Applications for Corporation for Travel Promotion Board of Directors, 34862-34863 [2019-15361]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
34862
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 139 / Friday, July 19, 2019 / Notices
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this
notice in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: June 12, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Margin Calculations
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Certain U.S. Sales Incorrectly
Excluded from Margin Calculation
Comment 2: Correction of Clerical Error
Comment 3: Commerce Should Not Use the
Tetra Control Number (CONNUM) as a
Surrogate for the Hexa CONNUM
Comment 4: Commerce Should Deduct
Indirect Selling Expenses Incurred in the
Comparison Market
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2019–15300 Filed 7–18–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Applications for Corporation for Travel
Promotion Board of Directors
International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for
travel and tourism industry leaders to
apply for membership on the Board of
Directors of the Corporation for Travel
Promotion.
AGENCY:
The Department of Commerce
is currently seeking applications from
travel and tourism leaders from specific
industries for membership on the Board
of Directors (Board) of the Corporation
for Travel Promotion (doing business as
Brand USA). The purpose of the Board
is to guide the Corporation for Travel
Promotion on matters relating to the
promotion of the United States as a
travel destination and communication
of travel facilitation issues, among other
tasks.
DATES: All applications must be
received by the National Travel and
Tourism Office by close of business on
Friday, August 16, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please submit application
information by email to CTPBoard@
trade.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie
Heizer, National Travel and Tourism
jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES
SUMMARY:
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:36 Jul 18, 2019
Jkt 247001
Office, U.S. Department of Commerce,
1401 Constitution Avenue NW,
MS10003, Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: 202–482–0140; email:
CTPBoard@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (TPA) was
signed into law on March 4, 2010, and
was amended in July 2010 and
December 2014. The TPA established
the Corporation for Travel Promotion
(the Corporation), as a non-profit
corporation charged with the
development and execution of a plan to
(A) provide useful information to those
interested in traveling to the United
States; (B) identify and address
perceptions regarding U.S. entry
policies; (C) maximize economic and
diplomatic benefits of travel to the
United States through the use of various
promotional tools; (D) ensure that
international travel benefits all States
and the District of Columbia, and (E)
identify opportunities to promote
tourism to rural and urban areas
equally, including areas not
traditionally visited by international
travelers.
The Corporation is governed by a
Board of Directors, consisting of 11
members with knowledge of
international travel promotion or
marketing, broadly representing various
regions of the United States. The TPA
directs the Secretary of Commerce (after
consultation with the Secretary of
Homeland Security and the Secretary of
State) to appoint the Board of Directors
for the Corporation.
At this time, the Department will be
selecting four individuals with the
appropriate expertise and experience
from specific sectors of the travel and
tourism industry to serve on the Board
as follows:
(A) 1 shall have appropriate expertise
and experience in the attractions or
recreation sector;
(B) 1 shall have appropriate expertise
and experience in the immigration
policy/law sector;
(C) 1 shall have appropriate expertise
and experience in the land or sea
passenger transportation sector; and
(D) 1 shall have appropriate expertise
and experience in the passenger air
sector.
To be eligible for Board membership,
individuals must have international
travel and tourism marketing
experience, be a current or former chief
executive officer, chief financial officer,
or chief marketing officer or have held
an equivalent management position.
Additional consideration will be given
to individuals who have experience
working in U.S. multinational entities
PO 00000
Frm 00014
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
with marketing budgets, and/or who are
audit committee financial experts as
defined by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (in accordance with 15
U.S.C. 7265). Individuals must be U.S.
citizens, and in addition, cannot be
federally registered lobbyists or
registered as a foreign agent under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938,
as amended.
Those selected for the Board must be
able to meet the time and effort
commitments of the Board.
Board members serve at the discretion
of the Secretary of Commerce (who may
remove any member of the Board for
good cause). The terms of office of each
member of the Board appointed by the
Secretary shall be three (3) years. Board
members can serve a maximum of two
consecutive full three-year terms. Board
members are not considered Federal
government employees by virtue of their
service as a member of the Board and
will receive no compensation from the
Federal government for their
participation in Board activities.
