Amendment of Coverage of Import Limit and Visa and Certification Requirements for a Certain Part-Category Produced or Manufactured in Various Countries

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Amendment of Coverage of Import Limit and Visa and Certification

Requirements for a Certain Part-Category Produced or Manufactured in

Various Countries

July 9, 1999.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs amending

coverage for an import limit and visa and certification requirements.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 1999.

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:

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.

To facilitate implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on

Textiles and Clothing, bilateral textile and textile product

agreements, and export visa arrangements, all of which refer to the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), directives implementing these

agreements are being amended, replacing an HTS classification number in

part-Category 369-R, for products which are entered into the United

States for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on

and after July 7, 1999 regardless of date of export.

In the letter published below, the Chairman of CITA directs the

Commissioner of Customs to amend monitoring, import control, and visa

and certification requirements with respect to part-Category 369-R.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

July 9, 1999.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

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

all monitoring and import control directives, and all visa and

certification requirement directives, issued to you by the Chairman,

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, which

include cotton and man-made fiber textile products in part-Category

369-R, produced or manufactured in various countries and imported

into the United States on and after July 7, 1999, regardless of the

date of export.

Effective on July 7, 1999, you are directed to make the change

shown below in the aforementioned directives for products entered in

the United States for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for

consumption on and after July 7, 1999 for part-Category 369-R,

regardless of the date of export:

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Category HTS change

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369-R............................. Delete: 6307.10.2020

................................ Replace: 6307.10.1020

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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. 99-17921 Filed 7-13-99; 8:45 am]

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