Amendment to Earlier Directives to Reflect Cancellation of Staged Entry Periods for Certain Cotton, Wool, Man-Made Fiber, Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Textile Products and Silk Apparel Products Produced or Manufactured in the People's Republic of China

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Amendment to Earlier Directives to Reflect Cancellation of Staged

Entry Periods for Certain Cotton, Wool, Man-Made Fiber, Silk Blend and

Other Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Textile Products and Silk Apparel

Products Produced or Manufactured in the People's Republic of China

June 26, 1996.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs amending

earlier directives with respect to textile products from China.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: June 26, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Aldrich, 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).

At the request of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

(USTR), directives from CITA to the Commissioner of Customs, issued on

May 15, 1996 (61 FR 24919) and June 12, 1996 (61 FR 30597) amended

previous directives from CITA to the Commissioner of Customs, issued

November 30, 1995 (60 FR 62413) and December 13, 1995 (60 FR 65292), to

facilitate the establishment of staged entry periods for certain goods

produced or manufactured in the People's Republic of China and exported

from China for the 30-day periods beginning on May 15, 1996 through

June 13, 1996 and June 14, 1996 through July 13, 1996.

Based on the measures that China has and will take in the future to

implement key elements of the 1995 Agreement on Enforcement of

Intellectual Property Rights and Market Access, USTR on June 21, 1996

requested the Commissioner of Customs to terminate the above-referenced

staged entry periods in accordance with section 301 of the Trade Act of

1974, as amended (see 61 FR 33147, published on June 26, 1996).

The action taken in the letter below will facilitate implementation

of USTR's directive to the Commissioner of Customs dated June 21, 1996.

D. Michael Hutchinson,

Acting Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

June 26, 1996.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

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

the directives issued to you on November 30, 1995 and December 13,

1995, by the Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements (CITA). Those directives concern imports of certain silk

apparel and certain cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk blend and

other vegetable fiber textile products, produced or manufactured in

the People's Republic of China and exported from China during the

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

through December 31, 1996.

The above directives are hereby amended to the extent necessary

to facilitate implementation of the directive of the Office of the

U.S. Trade Representative to the Commissioner of Customs dated June

21, 1996 regarding textile products from China, issued pursuant to

section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. For your

information, the above directives are amended to reflect that entry

of certain textile products, produced or manufactured in the

People's Republic of China, shall no longer be subject to limitation

for the 30-day

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periods beginning on May 15, 1996 through June 13, 1996 and June 14,

1996 through July 13, 1996.

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has

determined that these actions fall 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. 96-16934 Filed 7-2-96; 8:45 am]

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