Members participating in Board
meetings and events may be paid actual
travel expenses and per diem by the
Corporation when away from their usual
places of residence.
Individuals who want to be
considered for appointment to the Board
should submit the following
information by the Friday, August 16,
2019 deadline to the address listed in
the ADDRESSES section above:
1. Name, title, and personal resume of
the individual requesting consideration,
including address, email address and
phone number.
2. A brief statement of why the person
should be considered for appointment
to the Board. This statement should also
address the individual’s relevant
international travel and tourism
marketing experience and audit
committee financial expertise, if any,
and indicate clearly the sector or sectors
enumerated above in which the
individual has the requisite expertise
and experience. Individuals who have
the requisite expertise and experience in
more than one sector can be appointed
for only one of those sectors.
Appointments of members to the Board
will be made by the Secretary of
Commerce.
3. An affirmative statement that the
applicant is a U.S. citizen, is not a
federally-registered lobbyist and further,
is not required to register as a foreign
agent under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
4. If applicable, a statement
acknowledging that the applicant is an
audit committee financial expert as
defined by the Securities and Exchange
E:\FR\FM\19JYN1.SGM
19JYN1
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 139 / Friday, July 19, 2019 / Notices
Commission (in accordance with 15
U.S.C. 7265).
Dated: July 12, 2019.
Julie Heizer,
Deputy Director, National Travel and Tourism
Office.
[FR Doc. 2019–15361 Filed 7–18–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–489–824]
Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded
Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From
the Republic of Turkey: Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Preliminary
Determination of No Shipments; 2017–
2018
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
AGENCY:
The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) is conducting an
administrative review of heavy walled
rectangular welded carbon steel pipes
and tubes (HWR pipes and tubes) from
the Republic of Turkey (Turkey) for the
period of review (POR) September 1,
2017 through August 31, 2018. We
preliminarily determine that Noksel
Celik Boru Sanayi A.S., a producer and/
or exporter subject to this administrative
review, made sales of subject
merchandise at less than normal value
during the POR. We also preliminarily
determine that Cinar Boru Profil San Ve
Tic A.S. had no shipments during the
POR. If these preliminary results are
adopted in the final results, Commerce
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping
(AD) duties on all appropriate entries of
subject merchandise. Interested parties
are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Applicable July 19, 2019.
jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Horn or Alexis Cherry, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VIII,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4868 or
(202) 482–0607, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 15, 2018, Commerce
published a notice of initiation of an
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:36 Jul 18, 2019
Jkt 247001
administrative review of the AD order 1
on HWR pipes and tubes from Turkey.2
The Initiation Notice covered the
following producers/exporters of the
subject merchandise: (1) Agir
Haddecilik A.S.; (2) Cinar Boru Profil
San Ve Tic A.S. (Cinar Boru); 3 (3) MTS
Lojistik ve Tasimacilik Hizmetleri TIC
A.S. Istanbul; (4) Noksel Celik Boru
Sanayi A.S. (Noksel); and (5) Ozdemir
Boru Profil San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti
(Ozdemir).4 On December 17, 2018, we
selected Noksel as the mandatory
respondent in this review; 5 however,
Noksel notified Commerce that it did
not intend to participate.6 On February
22, 2019, we selected Cinar Boru as the
new mandatory respondent.7 On March
14, 2019, Cinar Boru notified Commerce
that it did not ship any subject
merchandise to the United States during
the POR.8
Commerce exercised its discretion to
toll all deadlines affected by the partial
federal government closure from
December 22, 2018 through the
resumption of operations on January 29,
2019.9 The revised deadline for the
preliminary results is July 12, 2019.
1 See Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon
Steel Pipes and Tubes from the Republic of Korea,
Mexico, and the Republic of Turkey: Antidumping
Duty Orders, 81 FR 62865 (September 13, 2016)
(Order).
