Establishment of an Import Limit for Certain Wool Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the Philippines

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Establishment of an Import Limit for Certain Wool Textile

Products Produced or Manufactured in the Philippines

August 22, 1995.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

a limit.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 28, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Heinzen, International Trade

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

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

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

of each Customs port or call (202) 927-6713. For information on

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

on categories on which consultations have been requested, call (202)

482-3740.

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).

A notice published in the Federal Register on June 23, 1995 (60 FR

32657) announces that if no solution is agreed upon in consultations

between the Governments of the United States and the Philippines on

Category 444, the Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements may establish a limit at a level of not less than 74,874

dozen for the twelve-month period beginning on May 31, 1995 and

extending through May 30, 1996.

Inasmuch as no agreement was reached during the consultation period

on a mutually satisfactory solution, the United States Government has

decided to control imports in Category 444 for the prorated period

beginning on May 31, 1995 and extending through December 31, 1995 at a

level of 43,983 numbers. Category 444 shall remain subject to the Group

II limit.

This action is taken in accordance with the Uruguay Round Agreement

on Textiles and Clothing and the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

The United States remains committed to finding a solution

concerning Category 444. Should such a solution be reached in

consultations with the Government of the Philippines, further notice

will be published in the Federal Register.

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 59 FR 65531, published on December 20, 1994). Also see

60 FR 17334, published on April 5, 1995.

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

August 22, 1995.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

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

the directive issued to you on March 30, 1995, by the Chairman,

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements. That

directive concerns imports of certain cotton, wool and man-made

fiber textiles and textile products and silk blend and other

vegetable fiber apparel, produced or manufactured in the Philippines

and exported during the period beginning on January 1, 1995 and

extending through December 31, 1995.

Effective on August 28, 1995, you are directed, pursuant to the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act and the Uruguay Round Agreement on

Textiles and Clothing, to establish a limit at 43,983 numbers \1\

for textile products in Category 444, produced or manufactured in

the Philippines and exported during the period beginning on May 31,

1995 and extending through December 31, 1995.

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

exported after May 30, 1995.

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Textile products in Category 444 shall remain subject to the

Group II limit established in the directive dated March 30, 1995 for

the period January 1, 1995 through December 31, 1995.

Textile products in Category 444 which have been exported to the

United States prior to May 31, 1995 shall not be subject to this

directive.

Import charges will be provided at a later date.

In carrying out the above directions, the Commissioner of

Customs should construe entry into the United States for consumption

to include entry for consumption into the Commonwealth of Puerto

Rico.

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has

determined that this action falls within the foreign affairs

exception of 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. 95-21205 Filed 8-24-95; 8:45 am]

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