76514 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 244 / Tuesday, December 21, 2004 / Notices 

Appointments must be scheduled at 

least 48 hours in advance.

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Trade Policy Staff Committee; Request 

for Public Comment on Review of 

Employment Impact of United StatesUnited Arab Emirates Free Trade 

Agreement Negotiations

AGENCIES: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative; Department of 

Labor.

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Trade Policy Staff 

Committee (TPSC) gives notice that the 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) and the 

Department of Labor (Labor) are 

initiating a review of the impact of a 

proposed free trade agreement (FTA) 

between the United States and the 

United Arab Emirates (UAE) on U.S. 

employment, including labor markets. 

This notice seeks written public 

comment on potentially significant 

sectoral or regional employment 

impacts (both positive and negative) in 

the United States as well as other likely 

labor market impacts of the FTA.

DATES: USTR and Labor will accept any 

comments received during the course of 

the negotiations of the FTA. However, 

comments should be received by noon, 

February 16, 2005, to be assured of 

timely consideration.

ADDRESSES: Submissions by electronic 

mail: FR0512@ustr.eop.gov.

Submissions by facsimile: Gloria Blue, 

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff 

Committee, at (202) 395–6143.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

procedural questions concerning public 

comments, contact Gloria Blue, 

Executive Secretary, TPSC, Office of the 

USTR, 1724 F Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20508, telephone (202) 395–3475. 

Substantive questions concerning the 

employment impact review should be 

addressed to Jorge Perez-Lopez, 

Director, Office of International 

Economic Affairs, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone (202) 693–4883; or William 

Clatanoff, Assistant U.S. Trade 

Representative for Labor, telephone 

(202) 395–6120.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background Information 

In accordance with section 2104 of 

the Trade Act of 2002 (Trade Act) (19 

U.S.C. 3804), on November 15, 2003, the 

USTR notified the Congress of the 

President’s intent to initiate FTA 

negotiations with the UAE. Pursuant to 

the requirements of the Trade Act of 

1974, the USTR requested the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) to 

provide advice on probable economic 

effects no later than February 28, 2005. 

In addition, USTR published a notice in 

the Federal Register soliciting views 

from the public on the negotiations in 

general, and the TPSC will hold a public 

hearing on January 12, 2005. The United 

States intends to begin negotiations with 

the UAE in March 2005. 

2. Employment Impact Review 

Section 2102(c)(5) of the Trade Act 

(19 U.S.C. 3802(c)(5)) directs the 

President to review the impact of future 

trade agreements on U.S. employment, 

including labor markets, modeled after 

Executive Order 13141 to the extent 

appropriate in establishing procedures 

and criteria, report to the Committee on 

Ways and Means of the House of 

Representatives and the Committee on 

Finance of the Senate on such review, 

and make that report available to the 

public. USTR and Labor will conduct 

the employment reviews through the 

TPSC. 

The employment impact review will 

be based on the following elements, 

which are modeled to the extent 

appropriate after those in EO 13141. The 

review will be: (1) Written; (2) initiated 

through a notice in the Federal Register

soliciting public comment and 

information on the employment impact 

of the FTA in the United States; (3) 

made available to the public in draft 

form for public comment, to the extent 

practicable; and (4) made available to 

the public in final form.

Comments may be submitted on 

potentially significant sectoral or 

regional employment impacts (both 

positive and negative) in the United 

States as well as other likely labor 

market impacts of the FTA. Persons 

submitting comments should provide as 

much detail as possible in support of 

their submissions. 

3. Requirements for Submissions 

In order to ensure prompt and full 

consideration of response, the TPSC 

strongly urges and prefers electronic (email) submissions in response to this 

notice. In the event that an e-mail 

submission is impossible, submissions 

should be made by facsimile. 

Persons making submissions by email should use the following subject 

line: ‘‘U.S.–UAE FTA Employment 

Impact Review.’’ Documents should be 

submitted as WordPerfect, MSWord, or 

text (.TXT) files. Spreadsheets 

submitted as supporting documentation 

are acceptable as Quattro Pro or Excel 

files. If any document submitted 

electronically contains business 

confidential information, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘ABC-

,’’ and the file name of the public 

version should begin with the character 

‘‘P-.’’ The ‘‘P-’’ or ‘‘BC-’’ should be 

followed by the name of the submitter. 

Persons who make submissions by email should not provide separate cover 

letters; information that might appear in 

a cover letter should be included in the 

submission itself. To the extent 

possible, any attachments to the 

submission should be included in the 

same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

Written comments will be placed in a 

file open to public inspection pursuant 

to 15 CFR 2003.5, except confidential 

business information exempt from 

public inspection in accordance with 15 

CFR 2003.6. Confidential business 

information submitted in accordance 

with 15 CFR 2003.6 must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’

at the top of each page, including any 

cover letter or cover page, and must be 

accompanied by a non-confidential 

summary of the confidential 

information. All public documents and 

non-confidential summaries shall be 

available for public inspection in the 

USTR Reading Room in Room 3 of the 

Annex of the Office of the USTR, 1724 

F Street, NW., Washington, DC 20508. 

An appointment to review the file may 

be made by calling (202) 395–6186. The 

USTR Reading Room is generally open 

to the public from 10 a.m–12 noon and 

1–4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

Appointments must be scheduled at 

least 48 hours in advance.

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

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