2 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 83 FR
57411 (November 15, 2018) (Initiation Notice).
3 In the Initiation Notice, Commerce initiated a
review of Cinar Boru Profil San Ve Tic Stl.
However, the company has identified itself as Cinar
Boru Profil San Ve Tic A.S. in its letters to
Commerce. See, e.g., Cinar Boru’s Letter, ‘‘Heavy
Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and
Tubes from Turkey (A–489–824),’’ dated March 14,
2019 (Cinar Boru’s No Shipment Letter). Commerce
is hereby using Cinar Boru’s spelling of its name.
4 In the Initiation Notice, we failed to clarify that
HWR pipes and tubes that are produced and
exported by Ozdemir are excluded from the Order.
See Order, 81 FR at 62866. Thus, Ozdemir’s
inclusion in this administrative review is limited to
entries for which Ozdemir was not both the
exporter and producer of the subject merchandise.
5 See Memorandum, ‘‘2017–2018 Administrative
Review of Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded
Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from the Republic of
Turkey: Respondent Selection,’’ dated December 17,
2018 (Respondent Selection Memorandum).
6 See Noksel’s Letter, ‘‘Heavy Walled Rectangular
Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Turkey
(A–489–824),’’ dated February 4, 2019.
7 See Memorandum, ‘‘2017–2018 Administrative
Review of Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded
Carbon and Steel Pipes and Tubes from the
Republic of Turkey: Second Respondent Selection,’’
dated February 22, 2019 (Second Respondent
Selection Memorandum).
8 See Cinar Boru’s No Shipment Letter.
9 See Memorandum to the Record from Gary
Taverman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
performing the non-exclusive functions and duties
of the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, ‘‘Deadlines Affected by the Partial
Shutdown of the Federal Government,’’ dated
January 28, 2019. All deadlines in this segment of
the proceeding have been extended by 40 days.
PO 00000
Frm 00015
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
34863
For a complete description of the
events in this proceeding, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.10
A list of topics included in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included as an appendix to this notice.
The Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is a public document and is on file
electronically via Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (ACCESS).
ACCESS is available to registered users
at https://access.trade.gov and in the
Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of
the main Commerce building. In
addition, a complete version of the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can
be accessed directly on the internet at
https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The
signed Preliminary Decision
Memorandum and the electronic
version of the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum are identical in content.
Scope of the Order
The products covered by the order are
HWR pipes and tubes from Turkey. The
subject merchandise is currently
classifiable under Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
subheading 7306.61.1000. Subject
merchandise may also enter under
HTSUS 7306.61.3000. While the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the
written description of the scope of this
proceeding is dispositive. A full
description of the scope of the order is
contained in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Preliminary Determination of No
Shipments
We preliminarily determine that Cinar
Boru made no shipments of subject
merchandise during the POR. Moreover,
consistent with our practice, we are not
preliminarily rescinding the review
with respect to Cinar Boru, but, rather,
we will complete the review with
respect to the company and issue
appropriate instructions to CBP based
on the final results of this review.11 For
10 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
the Preliminary Results in the Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review: Heavy Walled Rectangular
Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from the
Republic of Turkey; 2017–2018’’ dated concurrently
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
11 See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp
from Thailand; Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of
Review, Preliminary Determination of No
Shipments; 2012–2013, 79 FR 15951, 15952 (March
24, 2014), unchanged in Certain Frozen Warmwater
Shrimp from Thailand: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Final
Determination of No Shipments, and Partial
E:\FR\FM\19JYN1.SGM
Continued
19JYN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 139 (Friday, July 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34862-34863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15361]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Applications for Corporation for Travel Promotion Board of
Directors
AGENCY: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for travel and tourism industry
leaders to apply for membership on the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for Travel Promotion.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is currently seeking applications
from travel and tourism leaders from specific industries for membership
on the Board of Directors (Board) of the Corporation for Travel
Promotion (doing business as Brand USA). The purpose of the Board is to
guide the Corporation for Travel Promotion on matters relating to the
promotion of the United States as a travel destination and
communication of travel facilitation issues, among other tasks.
