Announcement of an Import Restraint Limit for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Fiji

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcement of an Import Restraint Limit for Certain Cotton and

Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Fiji

October 2, 1998.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

a limit.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ross Arnold, International Trade

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

Commerce, (202) 482-4212. For information on the quota status of this

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

of each Customs port, call (202) 927-5850, or refer to the U.S. Customs

website at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov. For information on embargoes

and quota re-openings, call (202) 482-3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as

amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as

amended.

The import restraint limit for textile products, produced or

manufactured in Fiji and exported during the period January 1, 1999

through December 31, 1999 is based on a limit notified to the Textiles

Monitoring Body pursuant to 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 limit for the 1999 period. The

sublimit for Categories 338-S/339-S/638-S/639-S is being reduced for

carryforward applied to the 1998 sublimit.

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 62 FR 66057, published on December 17, 1997).

Information regarding the 1999

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CORRELATION will be published in the Federal Register at a later date.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

October 2, 1998.

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); Executive Order 11651 of

March 3, 1972, as amended; and the Uruguay Round Agreement on

Textiles and Clothing (ATC), you are directed to prohibit, effective

on January 1, 1999, entry into the United States for consumption and

withdrawal from warehouse for consumption of cotton and man-made

fiber textile products in Categories 338/339/638/639, produced or

manufactured in Fiji and exported during the twelve-month period

beginning on January 1, 1999 and extending through December 31,

1999, in excess of 1,401,837 dozen of which not more than 1,104,203

dozen shall be in Categories 338-S/339-S/638-S/639-S \1\.

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\1\ Category 338-S: only HTS numbers 6103.22.0050, 6105.10.0010,

6105.10.0030, 6105.90.8010, 6109.10.0027, 6110.20.1025,

6110.20.2040, 6110.20.2065, 6110.90.9068, 6112.11.0030 and

6114.20.0005; Category 339-S: only HTS numbers 6104.22.0060,

6104.29.2049, 6106.10.0010, 6106.10.0030, 6106.90.2510,

6106.90.3010, 6109.10.0070, 6110.20.1030, 6110.20.2045,

6110.20.2075, 6110.90.9070, 6112.11.0040, 6114.20.0010 and

6117.90.9020; Category 638-S: all HTS numbers except 6109.90.1007,

6109.90.1009, 6109.90.1013 and 6109.90.1025; Category 639-S: all HTS

numbers except 6109.90.1050, 6109.90.1060, 6109.90.1065 and

6109.90.1070.

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The limit set forth above is subject to adjustment pursuant to

the provisions of the ATC and administrative arrangements notified

to the Textiles Monitoring Body.

Products in the above categories exported during 1998 shall be

charged to the applicable category limit for that year (see

directive dated November 12, 1997) to the extent of any unfilled

balance. In the event the limit established for that period has been

exhausted by previous entries, such products shall be charged to the

limit set forth in this directive.

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 this action falls within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc. 98-27197 Filed 10-8-98; 8:45 am]

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