Senate Committee on Finance.
AGENCY:
The Commission intends to
provide a limited opportunity for
members of the public to submit
additional comments on certain
petitions for duty suspensions and
reductions. Under the American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), the Commission will
submit a preliminary report on the
petitions for duty suspensions and
reductions that have been filed with it
to the House Ways and Means
Committee and the Senate Finance
Committee on June 9, 2017.
In that report, the Commission will
categorize petitions as (a) petitions that
meet the requirements of the Act with
or without modification (Category I, II,
III, or IV petitions), (b) petitions that do
not contain the information required by
the Act or that were not filed by a likely
beneficiary (Category V petitions), and
(c) petitions that the Commission does
not recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petitions). The Commission has decided
that it will accept additional comments
from the public on any petitions that are
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listed as Category VI petitions for a ten
day period beginning on June 12, 2017,
at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such
comments must be submitted to the
Commission electronically through the
Commission Web site https://
www.usitc.gov/mtbps. The Commission
will not accept comments filed in paper
form or in any other form or format.
DATES: June 12, 2017, 8:45 a.m. EST:
Opening date and time for submission
of additional comments on Category VI
petitions.
June 21, 2017, 5:15 p.m. EST: Closing
date and time for submission of
comments on Category VI petitions.
ADDRESSES: All Commission offices are
located in the United States
International Trade Commission
Building, 500 E Street SW., Washington,
DC. The public file for this proceeding
may be viewed on the Commission’s
MTBPS at https://www.usitc.gov/mtbps.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general inquiries, contact Jennifer
Rohrbach at mtbinfo@usitc.gov. For
filing inquiries, contact the Office of
Secretary, Docket Services division, U.S.
International Trade Commission,
telephone (202) 205–3238. The media
should contact Peg O’Laughlin, Public
Affairs Officer (202–205–1819 or
margaret.olaughlin@usitc.gov). General
information concerning the Commission
may be obtained by accessing its
internet server (https://www.usitc.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), Public Law 114–159,
May 20, 2016, 19 U.S.C. 1332 note,
established a new process for the
submission and consideration of
requests for temporary duty suspensions
and reductions. As required by the Act,
the Commission initiated the new
process by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register permitting members of
the public to submit petitions of duty
suspensions and reductions to the
Commission for a 60-day period
beginning October 14, 2017. (See 81 FR
71114 (Oct. 14, 2017)). After the
window for filing petitions closed on
December 12, 2017, the Commission
published, as required by the Act, a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing publication on its Web site
of the petitions for duty suspensions
and reductions that were submitted to
the Commission and not withdrawn. (82
FR 3357 (Jan. 11, 2017)). The notice
invited members of the public to submit
comments on these petitions during a
45-day period, which ended February
24, 2017.
Pursuant to the Act, the Commission
is required to submit preliminary and
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final reports on the petitions to the
House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance
(the Committees). The Commission’s
preliminary report is due to the
Committees on June 9, 2017. In its
preliminary report to the Committees,
the Commission must evaluate whether
petitions meet the requirements of the
Act and should be included in an
omnibus miscellaneous tariff bill.
In preparing its report, the Act
requires that the Commission take into
account the report of the Secretary of
Commerce, issued April 10, 2017. In the
report, the Secretary analyzed, for each
petition, whether there was domestic
production of the article that was the
subject of a petition, and if so, whether
a domestic producer of the article
objected to the petition. In the report,
based on consultations with Customs
and Border Protection, the Secretary
also recommended whether any
technical changes were necessary to
make each petition’s article description
administrable.
In its preliminary report, the
Commission must place these petitions
into one of six categories. Specifically,
the Commission must categorize each
petition as (a) a petition that meets the
requirements of the Act without
modification (Category I petition), (b) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III or IV petitions), (c) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or was
not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petition), or (d) a petition
that the Commission does not
recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petition).
The Commission has decided to reopen its Web site portal for the limited
purpose of allowing members of the
public to submit comments on petitions
that have been categorized as Category
VI petitions in its preliminary report.
The Commission will re-open the portal
for this limited purpose on June 12,
2017 at 8:45 a.m. and will close the
portal on June 21, 2017 at 5:15 p.m. As
discussed below, the Commission will
only accept information from the public
that relates to its decision to place these
petitions into Category VI.
Content of Comments: The public will
be able to comment on the
administrability of the article
descriptions in the petitions, the
existence of domestic producer
objections to the petitions, and other
issues affecting their placement in
Category VI. In particular, the
Commission seeks input that would
clarify or narrow the scope of proposed
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article descriptions in Category VI
petitions, including the constituent
materials in the intended merchandise
or similar information that would help
verify the classification of the goods in
chapters 1–97 of the HTS. Similarly, the
Commission seeks information that
could clarify technical criteria,
distinguish the intended merchandise in
a petition from other goods in the same
rate line, or narrow the scope of an
article description to avoid covering
domestically produced goods.
