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this notice. Rebuttal comments to

written comments, limited to issues

raised in those comments, may be filed

not later than 21 days after the date of

publication of this notice. All written

comments shall be submitted in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.303.

Persons interested in attending any

public hearing (if requested) should

contact the Department for the date and

time of the hearing. The Department

will publish the final results of this

changed circumstances review,

including the results of its analysis of

issues raised in any written comments

or at a hearing.

This notice is in accordance with

section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR

351.216 and 351.222.

Dated: January 7, 2000.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–1101 Filed 1–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Issuance of an Export

Trade Certificate of Review, Application

No. 99–00006.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

has issued an Export Trade Certificate of

Review to T.P. International Expo

Services Inc. (‘‘TPIES’’). This notice

summarizes the conduct for which

certification has been granted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Morton Schnabel, Director, Office of

Export Trading Company Affairs,

International Trade Administration,

202–482–5131. This is not a toll-free

number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of

the Export Trading Company Act of

1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001–21) authorizes the

Secretary of Commerce to issue Export

Trade Certificates of Review. The

regulations implementing Title III are

found at 15 CFR Part 325 (1999).

The Office of Export Trading

Company Affairs (‘‘OETCA’’) is issuing

this notice pursuant to 15 CFR 325.6(b),

which requires the Department of

Commerce to publish a summary of a

Certificate in the Federal Register.

Under Section 305(a) of the Act and 15

CFR 325.11(a), any person aggrieved by

the Secretary’s determination may,

within 30 days of the date of this notice,

bring an action in any appropriate

district court of the United States to set

aside the determination on the ground

that the determination is erroneous.

Description of Certified Conduct

Export Trade

1. Products; All products.

2. Services; All services.

3. Technology Rights. Technology

rights including, but not limited to,

patents, trademarks, copyrights and

trade secrets that relate to Products and

Services.

4. Export Trade Facilitation Services

(as they Relate to the Export of

Products, Services and Technology

Rights): Export Trade Facilitation

Services, including, but not limited to:

professional services in the areas of

government relations and assistance

with state and federal export programs,

foreign trade and business protocol;

consulting; market research and

analysis; collection of information on

trade opportunities; marketing;

negotiations; joint ventures; shipping

and export management; export

licensing; advertising; documentation

and services related to compliance with

customs requirements; insurance and

financing; bonding; warehousing; export

trade promotion; trade show

exhibitions; organizational

development; management and labor

strategies; transfer of technology;

transportation; and facilitating the

formation of shippers’ associations.

Export Markets

The Export Markets include all parts

of the world except the United States

(the fifty states of the United States, the

District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam,

the Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory

of the Pacific Islands).

Export Trade Activities and Methods of

Operation

TPIES, Inc. may engage in the

following activities with respect to

Export Markets:

1. Provide and/or arrange for the

provision of Export Trade Facilitation

Services;

2. Engage in promotion and marketing

activities and collect and distribute

information on trade opportunities in

the Export Markets;

3. Enter into exclusive and/or nonexclusive agreements with distributors,

foreign buyers, and/or sales

representatives in Export Markets;

4. Enter into exclusive or nonexclusive sales agreements with

Suppliers, Export Intermediaries, or

other persons for the sale of Products

and Services in Export Markets;

5. Enter into exclusive or nonexclusive agreements with Suppliers,

Export Intermediaries, or other persons

for licensing Technology Rights in

Export Markets;

6. Allocate sales, export orders and/or

divide Export Markets among Suppliers,

Export Intermediaries, or other persons

for the sale of Products and Services;

7. Allocate the licensing of

Technology Rights in Export Markets

among Suppliers, Export Intermediaries,

or other persons;

8. Establish the price of Products and

Services for sale in Export Markets;

9. Establish the fee for licensing of

Technology Rights in Export Markets;

and

10. Negotiate, enter into, and/or

manage licensing agreements for the

export of Technology Rights.

Terms and Conditions of Certificate

1. In engaging in Export Trade

Activities and Methods of Operation,

TPIES, Inc. will not intentionally

disclose, directly or indirectly, to any

Supplier any information about any

other Supplier’s costs, production,

capacity, inventories, domestic prices,

domestic sales, or U.S. business plans,

strategies, or methods that is not already

generally available to the trade or

public.

2. TPIES, Inc. will comply with

requests made by the Secretary of

Commerce on behalf of the Secretary or

the Attorney General for information or

documents relevant to conduct under

the Certificate. The Secretary of

Commerce will request such

information or documents when either

the Attorney General or the Secretary of

Commerce believes that the information

or documents are required to determine

that the Export Trade, Export Trade

Activities and Methods of Operation of

a person protected by this Certificate of

Review continue to comply with the

standards of Section 303(a) of the Act.

