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for consumption on or after March 13, 

2010 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination), but before the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty order with respect 

to drill pipe from the PRC, pursuant to 

section 706(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties may contact the Department’s 

Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the 

main Commerce Building, for copies of 

an updated list of countervailing duty 

orders currently in effect. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: February 25, 2011. 

Paul Piquado, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4796 Filed 3–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Request for Public Comments 

Concerning Regulatory Cooperation 

Activities That Would Help Eliminate or 

Reduce Unnecessary Regulatory 

Divergences in North America That 

Disrupt U.S. Exports 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Government 

recognizes that economic recovery and 

job creation will depend significantly on 

its ability to work collaboratively with 

key trading partners to promote free and 

open trade and investment. In our trade 

and investment relationships with 

Mexico and Canada, and within North 

America as a whole, the main 

impediments to greater trade and 

investment—and more open foreign 

markets for U.S. exporters and 

investors—are not tariffs or quotas, but 

rather unnecessary differences in 

product regulations that increase costs 

for producers and consumers in the 

United States, Canada, and Mexico. 

With this Notice, the Commerce 

Department, on behalf of the 

Administration, is seeking public input 

to help identify such divergences in 

North America, so that the U.S. 

Government can work cooperatively 

with Mexico and Canada to address 

them. 

President Obama explicitly linked 

trade to job creation when he 

announced the National Export 

Initiative in his 2010 State of the Union 

address, and set the ambitious goal of 

doubling U.S. exports in the next five 

years to support millions of jobs here at 

home. The President has focused 

particularly on efforts to remove 

unnecessary divergences in regulations 

with Canada and Mexico, our first and 

second largest export markets, 

respectively, and officials from the three 

countries have discussed strengthening 

regulatory cooperation to promote better 

regulation and facilitate trade, both 

bilaterally and trilaterally. President 

Obama met with President Felipe 

Caldero ́n of Mexico and Prime Minister 

Stephen Harper of Canada at the the 

North American Leaders’ Summit on 

August 10, 2009, in Guadalajara, 

Mexico. In the joint statement they 

issued at the end of that meeting they 

noted the progress that each of their 

governments had made in reducing 

unnecessary regulatory differences and 

they instructed their respective 

governments, ‘‘* * * to continue this 

work by building on the previous 

efforts, developing focused priorities 

and a specific timeline.’’ The United 

States Government is working with both 

Mexico and Canada to reduce 

unnecessary regulatory differences and 

to explore further regulatory 

cooperation activities aimed at reducing 

or eliminating such differences where 

they hinder trade and reduce 

competitiveness. In order to do so, the 

United States has established a HighLevel Regulatory Cooperation Council 

with Mexico and a Regulatory 

Cooperation Council with Canada. 

While these councils are bilateral, 

regulatory divergences exist that have 

consequences for firms in all three 

countries. Therefore, with this Notice, 

the Department of Commerce’s 

International Trade Administration 

(ITA), in support of the National Export 

Initiative (NEI) and pursuant to the 

Secretary of Commerce’s role as the 

chair of Trade Promotion Coordinating 

Committee, is requesting stakeholders to 

assist the Administration to identify 

opportunities for cooperation between 

or among the United States, Canada, and 

Mexico to reduce or eliminate 

regulatory divergences that disrupt trade 

in goods in the region, as well as any 

existing or emerging sectors that may 

benefit from regulatory coordination 

between these countries. Canada has 

already solicited similar input from its 

stakeholders, and Mexico has 

committed to do the same. 

DATES: The agency must receive 

comments on or before April 4, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submissions should be 

made via the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket ITA– 

2011–0003–0001. Please direct written 

submissions to Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 

6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. The public 

is strongly encouraged to file 

submissions electronically rather than 

by mail. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding this notice should 

be directed to regcoop@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In his 

January 2010 State of the Union address, 

President Obama announced the NEI to 

double U.S. exports over five years and 

support the creation of new jobs. As the 

President’s Export Promotion Cabinet 

has undertaken to implement the NEI, 

regional and sectoral plans are being 

developed to tailor the U.S. 