Procedures for Filing a Comment
Who may file. Comments may be filed
by any member of the public, including
the firm or its representative who filed
the petition. However, the Commission
will consider only comments that relate
to petitions listed under category VI in
the Commission’s preliminary report
submitted to the Committees on June 9,
2017. The Commission will not consider
comments that relate to petitions listed
under categories I, II, III, IV, and V in
the preliminary report.
Method for filing. Comments may
only be filed electronically via the
Commission’s designated secure MTBPS
web portal and in the format designated
by the Commission in that portal. The
portal may be accessed through the
Commission’s Web site at https://
usitc.gov under ‘‘Miscellaneous Tariff
Bill Information.’’ The portal contains a
series of prompts and links that will
assist persons in providing the required
information. The Commission will not
accept or consider comments submitted
in paper or in any other form or format.
Comments must contain all information
required in the portal in order to be
considered properly filed. Comments,
including any attachments thereto, must
otherwise comply with the
Commission’s rules and Handbook on
MTB Filing Procedures. Persons seeking
to comment on more than one petition
must submit a separate comment for
each petition.
Persons filing comments should be
aware that they must be prepared to
complete their entire comment when
they enter the portal. The portal will not
allow them to edit, amend, or complete
the comment at a later time.
Accordingly, they will need to complete
their comment at the time they enter the
portal.
Time for filing. To be considered,
comments must be filed no earlier than
June 12, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. and no later
than the close of business (5:15 p.m.
EST) on June 21, 2017. The Commission
will not accept comments filed before or
after these times and dates.
Amendment and withdrawal of
comments. The Commission’s secure
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web portal will not allow a person who
has formally submitted a comment
during this filing period to amend that
comment. Instead, that person must
withdraw the original comment and file
a new comment that incorporates the
changes. The new comment must be
filed before 5:15 p.m. EST on June 21,
2017. Comments may not be withdrawn
or amended after that time.
Comments containing confidential
business information. The portal will
permit persons submitting comments to
claim that certain information should be
treated either as confidential business
information or as information protected
from disclosure under the Privacy Act
(e.g., a home address). However,
because of the portal’s design, the portal
instructs that such information not be
included in attachments to comments.
Persons who include confidential
business information and information
protected under the Privacy Act in
attachments to their comments will be
presumed to have waived any privilege
and the information will be disclosed to
the public when the comments and
attachments are posted on the
Commission’s Web site. See further
information below on possible
disclosure of confidential business
information.
Confidential Business Information:
The Commission will not release
information which the Commission
considers to be confidential business
information within the meaning of
§ 201.6(a) of its Rules of Practice and
Procedure (19 CFR 201.6) unless the
party submitting the confidential
business information had notice, at the
time of submission, that such
information would be released by the
Commission, or such party subsequently
consents to the release of the
information.
Confidential business information
submitted to the Commission in
comments may be disclosed to and/or
used by (1) the Commission in
calculating the estimated revenue loss
required under the Act, which may be
based in whole or in part on the
estimated values of imports submitted
in comments (as well as by petitioners
in their petitions); (2) the Commission,
its employees, and contract personnel
(a) in processing petitions and
comments and preparing reports under
the American Manufacturing
Competitiveness Act of 2016 or (b) in
internal investigations, audits, reviews,
and evaluations relating to the
programs, personnel, and operations of
the Commission including under 5
U.S.C. Appendix 3; (3) Commerce for
use in preparing its report to the
Commission and the Committees, and
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the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
CBP for use in providing information for
that report; or (4) U.S. government
employees and contract personnel,
solely for cybersecurity purposes,
subject to the requirement that all
contract personnel will sign appropriate
nondisclosure agreements.
By order of the Commission.
Issued: May 19, 2017.
Lisa R. Barton,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2017–10667 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
[Investigation No. 337–TA–972]
Certain Automated Teller Machines,
ATM Modules, Components Thereof,
and Products Containing the Same;
Final Determination Finding a Violation
of Section 337; Issuance of a Limited
Exclusion Order and Cease and Desist
Orders; Termination of the
Investigation
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. International Trade
Commission has found a violation of
section 337 in this investigation and has
issued a limited exclusion order and
cease and desist orders prohibiting
importation of infringing automated
teller machines (‘‘ATMs’’), ATM
modules, components thereof, and
products containing the same.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sidney A. Rosenzweig, Office of the
General Counsel, U.S. International
Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20436, telephone 202–
708–2532. Copies of non-confidential
documents filed in connection with this
investigation are or will be available for
inspection during official business
hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the
Office of the Secretary, U.S.
