Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the Arab Republic of Egypt

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool

and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in the

Arab Republic of Egypt

October 21, 1999.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy Unger, 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, 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 limits for textile products, produced or

manufactured in Egypt and exported during the period January 1, 2000

through December 31, 2000 are based on limits 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 2000 limits.

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 63 FR 71096, published on December 23, 1998).

Information regarding the 2000 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 21, 1999.

Commissioner of Customs,

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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, 2000, 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, 2000 and extending through December 31,

2000, in excess of the following levels of restraint:

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Category Twelve-month restraint limit

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Fabric Group

218-220, 224-227, 313-O \1\, 314-O \2\, 130,768,460 square meters.

315-O \3\, 317-O \4\ and 326-O \5\, as

a group.

Sublevels within Fabric Group

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

219....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

220....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

224....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

225....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

226....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

227....................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

313-O..................................... 56,496,844 square meters.

314-O..................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

315-O..................................... 36,129,848 square meters.

317-O..................................... 30,766,900 square meters.

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

Levels not in a group

300/301................................... 12,157,140 kilograms of

which not more than

3,812,906 kilograms shall

be in Category 301.

338/339................................... 3,427,555 dozen.

340/640................................... 1,419,988 dozen.

369-S \6\................................. 1,798,146 kilograms.

448....................................... 19,762 dozen.

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\1\ Category 313-O: all HTS numbers except 5208.52.3035, 5208.52.4035

and 5209.51.6032.

\2\ Category 314-O: all HTS numbers except 5209.51.6015.

\3\ Category 315-O: all HTS numbers except 5208.52.4055.

\4\ Category 317-O: all HTS numbers except 5208.59.2085.

\5\ Category 326-O: all HTS numbers except 5208.59.2015, 5209.59.0015

and 5211.59.0015.

\6\ Category 369-S: only HTS number 6307.10.2005.

The limits set forth above are 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 1999 shall be

charged to the applicable category limits for that year (see

directive dated October 1, 1998) to the extent of any unfilled

balances. In the event the limits established for that period have

been exhausted by previous entries, such products shall be charged

to the limits 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 these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception of 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. 99-28070 Filed 10-26-99; 8:45 am]

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