Government’s NEI efforts based on the 

realities of trade in certain regions. For 

example, the North American Free 

Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the 

world’s largest free trade area, linking 

444 million people and producing $17 

trillion in goods and services. Trilateral 

trade among Canada, Mexico, and the 

United States was $944.6 billion in 

2010. Despite this extensive trade 

among NAFTA partners, U.S. exporters 

indicate that they continue to encounter 

unnecessary divergences in regulatory 

measures in North America that disrupt 

trade. 

ITA has developed a Mature Markets 

Initiative (MMI) to evaluate how best to 

grow exports, create jobs, and support 

U.S. business growth in areas where 

trade is robust. Regulatory cooperation 

is a key component of the MMI. 

Accordingly, ITA has identified Canada 

and Mexico as mature markets and will 

seek ways to ease or eliminate 

regulatory differences that hinder 

competitiveness and negatively impact 

trade for U.S. firms, including new-tomarket and new-to-export businesses, 

particularly small- and medium-sized 

enterprises (SMEs). 

Trade may be impeded, for example, 

because countries apply different 

standards or technical requirements to 

address common environmental, health, 

safety, or other concerns with respect to 

certain products or product categories. 

In some instances, such divergences 

may be arbitrary and can lead to delays, 

additional costs, and burdens on U.S. 

suppliers, particularly SMEs, and, in 

some cases, can make it difficult or 

impossible for U.S. suppliers to 

penetrate foreign markets. These 

divergences can also increase regulatory 

burdens for governments and costs for 

consumers. In other cases, regulatory 


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measures, despite the burdens they 

impose, may be necessary in order to 

achieve legitimate objectives such as the 

protection of the environment, health, 

or safety. 

Regulatory cooperation with respect 

to regulatory measures can help reduce 

unjustified divergences and lower costs 

and burdens for businesses, especially 

SMEs, as well as for governments and 

consumers. For example, when 

regulators in different countries share 

data, studies, and other information on 

specific regulatory issues, they are more 

likely to reach similar conclusions, such 

as on the risks associated with a 

particular product, appropriate 

measures to mitigate those risks, and the 

costs and benefits associated with 

alternative regulatory approaches. This 

can lead regulators in these countries to 

adopt regulatory measures that are more 

aligned with each other, allow 

producers to develop economies of 

scale, reduce costs associated with 

complying with divergent regulatory 

measures, and pass on costs savings to 

consumers. It is critical for any 

alignment in regulatory approaches that 

results from cross-border cooperation 

between regulators in the United States 

and other countries, however, to be 

transparent and non-discriminatory, 

reduce unnecessary costs and burdens 

on producers and consumers, and 

continue to fulfill each country’s health, 

safety, environmental, and other 

legitimate policy objectives. 

Although cooperation on regulatory 

measures can lead to regulatory 

alignment, it can also result in other 

outcomes that help facilitate trade. For 

example, governments may elect to 

conclude mutual recognition 

agreements under which regulators in 

each country agree to allow products 

from the other country to be placed on 

the market based on tests or 

certifications carried out in that country, 

or equivalency agreements under which 

a regulator in one country agrees to 

recognize another country’s standards as 

equivalent to its own, allowing products 

to be placed on its market that meet the 

other country’s standards. The outcome 

of any such regulatory cooperation must 

ensure that each country can continue 

to meet its legitimate policy objectives. 

In addition, when regulators 

cooperate with regard to regulatory 

measures, their cooperation may serve 

not only to facilitate trade, but may also 

help to realize common public policy 

objectives. For example, when 

regulators in different countries 

coordinate their efforts in carrying out 

product recalls, it can help ensure that 

defective or unsafe products are 

promptly removed from the market, 

thereby increasing consumers’ 

confidence in the products they buy and 

in the global trading system. 

Request for information. ITA invites 

public comment on the following 

possible types of cooperative regulatory 

activities between or among the United 

States, Mexico, and Canada: 

information-sharing agreements; 

technical assistance; memoranda of 

understanding, mutual recognition 

agreements; collaboration between 

regulators before initiating rulemaking 

proceedings; agreements to align 

particular regulatory measures; 

equivalency arrangements; and 

accreditation of testing laboratories or 

other conformity assessment bodies. 

ITA acknowledges that these types of 

cooperative agreements and activities 

are not appropriate in all cases, so 

interested parties are asked to provide a 

rationale for the proposed use of a 

particular cooperative approach or 

specific activity. ITA is also seeking 

recommendations for existing or 

emerging industry or product sectors 

that may benefit from regulatory 

coordination across North America. 

