Establishment and Amendment of Import Limits and Amendment of a Restraint Period for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the Arab Republic of Egypt

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Establishment and Amendment of Import Limits and Amendment of a

Restraint Period for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products

Produced or Manufactured in the Arab Republic of Egypt

May 23, 1994.

AGENCY: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

and amending limits and amending a restraint period.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: May 31, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Aldrich, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of

Commerce, (202) 482-4212. For information on the quota status of these

limits, refer to the Quota Status Reports posted on the bulletin boards

of each Customs port or call (202) 927-5850. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call (202) 482-3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended;

section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C.

1854).

In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) dated April 29, 1994, the

Governments of the United States and the Arab Republic of Egypt agreed

to establish specific limits for Categories 338/339 and 340/640 for the

period beginning on January 1, 1994 and extending through December 31,

1995.

In the letter published below, the Chairman of CITA directs the

Commissioner of Customs to amend the current limit for Category 339 to

establish merged Categories 338/339 and amend the restraint period for

Categories 340/640 at an increased level.

A description of the textile and apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel Categories

with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (see Federal

Register notice 58 FR 62645, published on November 29, 1993). Also see

58 FR 55046, published on October 25, 1993; and 59 FR 8461, published

on February 22, 1994.

The letter to the Commissioner of Customs and the actions taken

pursuant to it are not designed to implement all of the provisions of

the MOU, but are designed to assist only in the implementation of

certain of its provisions.

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

May 23, 1994.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive amends, but does not cancel,

the directives issued to you on October 19, 1993 and February 15,

1994, by the Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements. Those directives concern imports of certain cotton, wool

and man-made fiber textile products, produced or manufactured in the

Arab Republic of Egypt and exported during the periods January 1,

1994 through December 31, 1994 and January 31, 1994 through December

31, 1994 (Categories 340/640).

Effective on May 31, 1994, you are directed, pursuant to a

Memorandum of Understanding dated April 29, 1994 between the

Governments of the United States and the Arab Republic of Egypt, to

establish a limit for merged Categories 338/339 for the period

January 1, 1994 through December 31, 1994 at a level of 2,100,000

dozen\1\. Charges already made to Category 339 shall be applied to

the newly established merged categories. The current restraint

period for Categories 340/640 shall be amended to begin on January

1, 1994 and extend through December 31, 1994 at an increased level

of 870,000 dozen\2\.

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\1\The limit has not been adjusted to account for any imports

exported after December 31, 1993.

\2\The limit has not been adjusted to account for any imports

exported after December 31, 1993.

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Textile products in Category 338 which have been exported to the

United States prior to January 1, 1994 shall not be subject to this

directive.

Textile products in Category 338 which have been released from

the custody of the U.S. Customs Service under the provisions of 19

U.S.C. 1448(b) or 1484(a)(1) prior to the effective date of this

directive shall not be denied entry under this directive.

You are directed to charge the following amounts to the

categories listed below for the 1994 restraint period. These charges

are for goods imported during the periods January 1, 1994 through

February 28, 1994 (Category 338) and January 1, 1994 through

February 22, 1994 (Categories 340 and 640). Additional charges for

Category 338 will be provided at a later date.

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Category Amount to be charged

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338................................ 67,382 dozen.

340................................ 59,735 dozen.

640................................ -0-

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The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has

determined that these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc. 94-12906 Filed 5-25-94; 8:45 am]

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