International Trade Commission, 500 E
Street SW., Washington, DC 20436,
telephone 202–205–2000. General
information concerning the Commission
may also be obtained by accessing its
Internet server (https://www.usitc.gov).
The public record for this investigation
may be viewed on the Commission’s
electronic docket (EDIS) at https://
edis.usitc.gov. Hearing-impaired
persons are advised that information on
this matter can be obtained by
contacting the Commission’s TDD
terminal on 202–205–1810.
SUMMARY:
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and Reductions: Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional Comments Through Its Web Site
Relating to Certain Petitions Included in Its Preliminary Report to the
Congress
AGENCY: United States International Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice that the Commission will accept additional comments from
the public on certain petitions for duty suspensions and reductions
included in its preliminary report to the House Committee on Ways and
Means and the Senate Committee on Finance.
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SUMMARY: The Commission intends to provide a limited opportunity for
members of the public to submit additional comments on certain
petitions for duty suspensions and reductions. Under the American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 (the Act), the Commission
will submit a preliminary report on the petitions for duty suspensions
and reductions that have been filed with it to the House Ways and Means
Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on June 9, 2017.
In that report, the Commission will categorize petitions as (a)
petitions that meet the requirements of the Act with or without
modification (Category I, II, III, or IV petitions), (b) petitions that
do not contain the information required by the Act or that were not
filed by a likely beneficiary (Category V petitions), and (c) petitions
that the Commission does not recommend for inclusion in a miscellaneous
tariff bill (Category VI petitions). The Commission has decided that it
will accept additional comments from the public on any petitions that
are listed as Category VI petitions for a ten day period beginning on
June 12, 2017, at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such comments must
be submitted to the Commission electronically through the Commission
Web site https://www.usitc.gov/mtbps. The Commission will not accept
comments filed in paper form or in any other form or format.
DATES: June 12, 2017, 8:45 a.m. EST: Opening date and time for
submission of additional comments on Category VI petitions.
June 21, 2017, 5:15 p.m. EST: Closing date and time for submission
of comments on Category VI petitions.
ADDRESSES: All Commission offices are located in the United States
International Trade Commission Building, 500 E Street SW., Washington,
DC. The public file for this proceeding may be viewed on the
Commission's MTBPS at https://www.usitc.gov/mtbps.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general inquiries, contact
Jennifer Rohrbach at mtbinfo@usitc.gov. For filing inquiries, contact
the Office of Secretary, Docket Services division, U.S. International
Trade Commission, telephone (202) 205-3238. The media should contact
Peg O'Laughlin, Public Affairs Officer (202-205-1819 or
margaret.olaughlin@usitc.gov). General information concerning the
Commission may be obtained by accessing its internet server (https://www.usitc.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016
(the Act), Public Law 114-159, May 20, 2016, 19 U.S.C. 1332 note,
established a new process for the submission and consideration of
requests for temporary duty suspensions and reductions. As required by
the Act, the Commission initiated the new process by publishing a
notice in the Federal Register permitting members of the public to
submit petitions of duty suspensions and reductions to the Commission
for a 60-day period beginning October 14, 2017. (See 81 FR 71114 (Oct.
14, 2017)). After the window for filing petitions closed on December
12, 2017, the Commission published, as required by the Act, a notice in
the Federal Register announcing publication on its Web site of the
petitions for duty suspensions and reductions that were submitted to
the Commission and not withdrawn. (82 FR 3357 (Jan. 11, 2017)). The
notice invited members of the public to submit comments on these
petitions during a 45-day period, which ended February 24, 2017.
Pursuant to the Act, the Commission is required to submit
preliminary and final reports on the petitions to the House Committee
on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance (the Committees).
The Commission's preliminary report is due to the Committees on June 9,
2017. In its preliminary report to the Committees, the Commission must
evaluate whether petitions meet the requirements of the Act and should
be included in an omnibus miscellaneous tariff bill.
In preparing its report, the Act requires that the Commission take
into account the report of the Secretary of Commerce, issued April 10,
2017. In the report, the Secretary analyzed, for each petition, whether
there was domestic production of the article that was the subject of a
petition, and if so, whether a domestic producer of the article
objected to the petition. In the report, based on consultations with
Customs and Border Protection, the Secretary also recommended whether
any technical changes were necessary to make each petition's article
description administrable.
In its preliminary report, the Commission must place these
petitions into one of six categories. Specifically, the Commission must
categorize each petition as (a) a petition that meets the requirements
of the Act without modification (Category I petition), (b) a petition
that meets the requirements of the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III or IV petitions), (c) a petition that does not
contain the information required by the Act or was not filed by a
likely beneficiary (Category V petition), or (d) a petition that the
Commission does not recommend for inclusion in a miscellaneous tariff
bill (Category VI petition).