Submitters should be as specific as 

possible in describing the relevant 

product or product sector, and the 

country or countries in which they 

believe there is an opportunity to 

facilitate trade. In addition, each 

proposal should include, where 

appropriate: (a) A description of the 

specific measure or measures that the 

proposal would address (e.g., laws or 

regulations setting out safety or testing 

requirements for the relevant product or 

product sector); (b) an Internet link to or 

a copy of the measure in English and 

documentation that may assist ITA in 

understanding the measure; (c) 

identification of the key markets in 

North America for the product or 

product sector; (d) a description of how 

and to what degree the regulatory 

measures are affecting trade and its 

related costs; (e) information that may 

affect the proposal’s feasibility (e.g., 

U.S. legal, regulatory, or policy 

constraints, or any response from 

stakeholders or U.S. trading partners the 

proposal may elicit); (f) estimates of the 

potential benefits that would result from 

more closely aligning the regulatory 

measure, as well as a description of the 

method by which the submitter has 

calculated the benefits; (g) contact 

information, if known, for key 

government and non-government 

stakeholders in the country or countries 

to which the proposal applies; and (h) 

any other information that may assist 

ITA in considering the proposal. 

ITA is interested in receiving 

proposals concerning any product sector 

that, due to the volume of trade in North 

America, is a justifiable focus of 

enhanced regulatory cooperation. 

Submitters are encouraged to work with 

counterparts and other interested 

stakeholders in Canada and/or Mexico 

to submit comments jointly. ITA will 

give positive consideration to proposals 

that demonstrate strong support from 

stakeholders across North America. 

Requirements for Submissions: In 

order to ensure the timely receipt and 

consideration of comments, ITA 

strongly encourages commenters to 

make on-line submissions, using the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site. 

Comments should be submitted under 

docket number ITA–2011–0003–0001. 

To find this docket, enter the docket 

number in the ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ 

window at the http:// 

www.regulations.gov home page and 

click ‘‘Search.’’ The site will provide a 

search-results page listing all documents 

associated with that docket number. 

Find a reference to this notice by 

selecting ‘‘Notice’’ under ‘‘Document 

Type’’ on the search-results page, and 

click on the link entitled ‘‘Submit a 

Comment.’’ The www.regulations.gov 

Web site provides the option of making 

submissions by filling in a comments 

field, or by attaching a document. ITA 

prefers submissions to be provided in an 

attached document. (For further 

information on using the 

www.regulations.gov Web site, please 

consult the resources provided on the 

website by clicking on the ‘‘Help’’ tab.) 

All comments and recommendations 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be made available to the public. For any 

comments submitted electronically 

containing business confidential 

information, the file name of the 

business confidential version should 

begin with the characters ‘‘BC’’. The top 

of any page containing business 

confidential information must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’. 

Any person filing comments that 

contain business confidential 

information must also file in a separate 

submission a public version of the 

comments. The file name of the public 

version of the comments should begin 

with the character ‘‘P’’. The ‘‘BC’’ and ‘‘P’’ 

should be followed by the name of the 

person or entity submitting the 

comments. If a comment contains no 

business confidential information, the 

file name should begin with the 

character ‘‘P’’, followed by the name of 

the person or entity submitting the 

comments. 

Please do not attach separate cover 

letters to electronic submissions; rather, 

include any information that might 

appear in a cover letter in the comments 


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themselves. Similarly, to the extent 

possible, please include any exhibits, 

annexes, or other attachments in the 

same file as the submission itself, not as 

separate files. 

Dated: February 28, 2011. 

Michelle O’Neill, 

Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for 

International Trade. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4862 Filed 3–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA160 

Marine Mammals; File No. 15330; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Robin Baird, PhD, Cascadia Research, 

2181⁄2 W. 4th Avenue, Olympia, WA 

98501, has applied in due form for a 

permit to take marine mammals in the 

Pacific Ocean for the purposes of 

scientific research. 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or e-mail 

comments must be received on or before 

March 28, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public 

Comment’’ from the Features box on the 

Applications and Permits for Protected 

Species (APPS) home page, https:// 

apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting 

File No. 15530 from the list of available 

applications. 