DATES: All applications must be received by the National Travel and
Tourism Office by close of business on Friday, August 16, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please submit application information by email to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Heizer, National Travel and
Tourism Office, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, MS10003, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-0140; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (TPA) was
signed into law on March 4, 2010, and was amended in July 2010 and
December 2014. The TPA established the Corporation for Travel Promotion
(the Corporation), as a non-profit corporation charged with the
development and execution of a plan to (A) provide useful information
to those interested in traveling to the United States; (B) identify and
address perceptions regarding U.S. entry policies; (C) maximize
economic and diplomatic benefits of travel to the United States through
the use of various promotional tools; (D) ensure that international
travel benefits all States and the District of Columbia, and (E)
identify opportunities to promote tourism to rural and urban areas
equally, including areas not traditionally visited by international
travelers.
The Corporation is governed by a Board of Directors, consisting of
11 members with knowledge of international travel promotion or
marketing, broadly representing various regions of the United States.
The TPA directs the Secretary of Commerce (after consultation with the
Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State) to appoint
the Board of Directors for the Corporation.
At this time, the Department will be selecting four individuals
with the appropriate expertise and experience from specific sectors of
the travel and tourism industry to serve on the Board as follows:
(A) 1 shall have appropriate expertise and experience in the
attractions or recreation sector;
(B) 1 shall have appropriate expertise and experience in the
immigration policy/law sector;
(C) 1 shall have appropriate expertise and experience in the land
or sea passenger transportation sector; and
(D) 1 shall have appropriate expertise and experience in the
passenger air sector.
To be eligible for Board membership, individuals must have
international travel and tourism marketing experience, be a current or
former chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or chief
marketing officer or have held an equivalent management position.
Additional consideration will be given to individuals who have
experience working in U.S. multinational entities with marketing
budgets, and/or who are audit committee financial experts as defined by
the Securities and Exchange Commission (in accordance with 15 U.S.C.
7265). Individuals must be U.S. citizens, and in addition, cannot be
federally registered lobbyists or registered as a foreign agent under
the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
Those selected for the Board must be able to meet the time and
effort commitments of the Board.
Board members serve at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce
(who may remove any member of the Board for good cause). The terms of
office of each member of the Board appointed by the Secretary shall be
three (3) years. Board members can serve a maximum of two consecutive
full three-year terms. Board members are not considered Federal
government employees by virtue of their service as a member of the
Board and will receive no compensation from the Federal government for
their participation in Board activities. Members participating in Board
meetings and events may be paid actual travel expenses and per diem by
the Corporation when away from their usual places of residence.
Individuals who want to be considered for appointment to the Board
should submit the following information by the Friday, August 16, 2019
deadline to the address listed in the ADDRESSES section above:
1. Name, title, and personal resume of the individual requesting
consideration, including address, email address and phone number.
2. A brief statement of why the person should be considered for
appointment to the Board. This statement should also address the
individual's relevant international travel and tourism marketing
experience and audit committee financial expertise, if any, and
indicate clearly the sector or sectors enumerated above in which the
individual has the requisite expertise and experience. Individuals who
have the requisite expertise and experience in more than one sector can
be appointed for only one of those sectors. Appointments of members to
the Board will be made by the Secretary of Commerce.
3. An affirmative statement that the applicant is a U.S. citizen,
is not a federally-registered lobbyist and further, is not required to
register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
of 1938, as amended.
4. If applicable, a statement acknowledging that the applicant is
an audit committee financial expert as defined by the Securities and
Exchange
[[Page 34863]]
Commission (in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 7265).
Dated: July 12, 2019.
Julie Heizer,
Deputy Director, National Travel and Tourism Office.
[FR Doc. 2019-15361 Filed 7-18-19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DR-P
