Amendment of Visa and Certification Requirements for Certain Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile Products Produced or Manufactured in El Salvador

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS

Amendment of Visa and Certification Requirements for Certain

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

El Salvador

April 8, 1999.

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

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs amending

visa and certification requirements.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 9, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Naomi Freeman, International Trade

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

Commerce, (202) 482-4212.

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 limit for textile products in Categories 342/642, produced or

manufactured in El Salvador, expired on March 28, 1999; therefore,

textile products in these categories, produced or manufactured in El

Salvador and exported on or after March 29, 1999, will no longer

require a visa and will no longer qualify for Special Access Program

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

the Commissioner of Customs to no longer require visas for these

products.

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). Also see

60 FR 2740, published on January 11, 1995.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

April 8, 1999.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20229.

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

the directive issued to you on January 6, 1995, as amended, by the

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

That directive directs you to prohibit entry of certain cotton and

man-made fiber textile products, produced or manufactured in El

Salvador which were not properly visaed by the Government of El

Salvador.

Effective on April 9, 1999, you are directed to amend the

current visa requirements for textiles and textile products in

Categories 342/642, produced or manufactured in El Salvador, to no

longer require visas for these products exported on or after March

29, 1999. In addition, products in these categories from El Salvador

will no longer qualify for Special Access Program treatment.

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. 99-9343 Filed 4-14-99; 8:45 am]

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