Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Man- Made Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in India

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Man-

Made Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Textile

Products Produced or Manufactured in India

November 29, 1995.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1996.

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 these

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

of each Customs port or call (202) 927-6705. 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).

The import restraint limits for textile products, produced or

manufactured in India and exported during the period January 1, 1996

through December 31, 1996 are based on limits notified to the Textiles

Monitoring Body pursuant to the Uruguay Round Agreements Act and the

Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC).

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

Commissioner of Customs to establish the 1996 limits. The limit for

Categories 340/640 has been reduced for carryforward applied in 1995.

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).

Information regarding the 1996 CORRELATION will be published in the

Federal Register at a later date.

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 Uruguay Round Agreements Act and the ATC, but are designed to

assist only in the implementation of certain of their provisions.

D. Michael Hutchinson,

Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

November 29, 1995.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

Dear Commissioner: Under the terms of section 204 of the

Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854), the Uruguay

Round Agreements Act and the Uruguay

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Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC); and in accordance with

the provisions of Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as

amended, you are directed to prohibit, effective on January 1, 1996,

entry into the United States for consumption and withdrawal from

warehouse for consumption of cotton, man-made fiber, silk blend and

other vegetable fiber textiles and textile products in the following

categories, produced or manufactured in India and exported during

the twelve-month period beginning on January 1, 1996 and extending

through December 31, 1996, in excess of the following levels of

restraint:

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Category Twelve-month restraint limit

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Levels in Group I

218.................................... 12,013,542 square meters.

219.................................... 56,990,137 square meters.

313.................................... 32,143,792 square meters.

314.................................... 6,784,540 square meters.

315.................................... 11,395,309 square meters.

317.................................... 36,133,448 square meters.

326.................................... 8,212,147 square meters.

334/634................................ 121,269 dozen.

335/635................................ 539,888 dozen.

336/636................................ 747,677 dozen.

338/339................................ 3,558,597 dozen.

340/640................................ 1,658,861 dozen.

341.................................... 3,819,560 dozen of which not

more than 2,291,735 dozen

shall be in Category 341-Y\1\.

342/642................................ 1,093,273 dozen.

345.................................... 160,606 dozen.

347/348................................ 516,720 dozen.

351/651................................ 231,097 dozen.

363.................................... 37,542,958 numbers.

369-D\2\............................... 1,131,194 kilograms.

369-S\3\............................... 617,015 kilograms.

641.................................... 1,272,851 dozen.

647/648................................ 739,132 dozen.

Group II

200, 201, 220-229, 237, 239, 300, 301, 98,195,449 square meters

330-333, 349, 350, 352, 359-362, 600- equivalent.

607, 611-629, 630-633, 638, 639, 643-

646, 649, 650, 652, 659, 665-O\4\,

666, 669, 670, and 831-859, as a group.

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\1\Category 341-Y: only HTS numbers 6204.22.3060, 6206.30.3010,

6206.30.3030 and 6211.42.0054.

\2\Category 369-D: only HTS numbers 6302.60.0010, 6302.91.0005 and

6302.91.0045.

\3\Category 369-S: only HTS number 6307.10.2005.

\4\Category 665-O: all HTS numbers except 5702.10.9030, 5702.42.2020,

5702.92.0010 and 5703.20.1000 (rugs).

Imports charged to these category limits for the period January

1, 1995 through December 31, 1995 shall be charged against those

levels of restraint to the extent of any unfilled balances. In the

event the limits established for that period have been exhausted by

previous entries, such goods shall be subject to the levels set

forth in this directive.

The limits set forth above are subject to adjustment in the

future pursuant to the provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements

Act, the ATC and any administrative arrangements notified to the

Textiles Monitoring Body.

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 these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception of 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. 95-29591 Filed 12-5-95; 8:45 am]

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