These documents are also available 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office(s): See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Written comments on this application 

should be submitted to the Chief, 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, at the address listed below. 

Comments may also be submitted by 

facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or by email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. 

Please include the File No. in the 

subject line of the email comment. 

Comments may also be submitted by email. The mailbox address for providing 

e-mail comments is 

NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Include 

in the subject line of the e-mail 

comment the following document 

identifier: File No. 15330. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Morse or Carrie Hubard, (301) 

713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

February 25, 2011, notice was published 

in the Federal Register (76 FR 10560) 

that a request for a scientific research 

permit had been submitted by the 

above-named applicant. The file number 

for the application in the title and email comment address is corrected in 

this document. All other information to 

the notice has been unchanged. Please 

refer to the February 25, 2011 notice for 

a summary of the application. 

Documents may be reviewed in the 

following locations: 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301)713–2289; fax (301)427–2521; 

Northwest Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand 

Point Way, NE, BIN C15700, Bldg. 1, 

Seattle, WA 98115–0700; phone 

(206)526–6150; fax (206)526–6426; 

Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 

21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668; phone 

(907)586–7221; fax (907)586–7249; 

Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West 

Ocean Blvd., Suite 4200, Long Beach, 

CA 90802–4213; phone (562)980–4001; 

fax (562)980–4018; and 

Pacific Islands Region, NMFS, 1601 

Kapiolani Blvd., Rm 1110, Honolulu, HI 

96814–4700; phone (808)973–2935; fax 

(808)973–2941. 

Dated: February 25, 2011. 

Tammy C. Adams, 

Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4811 Filed 3–2–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA213 

Schedules for Atlantic Shark 

Identification Workshops and 

Protected Species Safe Handling, 

Release, and Identification Workshops 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public workshops. 

SUMMARY: Free Atlantic Shark 

Identification Workshops and Protected 

Species Safe Handling, Release, and 

Identification Workshops will be held in 

April, May, and June of 2011. Certain 

fishermen and shark dealers are 

required to attend a workshop to meet 

regulatory requirements and maintain 

valid permits. Specifically, the Atlantic 

Shark Identification Workshop is 

mandatory for all federally permitted 

Atlantic shark dealers. The Protected 

Species Safe Handling, Release, and 

Identification Workshop is mandatory 

for vessel owners and operators who use 

bottom longline, pelagic longline, or 

gillnet gear, and who have also been 

issued shark or swordfish limited access 

permits. Additional free workshops will 

be conducted during 2011. 

DATES: The Atlantic Shark Identification 

Workshops will be held April 7, April 

14, May 5, June 2, and June 16, 2011. 

The Protected Species Safe Handling, 

Release, and Identification Workshops 

will be held on April 20, April 27, May 

18, May 25, June 15, and June 29, 2011. 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

further details. 

ADDRESSES: The Atlantic Shark 

Identification Workshops will be held in 

Kenner, LA; Port Orange, FL (2); 

Foxborough, MA: and Manahawkin, NJ. 

The Protected Species Safe Handling, 

Release, and Identification Workshops 

will be held in Kitty Hawk, NC; Kenner, 

LA; Charleston, SC; Boston, MA; Corpus 

Christi, TX; and Port St. Lucie, FL. 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

further details on workshop locations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard A. Pearson by phone: (727) 

824–5399, or by fax: (727) 824–5398. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

workshop schedules, registration 

information, and a list of frequently 

asked questions regarding these 

workshops are posted on the Internet at: 

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/ 

workshops/. 

Atlantic Shark Identification 

Workshops 

Since January 1, 2008, Atlantic shark 

dealers have been prohibited from 

receiving, purchasing, trading, or 

bartering for Atlantic sharks unless a 

valid Atlantic Shark Identification 

Workshop certificate is on the premises 

of each business listed under the shark 

dealer permit which first receives 

Atlantic sharks (71 FR 58057; October 2, 

2006). Dealers who attend and 

successfully complete a workshop are 

issued a certificate for each place of 

business that is permitted to receive 

sharks. These certificate(s) are valid for 

3 years. Approximately 55 free Atlantic 

Shark Identification Workshops have 

been conducted since January 2007. 

Currently permitted dealers may send 

a proxy to an Atlantic Shark 

Identification Workshop. However, if a 


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