Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Pakistan

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Announcement of Import Restraint Limits for Certain Cotton and

Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in Pakistan

December 1, 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: 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 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 Pakistan 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).

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

December 1, 1999.

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

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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 and man-made fiber textile products in the

following categories, produced or manufactured in Pakistan and

exported during the twelve-month period beginning on January 1, 2000

and extending through December 31, 2000, in excess of the following

limits:

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Category Twelve-month restraint limit

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Specific limits

219....................................... 9,940,726 square meters.

226/313................................... 140,701,964 square meters.

237....................................... 483,480 dozen.

239pt. \1\................................ 2,088,022 kilograms.

314....................................... 7,229,618 square meters.

315....................................... 91,783,066 square meters.

317/617................................... 38,850,753 square meters.

331/631................................... 2,960,960 dozen pairs.

334/634................................... 285,570 dozen.

335/635................................... 441,006 dozen.

336/636................................... 580,177 dozen.

338....................................... 5,635,894 dozen.

339....................................... 1,643,441 dozen.

340/640................................... 773,570 dozen of which not

more than 290,088 dozen

shall be in Categories 340-

D/640-D \2\.

341/641................................... 870,265 dozen.

342/642................................... 430,736 dozen.

347/348................................... 961,683 dozen.

351/651................................... 386,784 dozen.

352/652................................... 966,961 dozen.

359-C/659-C \3\........................... 1,740,531 kilograms.

360....................................... 6,213,382 numbers.

361....................................... 7,224,862 numbers.

363....................................... 52,422,074 numbers.

369-F/369-P \4\........................... 2,900,884 kilograms.

369-R \5\................................. 13,537,461 kilograms.

369-S \6\................................. 885,661 kilograms.

613/614................................... 27,860,280 square meters

615....................................... 29,638,590 square meters.

625/626/627/628/629....................... 91,155,065 square meters of

which not more than

45,577,534 square meters

shall be in Category 625;

not more than 45,577,534

square meters shall be in

Category 626; not more than

45,577,534 square meters

shall be in Category 627;

not more than 9,429,835

square meters shall be in

Category 628; and not more

than 45,577,534 square

meters shall be in Category

629.

638/639................................... 529,768 dozen.

647/648................................... 1,004,420 dozen.

666-P \7\................................. 858,484 kilograms.

666-S \8\................................. 4,544,917 kilograms.

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\1\ Category 239pt.: only HTS number 6209.20.5040 (diapers).

\2\ Category 340-D: only HTS numbers 6205.20.2015, 6205.20.2020,

6205.20.2025 and 6205.20.2030; Category 640-D: only HTS numbers

6205.30.2010, 6205.30.2020, 6205.30.2030, 6205.30.2040, 6205.90.3030

and 6205.90.4030.

\3\ Category 359-C: only HTS numbers 6103.42.2025, 6103.49.8034,

6104.62.1020, 6104.69.8010, 6114.20.0048, 6114.20.0052, 6203.42.2010,

6203.42.2090, 6204.62.2010, 6211.32.0010, 6211.32.0025 and

6211.42.0010; Category 659-C: only HTS numbers 6103.23.0055,

6103.43.2020, 6103.43.2025, 6103.49.2000, 6103.49.8038, 6104.63.1020,

6104.63.1030, 6104.69.1000, 6104.69.8014, 6114.30.3044, 6114.30.3054,

6203.43.2010, 6203.43.2090, 6203.49.1010, 6203.49.1090, 6204.63.1510,

6204.69.1010, 6210.10.9010, 6211.33.0010, 6211.33.0017 and

6211.43.0010.

\4\ Category 369-F: only HTS number 6302.91.0045; Category 369-P: only

HTS numbers 6302.60.0010 and 6302.91.0005.

\5\ Category 369-R: only HTS number 6307.10.1020.

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

\7\ Category 666-P: only HTS numbers 6302.22.1010, 6302.22.1020,

6302.22.2010, 6302.32.1010, 6302.32.1020, 6302.32.2010 and

6302.32.2020.

\8\ Category 666-S: only HTS numbers 6302.22.1030, 6302.22.1040,

6302.22.2020, 6302.32.1030, 6302.32.1040, 6302.32.2030 and

6302.32.2040.

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 November 3, 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. 99-31630 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]

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