Transshipment Charges for Certain Cotton Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Pakistan

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Transshipment Charges for Certain Cotton Textile Products

Produced or Manufactured in Pakistan

September 28, 1994.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs charging

illegal transshipments to a 1994 limit.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne Novak, International Trade

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

Commerce, (202) 482-4212.

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).

Based on investigations conducted by the Government of the United

States, CITA has determined that cotton sheets in Category 361 were

transshipped in circumvention of the U.S.-Pakistan Bilateral Cotton,

Man-Made Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber Textile Agreement,

effected by exchange of notes dated May 20, 1987 and June 11, 1987, as

amended and extended.

The United States Government requested consultations in writing

with the Government of Pakistan on April 19. The U.S. Government and

the Government of Pakistan met on June 16, 17 and 20 and August 1, 2,

10 and 11 in Washington to discuss the charges. The U.S. Government

provided the Government of Pakistan with clear evidence of

transshipment during these meeting. The U.S. Government informed the

Government of Pakistan of the charges to be made to the 1994 quota for

Category 361. Accordingly, in the letter published below, the Chairman

of CITA directs the Commissioner of Customs to charge 63,912 numbers to

the 1994 quota level for Category 361.

U.S. Customs continues to conduct other investigations of such

transshipments of textiles produced in Pakistan and exported to the

United States. The charges resulting from these investigations will be

published in the Federal Register.

The U.S. Government is taking this action pursuant a Memorandum of

Understanding dated January 21, 1994 between the Governments of the

United States and Pakistan and the current bilateral U.S.-Pakistan

bilateral textile agreement, and in conformity with Paragraph 16 of the

Protocol of Extension and Article 8 of the Arrangement Regarding

International Trade in Textiles, done at Geneva on December 20, 1973

and extended on December 14, 1977, December 22, 1981, July 31, 1986,

July 31, 1991, December 9, 1992 and December 9, 1993.

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

59 FR 5756, published on February 8, 1994.

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

September 28, 1994.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

Dear Commissioner: To facilitate implementation of the Bilateral

Cotton, Man-Made Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber Textile

Agreement, effected by exchange of notes dated May 20, 1987 and June

11, 1987, as amended and extended, and the Memorandum of

Understanding dated January 21, 1994 between the Governments of the

United States and Pakistan, I request that, effective on October 4,

1994, you charge 63,912 numbers to the limit established in the

directive dated February 1, 1994 for Category 361 for the period

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

1994.

This letter will be published in the Federal Register.

Sincerely,

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc. 94-24409 Filed 10-3-94; 8:45 am]

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