77232 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 247 / Monday, December 27, 2004 / Notices 

Specifications:

Fabric 1:

Petitioner Style No: 62BU1600240A

HTS Subheading: 5209.31.60.50

Fiber Content: 100% Cotton

Weight: 291.5 g/m2

Width: 160 centimeters cuttable

Thread Count: 24.41 warp ends per centimeter; 16.53 filling picks 

per centimeter; total: 40.94 

threads per square centimeter

Yarn Number: Warp: 25.4 metric, ring spun; 

filling: 10.16 metric, open 

end spun; overall average 

yarn number: 14.04 metric

Finish: (Piece) dyed; napped on both 

sides, sanforized

Fabric 2:

Petitioner Style No: 62BU1600240B

HTS Subheading: 5209.31.60.50

Fiber Content: 100% Cotton

Weight: 305 g/m2

Width: 160 centimeters cuttable

Thread Count: 24.41 warp ends per centimeter; 18.11 filling picks 

per centimeter; total: 42.52 

threads per square centimeter

Yarn Number: Warp: 25.4 metric, ring spun; 

filling: 10.16 metric, open 

end spun; overall average 

yarn number: 13.95 metric

Finish: (Piece) dyed; napped on both 

sides, sanforized

An ‘‘eligible CBTPA beneficiary 

country’’ means a country which the 

President has designated as a CBTPA 

beneficiary country under section 

213(b)(5)(B) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 

2703(b)(5)(B)) and which has been the 

subject of a finding, published in the 

Federal Register , that the country has 

satisfied the requirements of section 

213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 

2703(b)(4)(A)(ii)) and resulting in the 

enumeration of such country in U.S. 

note 1 to subchapter XX of Chapter 98 

of the HTSUS.

D. Michael Hutchinson,

Acting Chairman, Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–S

COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Solicitation of Public Comments on 

Request for Textile and Apparel 

Safeguard Action on Imports From 

China 

December 16, 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 

dressing gowns and robes (Category 

350/650). 

SUMMARY: The Committee has received a 

request from the National Council of 

Textile Organizations, the National 

Textile Association, the American 

Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, 

SEAMS, and UNITE HERE! (Requestors) 

asking the Committee to reapply the 

limit on imports from China of dressing 

gowns and robes 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). On December 24, 2003 the 

Committee established an Accession 

Agreement limit on imports from China 

of dressing gowns and robes, which will 

expire on December 23, 2004. 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 request. 

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 November 24, 2004, the 

Requestors asked the Committee to 

reapply an Accession Agreement textile 

and apparel safeguard action on imports 

from China of dressing gowns and robes 

(Category 350/650) on the ground that 

an anticipated increase in imports of 

dressing gowns and robes after 

December 23, 2004, threatens to disrupt 

the U.S. market for dressing gowns and 

robes. The request is available at http:/

/otexa.ita.doc.gov/Safeguard_intro.htm.

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 

dressing gowns and robes and, if so, the 

role of Chinese-origin dressing gowns 

and robes 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 expire on December 23, 2004: 

(1) Whether imports of dressing gowns 

and robes from China are entering, or 

are expected to enter, the United States 

at prices that are substantially below 

prices of the like or directly competitive 

U.S. product, and whether those 

imports are likely to have a significant 

depressing or suppressing effect on 

domestic prices of the like or directly 

competitive U.S. product or are likely to 

increase demand for further imports 

from China; (2) whether exports of 

Chinese-origin dressing gowns and 

robes to the United States are likely to 

increase substantially and imminently 

(due to existing unused production 

capacity, to capacity that can easily be 

shifted from the production of other 

products to the production of dressing 

gowns and robes, or to an imminent and 

substantial increase in production 

capacity or investment in production 

capacity), taking into account the 

availability of other markets to absorb 

any additional exports; (3) whether 

Chinese-origin dressing gowns and 

robes that are presently sold in the 

Chinese market or in third-country 

markets will be diverted to the U.S. 

market in the imminent future (for 

example, due to more favorable pricing 

in the U.S. market or to existing or 

imminent import restraints into third 

country markets); (4) the level and the 

extent of any recent change in 

inventories of dressing gowns and robes 

in China or in U.S. bonded warehouses; 

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(5) whether conditions of the domestic 

industry of the like or directly 

competitive product demonstrate that 

market disruption is likely (as may be 

evident from any anticipated factory 

closures or decline in investment in the 

production of dressing gowns and robes, 

and whether actual or anticipated 

imports of Chinese-origin dressing 

gowns and robes are likely to affect the 

development and production efforts of 

the U.S. dressing gowns and robes 

industry; and (6) whether U.S. 

managers, retailers, purchasers, 

importers, or other market participants 

have recognized Chinese producers of 

dressing gowns and robes as potential 

suppliers (for example, through prequalification procedures or framework 

agreements). 

Comments may be submitted by any 

interested person. Comments must be 

received no later than January 26, 2005. 

Interested persons are invited to submit 

ten copies of such comments to the 

Chairman, Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements, 

Room 3001A, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

The Committee will protect any 

business confidential information that is 

marked business confidential from 

disclosure to the full extent permitted 

by law. To the extent that business 

confidential information is provided, 

two copies of a non-confidential version 

must also be provided in which 

business confidential information is 

summarized or, if necessary, deleted. 

Comments received, with the exception 

of information marked ‘‘business 

confidential’’, will be available for 

inspection between Monday and Friday, 

8:30 a.m and 5:30 p.m in the Trade 

Reference and Assistance Center Help 

Desk, Suite 800M, USA Trade 

Information Center, Ronald Reagan 

Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC, (202) 482–3433. 

The Committee will make a 

determination within 60 calendar days 

of the close of the comment period as 

to whether the United States will 

request consultations with China. If the 

Committee is unable to make a 

determination within 60 calendar days, 

it will cause to be published a notice in 

the Federal Register, including the date 

by which it will make a determination. 

If the Committee makes a negative 

determination, it will cause this 

determination and the reasons therefore 

to be published in the Federal Register. 

If the Committee makes an affirmative 

determination that imports of Chineseorigin dressing gowns and robes 

threaten to disrupt the U.S. market, the 

United States will request consultations 

with China with a view to easing or 

avoiding the disruption.

James C. Leonard, III, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m. Friday, January 

7, 2005.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb, 

Secretary of the Commission.

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BILLING CODE 6351–01–M

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 

14, 2005.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb, 

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–28412 Filed 12–22–04; 3:38 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–M

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 

21, 2005.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb, 

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–28413 Filed 12–22–04; 3:38 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–M

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 

28, 2005.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb, 

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–28414 Filed 12–22–04; 3:38 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

The Department of defense has 

submitted to OMB for clearance, the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C 

Chapter 35).

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by January 26, 2005. 

Title, Form, and OMB Number:

Personnel Security Investigation 

Projection for Industry Survey; DSS 

Form 232; OMB Control Number 0704–

0417. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Number of Respondents: 12,117. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 12,117.