64034 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 212 / Wednesday, November 3, 2004 / Notices 

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2005

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2005

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Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office.

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November 2004 at 10 a.m. in the 

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agenda and requests to submit written 

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should contact the Secretary at least 10 

days before the meeting date.

Dated in Washington, DC, 27 October 2004. 

Frederick J. Lindstrom, 

Acting Secretary.

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COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS

Solicitation of Public Comments on 

Request for Textile and Apparel 

Safeguard Action on Imports from 

China

October 29, 2004.

AGENCY: The Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(the Committee)

ACTION: Solicitation of public comments 

concerning a request for safeguard 

action on imports from China of cotton 

trousers (Category 347/348).

SUMMARY: The Committee has received a 

request from the American 

Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, 

the National Council of Textile 

Organizations, the National Textile 

Association, SEAMS, and UNITE HERE! 

(Requestors) asking the Committee to 

limit imports from China of cotton 

trousers in accordance with the textile 

and apparel safeguard provision of the 

Working Party on the Accession of 

China to the World Trade Organization 

(the Accession Agreement). The 

Committee hereby solicits public 

comments on this request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jay 

Dowling, Office of Textiles and Apparel, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 

482-4058.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 204 of the Agriculture 

Act of 1956, as amended; Executive Order 

11651, as amended.

BACKGROUND:

The textile and apparel safeguard 

provision of the Accession Agreement 

provides for the United States and other 

members of the World Trade 

Organization that believe imports of 

Chinese origin textile and apparel 

products are, due to market disruption, 

threatening to impede the orderly 

development of trade in these products 

to request consultations with China 

with a view to easing or avoiding the 

disruption. Pursuant to this provision, if 

the United States requests consultations 

with China, it must, at the time of the 

request, provide China with a detailed 

factual statement showing ‘‘(1) the 

existence or threat of market disruption; 

and (2) the role of products of Chinese 

origin in that disruption.’’ Beginning on 

the date that it receives such a request, 

China must restrict its shipments to the 

United States to a level no greater than 

7.5 percent (6 percent for wool product 

categories) above the amount entered 

during the first 12 months of the most 

recent 14 months preceding the month 

in which the request was made. If 

exports from China exceed that amount, 

the United States may enforce the 

restriction.

The Committee has published 

procedures (the Procedures) it follows 

in considering requests for Accession 

Agreement textile and apparel safeguard 

actions (68 FR 27787, May 21, 2003; 68 

FR 49440, August 18, 2003), including 

the information that must be included 

in such requests in order for the 

Committee to consider them.

On October 8, 2004, the Requestors 

asked the Committee to impose an 

Accession Agreement textile and 

apparel safeguard action on imports 

from China of cotton trousers (Category 

347/348) on the ground that an 

anticipated increase in cotton trouser 

imports after January 1, 2005, threatens 

to disrupt the U.S. market for cotton 

trousers. The request is available at 

http://otexa.ita.doc.gov. In light of the 

considerations set forth in the 

Procedures, the Committee has 

determined that the Requestors have 

provided the information necessary for 

the Committee to consider the request.

The Committee is soliciting public 

comments on the request, in particular 

with regard to whether there is a threat 

of disruption to the U.S. market for 

cotton trousers and, if so, the role of 

Chinese-origin cotton trousers in that 

disruption. To this end, the Committee 

seeks relevant information addressing 

factors such as the following, which 

may be relevant in the particular 

circumstances of this case, involving a 

product under a quota that will be