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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and
Reductions; Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional
Comments Through Its Website
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, during the period June 12 to
June 22, 2020, on petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions that the
Commission places in Category VI in the
preliminary report that it sends to the
House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance
on June 9, 2020.
AGENCY:
The Commission will 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 must submit its
preliminary report on the petitions for
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duty suspensions and reductions that
have been filed with it to the House
Committee on Ways and Means and the
Senate Committee on Finance on June 9,
2020.
In that report, the Commission must
categorize each petition as either (a) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with or without modification
(Category I, II, III, or IV petitions), (b) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or that
was not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petitions), or (c) a petition
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 tenday period beginning on June 12, 2020,
at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such
comments must be submitted to the
Commission electronically through the
Commission website https://
mtbps.usitc.gov. The Commission will
not accept comments filed in paper form
or in any other form or format.
DATES:
June 12, 2020, 8:45 a.m. EST: Opening
date and time for submission of
additional comments on Category VI
petitions.
June 22, 2020, 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. You may view the public file for
this proceeding on the Commission’s
Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Petition
System (MTBPS) at https://
mtbps.usitc.gov.
For
general inquiries, contact Jennifer
Rohrbach at mtbinfo@usitc.gov. For
filing inquiries, contact the Office of the
Secretary, Docket Services, 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). You may
obtain general information concerning
the Commission at https://
www.usitc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of
2016 (the Act), 19 U.S.C. 1332 note,
established a process for the submission
and consideration of requests for
temporary duty suspensions and
reductions. As required by the Act, the
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Commission initiated the process by
publishing a notice in the Federal
Register permitting members of the
public to submit petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions to the
Commission during a 60-day period
beginning October 11, 2019 (84 FR
54924). After the period for filing
petitions closed on December 10, 2020,
the Commission published, as required
by the Act, a notice in the Federal
Register announcing publication on its
website of the petitions for duty
suspensions and reductions that were
submitted to the Commission and not
withdrawn (85 FR 1327). The notice
invited members of the public to submit
comments on these petitions during a
45-day period, which ended February
24, 2020.
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 must be submitted to
the Committees by June 9, 2020. In its
preliminary report to the Committees,
the Commission must evaluate each
petition to determine whether it meets
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
the U.S. Department of Commerce
(Commerce), issued April 9, 2020. In
that 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. Based on
consultations with U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary
also recommended in that report
whether any technical changes were
necessary to make each petition’s article
description administrable.
In its preliminary report, the
Commission must place each petition
into one of six categories. Specifically,
the Commission must categorize each
petition as: (1) A petition that meets the
requirements of the Act without
modification (Category I petition); (2) a
petition that meets the requirements of
the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III, or IV petitions); (3) a
petition that does not contain the
information required by the Act or was
not filed by a likely beneficiary
(Category V petition); or (4) a petition
that the Commission does not
recommend for inclusion in a
miscellaneous tariff bill (Category VI
petition).
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The Commission has decided to reopen its online portal for the limited
purpose of allowing members of the
public to submit comments on petitions
that the Commission has categorized as
Category VI petitions in its preliminary
report. The Commission will re-open
the portal for this limited purpose on
June 12, 2020, at 8:45 a.m. and close the
portal on June 22, 2020, at 5:15 p.m. As
discussed below, the Commission will
accept only information from the public
that relates to the Commission’s
decision to place a petition into
Category VI.
Content of Comments: The public will
be able to comment on the
administrability of the article
descriptions in a petition, the existence
of domestic producer objections to a
petition, and other issues affecting the
placement of a petition in Category VI.
In particular, the Commission seeks
input that would clarify the scope of a
proposed article description in a
Category VI petition, 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
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTS). Similarly, the
Commission seeks information that
could clarify technical criteria,
distinguish the intended article in a
petition from other goods in the same
rate line, or narrow the scope of an
article description to mitigate domestic
producer objections as contemplated by
the Act’s description of Category IV. The
Commission will not consider
comments that seek to broaden or
materially amend the nature of the
goods covered in the original article
description.
Procedures for Filing a Comment
Who may file. Any member of the
public may file comments, 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
preliminary report that the Commission
submits to the Committees on June 9,
2020. 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 must be
filed electronically via the
Commission’s designated secure web
portal and in the format designated by
the Commission in that portal. You may
access the portal through the
Commission’s website at https://
mtbps.usitc.gov. The portal contains a
series of prompts and links that will
assist persons in providing the required
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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 of Practice and
Procedure, as further explained in the
Commission’s 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.
Time for filing. To be considered,
comments must be filed no earlier than
June 12, 2020, at 8:45 a.m. and no later
than the close of business (5:15 p.m.
EST) on June 22, 2020. The Commission
will not accept comments filed before or
after these dates and times.
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 22,
2020. 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,
5 U.S.C. 552, (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 what they regard as confidential
business information, or 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 website. 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 Rule
201.6(a) of its Rules of Practice and
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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 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 Act 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: April 20, 2020.
William Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information
Officer.
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[Investigation No. 701–TA–501 (Review)]
Chlorinated Isocyanurates From China
Determination
On the basis of the record 1 developed
in the subject five-year review, the
United States International Trade
Commission (‘‘Commission’’)
determines, pursuant to the Tariff Act of
1930 (‘‘the Act’’), that revocation of the
countervailing duty order on
chlorinated isocyanurates from China
would be likely to lead to continuation
or recurrence of material injury to an
1 The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19
CFR 207.2(f)).
