Amendment of Export Visa Requirements for Certain Man-Made Fiber Textiles and Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the Philippines

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Amendment of Export Visa Requirements for Certain Man-Made Fiber

Textiles and Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the

Philippines

September 14, 1995.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs amending

visa requirements.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 21, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Heinzen, 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).

A notice published in the Federal Register on August 15, 1995

announces that, effective on September 1, 1995, for goods produced or

manufactured in the Philippines and exported from the Philippines on

and after September 1, 1995, part-category visas will no longer be

required for certain part-categories, including Categories 669-P and

669-O.

The purpose of this notice is to announce that the part-category

visa requirement shall continue for Categories 669-P and 669-O.

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

Commissioner of Customs to continue to require a part-category visa for

goods in Categories 669-P and 669-O, produced or manufactured in the

Philippines and entered into the United States for consumption and

withdrawn from warehouse for consumption.

See 52 FR 11308, published on April 8, 1987.

D. Michael Hutchinson,

Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

September 14, 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 August 9, 1995, by the Chairman,

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements. That

directive directs you to amend export visa requirements for certain

cotton, wool and man-made fiber textiles and textile products,

produced or manufactured in the Philippines.

Effective on September 21, 1995, you are directed to continue to

require a part-category visa for goods in Categories 669-P\1\ and

669-O\2\, produced or manufactured in the Philippines and entered

into the United States for consumption and withdrawn from warehouse

for consumption.

\1\Category 669-P: only HTS numbers 6305.31.0010, 6305.31.0020

and 6305.39.0000.

\2\Category 669-O: all HTS numbers except 6305.31.0010,

6305.31.0020 and 6305.39.0000 (Category 669-P).

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Shipments entered or withdrawn from warehouse according to this

directive which are not accompanied by an appropriate export visa

shall be denied entry and a new visa must be obtained.

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has

determined that this action falls within the foreign affairs

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

Sincerely,

D. Michael Hutchinson,

Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements.

[FR Doc. 95-23283 Filed 9-19-95; 8:45 am]

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