Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the Federative Republic of Brazil

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool

and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the

Federative Republic of Brazil

November 29, 1995.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1996.

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

[[Page 62406]]

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

The import restraint limits for textile products, produced or

manufactured in Brazil 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.

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: Pursuant to section 204 of the Agricultural

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

Agreements Act and the Uruguay 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, wool and man-made fiber textile products in the following

categories, produced or manufactured in Brazil and exported during

the twelve-month period which began on January 1, 1996 and extends

through December 31, 1996, in excess of the following limits:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Category Twelve-month restraint limit

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Aggregate Limit

200-239, 300-369, 400-469 and 600-670, 434,664,537 square meters

as a group. equivalent.

Sublevels in the aggregate

218.................................... 5,350,826 square meters.

219.................................... 19,535,266 square meters.

225.................................... 9,363,945 square meters.

300/301................................ 7,256,950 kilograms.

313.................................... 44,937,433 square meters.

314.................................... 7,357,387 square meters.

315.................................... 22,072,160 square meters.

317/326................................ 20,065,598 square meters.

334/335................................ 143,987 dozen.

336.................................... 79,994 dozen.

338/339/638/639........................ 1,439,896 dozen.

342/642................................ 423,969 dozen.

347/348................................ 1,039,925 dozen.

350.................................... 161,335 dozen.

361.................................... 1,087,921 numbers.

363.................................... 23,218,856 numbers.

369-D\1\............................... 518,588 kilograms.

410/624................................ 10,701,653 square meters of

which not more than 2,627,483

square meters shall be in

Category 410.

433.................................... 18,239 dozen.

445/446................................ 71,451 dozen.

604.................................... 507,986 kilograms of which not

more than 388,248 kilograms

shall be in Category 604-A\2\.

607.................................... 4,717,019 kilograms.

647/648................................ 479,966 dozen.

669-P\3\............................... 1,728,629 kilograms.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

\1\Category 369-D: only HTS numbers 6302.60.0010, 6302.91.0005 and

6302.91.0045.

\2\Category 604-A: only HTS number 5509.32.0000.

\3\Category 669-P: only HTS numbers 6305.31.0010, 6305.31.0020 and

6305.39.0000.

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 1996 levels set

forth in this directive.

The conversion factor for Categories 338/339/638/639 is 10

square meters per dozen.

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. 95-29597 Filed 12-5-95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510-DR-F