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Petitions for Duty Suspensions and Reductions; Notice That the
Commission Will Accept Additional Comments Through Its Website 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, during the period June 12 to June 22, 2020, on petitions
for duty suspensions and reductions that the Commission places in
Category VI in the preliminary report that it sends to the House
Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance on June
9, 2020.
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SUMMARY: The Commission will 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 must submit its
preliminary report on the petitions for duty suspensions and reductions
that have been filed with it to the House Committee on Ways and Means
and the Senate Committee on Finance on June 9, 2020.
In that report, the Commission must categorize each petition as
either (a) a petition that meets the requirements of the Act with or
without modification (Category I, II, III, or IV petitions), (b) a
petition that does not contain the information required by the Act or
that was not filed by a likely beneficiary (Category V petitions), or
(c) a petition 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, 2020, at 8:45 a.m. As provided below, all such
comments must be submitted to the Commission electronically through the
Commission website https://mtbps.usitc.gov. The Commission will not
accept comments filed in paper form or in any other form or format.
DATES:
June 12, 2020, 8:45 a.m. EST: Opening date and time for submission
of additional comments on Category VI petitions.
June 22, 2020, 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. You may view the public file for this proceeding on the
Commission's Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Petition System (MTBPS) at
https://mtbps.usitc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general inquiries, contact
Jennifer Rohrbach at [email protected]. For filing inquiries, contact
the Office of the Secretary, Docket Services, U.S. International Trade
Commission, telephone (202) 205-3238. The media should contact Peg
O'Laughlin, Public Affairs Officer (202-205-1819 or
[email protected]). You may obtain general information
concerning the Commission at https://www.usitc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016
(the Act), 19 U.S.C. 1332 note, established a process for the
submission and consideration of requests for temporary duty suspensions
and reductions. As required by the Act, the Commission initiated the
process by publishing a notice in the Federal Register permitting
members of the public to submit petitions for duty suspensions and
reductions to the Commission during a 60-day period beginning October
11, 2019 (84 FR 54924). After the period for filing petitions closed on
December 10, 2020, the Commission published, as required by the Act, a
notice in the Federal Register announcing publication on its website of
the petitions for duty suspensions and reductions that were submitted
to the Commission and not withdrawn (85 FR 1327). The notice invited
members of the public to submit comments on these petitions during a
45-day period, which ended February 24, 2020.
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 must be submitted to the Committees
by June 9, 2020. In its preliminary report to the Committees, the
Commission must evaluate each petition to determine whether it meets
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 the U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce), issued April 9, 2020. In that 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. Based on consultations with U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP), the Secretary also recommended in that report whether
any technical changes were necessary to make each petition's article
description administrable.
In its preliminary report, the Commission must place each petition
into one of six categories. Specifically, the Commission must
categorize each petition as: (1) A petition that meets the requirements
of the Act without modification (Category I petition); (2) a petition
that meets the requirements of the Act with certain modifications
(Category II, III, or IV petitions); (3) a petition that does not
contain the information required by the Act or was not filed by a
likely beneficiary (Category V petition); or (4) a petition that the
Commission does not recommend for inclusion in a miscellaneous tariff
bill (Category VI petition).
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The Commission has decided to re-open its online portal for the
limited purpose of allowing members of the public to submit comments on
petitions that the Commission has categorized as Category VI petitions
in its preliminary report. The Commission will re-open the portal for
this limited purpose on June 12, 2020, at 8:45 a.m. and close the
portal on June 22, 2020, at 5:15 p.m. As discussed below, the
Commission will accept only information from the public that relates to
the Commission's decision to place a petition into Category VI.
Content of Comments: The public will be able to comment on the
administrability of the article descriptions in a petition, the
existence of domestic producer objections to a petition, and other
issues affecting the placement of a petition in Category VI. In
particular, the Commission seeks input that would clarify the scope of
a proposed article description in a Category VI petition, 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 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTS). Similarly, the Commission seeks information that could clarify
technical criteria, distinguish the intended article in a petition from
other goods in the same rate line, or narrow the scope of an article
description to mitigate domestic producer objections as contemplated by
the Act's description of Category IV. The Commission will not consider
comments that seek to broaden or materially amend the nature of the
goods covered in the original article description.
Procedures for Filing a Comment
Who may file. Any member of the public may file comments, 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 preliminary report that the Commission submits
to the Committees on June 9, 2020. 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 must be filed electronically via the
Commission's designated secure web portal and in the format designated
by the Commission in that portal. You may access the portal through the
Commission's website at https://mtbps.usitc.gov. 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 of Practice and
Procedure, as further explained in the Commission's 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.
Time for filing. To be considered, comments must be filed no
earlier than June 12, 2020, at 8:45 a.m. and no later than the close of
business (5:15 p.m. EST) on June 22, 2020. The Commission will not
accept comments filed before or after these dates and times.
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 22, 2020. 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, 5 U.S.C. 552, (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 what they
regard as confidential business information, or 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 website. 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 Rule 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 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 Act
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: April 20, 2020.
William Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-08673 Filed 4-23-20; 8:45 am]
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