Textile and Apparel Categories With the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States; Changes to the 1996 Correlation

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Textile and Apparel Categories With the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States; Changes to the 1996 Correlation

July 9, 1996.

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

ACTION: Changes to the 1996 Correlation

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lori E. Mennitt, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of

Commerce, (202) 482-3400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Correlation: Textile and Apparel Categories based on the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (1996) presents the

harmonized tariff numbers under each of the cotton, wool, man-made

fiber, silk blend and other vegetable fiber categoriees used by the

United States in monitoring imports of these textile products and in

the administration of the textile program. The Correlation should be

amended to include the following HTS numbers for Categories 218 and 847

inadvertently omitted from the Correlation at the time of publication.

Also, there are changes in Category 362 due to statistical breakouts

effective on July 1, 1996.

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Changes to the 1996 Correlation

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Add 5209.49.0090 (218)--Woven fabrics containing 85 percent or more by weight of cotton, weighing more than 200

g/m2, or yarns of different colors, other fabrics not elsewhere specified or included.

Add 5211.49.0090 (218)--Woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85 percent by weight of cotton, mixed

mainly or solely with man-made fibers, weighing more than 200 g/m2, of yarns of different colors, other fabrics

not elsewhere specified or included.

Add 6203.49.8045 (847)--Men's or boys' trousers and breeches, not knit, of other textile materials of silk

blends or non-cotton vegetable fibers.

Delete 6307.90.8990 (362).

Add 6307.90.8995 (362)--Shells for quilts, eiderdowns, comforters, and similar articles, containing other than

85 percent or more by weight of cotton.

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Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc.96-17834 Filed 7-12-96; 8:45 am]

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