Announcing the Establishment and Adjustment of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Egypt

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcing the Establishment and Adjustment of Import Restraint

Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products

Produced or Manufactured in Egypt

March 27, 1995.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

and adjusting limits for the new agreement year.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 5, 1995.

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

1854).

Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) dated September 12, 1993 and

April 29, 1994 between the Governments of the United States and the

Arab Republic of Egypt establish limits for the period beginning on

January 1, 1995 and extending through December 31, 1995. The limit for

Categories 340/640 has been reduced for carryforward used during the

previous agreement period.

These limits will be subject to revision pursuant to the Uruguay

Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) on the date that Egypt

becomes a member of the World Trade Organization.

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).

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 MOUs, but are designed to assist only in the

[[Page 17059]] implementation of certain of their provisions.

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

March 27, 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), and Memoranda of

Understanding (MOUs) dated September 12, 1993 and April 29, 1994

between the Governments of the United States and the Arab Republic

of Egypt; and in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order

11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended, you are directed to prohibit,

effective on April 5, 1995, 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 Egypt and exported during

the twelve-month period beginning on January 1, 1995 and extending

through December 31, 1995, in excess of the following levels of

restraint:

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Category Twelve-month restraint limit\1\

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Fabric Group

218-220, 224-227, 313-317 and 83,191,888 square meters.

326, as a group.

Sublevels in Fabric Group

218............................. 2,508,000 square meters.

219............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

220............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

224............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

225............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

226............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

227............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

313............................. 35,941,995 square meters.

314............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

315............................. 22,984,979 square meters.

317............................. 19,573,194 square meters.

326............................. 2,508,000 square meters.

Levels not in a group

300/301......................... 7,681,216 kilograms of which not

more than 2,409,100 kilograms shall

be in Category 301.

338/339......................... 2,226,000 dozen.

340/640......................... 870,000 dozen.

369-S\2\........................ 1,167,791 kilograms.

448............................. 18,342 dozen.

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\1\The limits have not been adjusted to account for any imports exported

after December 31, 1994.

\2\Category 369-S: only HTS number 6307.10.2005.

Imports charged to these category limits for the period January

1, 1994 through December 31, 1994 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.

Should Egypt become a member of the World Trade Organization

(WTO), the limits set forth above will be subject to adjustment in

the future pursuant to the provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreement

on Textiles and Clothing 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,

Rita D. Hayes,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc. 95-8196 Filed 4-3-95; 8:45 am]

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