The Commission has decided to re-open its Web site portal for the
limited purpose of allowing members of the public to submit comments on
petitions that have been categorized as Category VI petitions in its
preliminary report. The Commission will re-open the portal for this
limited purpose on June 12, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. and will close the portal
on June 21, 2017 at 5:15 p.m. As discussed below, the Commission will
only accept information from the public that relates to its decision to
place these petitions into Category VI.
Content of Comments: The public will be able to comment on the
administrability of the article descriptions in the petitions, the
existence of domestic producer objections to the petitions, and other
issues affecting their placement in Category VI. In particular, the
Commission seeks input that would clarify or narrow the scope of
proposed
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article descriptions in Category VI petitions, including the
constituent materials in the intended merchandise or similar
information that would help verify the classification of the goods in
chapters 1-97 of the HTS. Similarly, the Commission seeks information
that could clarify technical criteria, distinguish the intended
merchandise in a petition from other goods in the same rate line, or
narrow the scope of an article description to avoid covering
domestically produced goods.
Procedures for Filing a Comment
Who may file. Comments may be filed by any member of the public,
including the firm or its representative who filed the petition.
However, the Commission will consider only comments that relate to
petitions listed under category VI in the Commission's preliminary
report submitted to the Committees on June 9, 2017. The Commission will
not consider comments that relate to petitions listed under categories
I, II, III, IV, and V in the preliminary report.
Method for filing. Comments may only be filed electronically via
the Commission's designated secure MTBPS web portal and in the format
designated by the Commission in that portal. The portal may be accessed
through the Commission's Web site at https://usitc.gov under
``Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Information.'' The portal contains a series
of prompts and links that will assist persons in providing the required
information. The Commission will not accept or consider comments
submitted in paper or in any other form or format. Comments must
contain all information required in the portal in order to be
considered properly filed. Comments, including any attachments thereto,
must otherwise comply with the Commission's rules and Handbook on MTB
Filing Procedures. Persons seeking to comment on more than one petition
must submit a separate comment for each petition.
Persons filing comments should be aware that they must be prepared
to complete their entire comment when they enter the portal. The portal
will not allow them to edit, amend, or complete the comment at a later
time. Accordingly, they will need to complete their comment at the time
they enter the portal.
Time for filing. To be considered, comments must be filed no
earlier than June 12, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. and no later than the close of
business (5:15 p.m. EST) on June 21, 2017. The Commission will not
accept comments filed before or after these times and dates.
Amendment and withdrawal of comments. The Commission's secure web
portal will not allow a person who has formally submitted a comment
during this filing period to amend that comment. Instead, that person
must withdraw the original comment and file a new comment that
incorporates the changes. The new comment must be filed before 5:15
p.m. EST on June 21, 2017. Comments may not be withdrawn or amended
after that time.
Comments containing confidential business information. The portal
will permit persons submitting comments to claim that certain
information should be treated either as confidential business
information or as information protected from disclosure under the
Privacy Act (e.g., a home address). However, because of the portal's
design, the portal instructs that such information not be included in
attachments to comments. Persons who include confidential business
information and information protected under the Privacy Act in
attachments to their comments will be presumed to have waived any
privilege and the information will be disclosed to the public when the
comments and attachments are posted on the Commission's Web site. See
further information below on possible disclosure of confidential
business information.
Confidential Business Information: The Commission will not release
information which the Commission considers to be confidential business
information within the meaning of Sec. 201.6(a) of its Rules of
Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 201.6) unless the party submitting the
confidential business information had notice, at the time of
submission, that such information would be released by the Commission,
or such party subsequently consents to the release of the information.
Confidential business information submitted to the Commission in
comments may be disclosed to and/or used by (1) the Commission in
calculating the estimated revenue loss required under the Act, which
may be based in whole or in part on the estimated values of imports
submitted in comments (as well as by petitioners in their petitions);
(2) the Commission, its employees, and contract personnel (a) in
processing petitions and comments and preparing reports under the
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 or (b) in internal
investigations, audits, reviews, and evaluations relating to the
programs, personnel, and operations of the Commission including under 5
U.S.C. Appendix 3; (3) Commerce for use in preparing its report to the
Commission and the Committees, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and CBP for use in providing information for that report; or (4) U.S.
government employees and contract personnel, solely for cybersecurity
purposes, subject to the requirement that all contract personnel will
sign appropriate nondisclosure agreements.
By order of the Commission.
Issued: May 19, 2017.
Lisa R. Barton,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2017-10667 Filed 5-24-17; 8:45 am]
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