Definitions

1. Export Intermediary means a

person who acts as a distributor, sales

representative, sales or marketing agent,

or broker, or who performs similar

functions, including providing or

arranging for the provision of Export

Trade Facilitation Services.

2. Supplier means a person who

produces, provides, or sells a Product

and/or a Service.

Protection Provided by the Certificate

This Certificate protects TPIES, Inc.

and its directors, officers, and

employees acting on its behalf from

private treble damage actions and

government criminal and civil suits

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under U.S. federal and state antitrust

laws for the export conduct specified in

the Certificate and carried out during its

effective period in compliance with its

terms and conditions.

A copy of this certificate will be kept

in the International Trade

Administration’s Freedom of

Information Records Inspection Facility

Room 4102, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: January 11, 2000.

Morton Schnabel,

Director, Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 00–1017 Filed 1–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[Docket No. 000104003–0003–01]

Special American Business Internship

Training Program (SABIT)

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In support of the U.S. State

Department’s Russian Regional

Initiative for the Russian Far East,

SABIT is launching a special grant

program for the region of Sakhalin,

Russia. This Notice announces

availability of funds for the Special

American Business Internship Training

Program (SABIT), for training oil and

gas managers and engineers (also

referred to as ‘‘interns’’) from Sakhalin,

Russia. The Department of Commerce,

International Trade Administration

(ITA) established the SABIT program in

September 1990 to assist Russia’s

transition to a market economy. Since

that time, SABIT has been matching

business managers, engineers and

scientists from Russia with U.S. firms

which provide them hands-on training

in a U.S. market economy.

Under the SABIT program, qualified

U.S. firms will receive funds through a

cooperative agreement with ITA to help

defray the cost of hosting interns. ITA

will interview and recommend eligible

interns to participating companies.

Interns must be from Sakhalin Region,

Russia. The U.S. firms will be expected

to provide the interns with a hands-on,

non-academic, executive training

program designed to maximize their

exposure to management or technical

operations. At the end of the training

program, interns must return to

Sakhalin, Russia.

DATES: The closing date for applications

is March 3, 2000. An original and two

copies of the application (Standard

Form 424 (Rev. 4–92) and supplemental

material) are to be sent to the address

designated in the Application Kit and

postmarked no later than the closing

date. Applications will be considered on

a ‘‘rolling’’ basis as they are received,

subject to the availability of funds. If

available funds are depleted prior to the

closing date, a notice to that effect will

be published in the Federal Register.

Processing of complete applications

takes approximately two to three

months. All awards are expected to be

made by May 2000.

ADDRESSES: Request for Applications:

Competitive Application kits will be

available from ITA starting on the day

this notice is published. To obtain a

copy of the Application Kit please Email: SABITApply@ita.doc.gov (please

state which format, e.g. WordPerfect

6.1), telephone (202) 482–0073,

facsimile (202) 482–2443 (these are not

toll free numbers), or send a written

request with two self-addressed mailing

labels to Application Request, The

SABIT Program, HCHB Room 3319, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street

and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC, 20230. Only one copy

of the Application Kit will be provided

to each organization requesting it, but it

may be reproduced by the requester.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Liesel C. Duhon, Director, SABIT

Program, U.S. Department of Commerce,

phone—(202) 482–0073, facsimile—

(202) 482–2443. These are not toll free

numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SABIT

exposes Russian business managers,

engineers and scientists to a completely

new way of thinking in which demand,

consumer satisfaction, and profits drive

production. Mid to senior-level

executives visiting the U.S. for

internship programs with public or

private sector companies will be

exposed to an environment which will

provide them with practical knowledge

for transforming their countries’

enterprises and economies to the free

market. The program provides firsthand, eye-opening experience to

managers, engineers and scientists

which cannot be duplicated by

American managers traveling to their

territories.

Managers and Engineers

SABIT assists economic restructuring

in Russia by providing top-level

business managers and engineers with

practical training in American methods

of innovation and management in such

areas as strategic planning, financing,

production, distribution, marketing,

accounting, wholesaling, technology

and labor relations. This first-hand

experience in the U.S. economy enables

interns to become leaders in

establishing and operating a market

economy in Russia, and creates a unique

opportunity for U.S. firms to familiarize

key executives from Russia with their

products and services. Sponsoring U.S.

firms will benefit by establishing

relationships with key managers in

similar industries who are uniquely

positioned to assist their U.S. sponsors

to do business in Russia.

The Special American Business

Internship Training program’s Catalog of

Federal Domestic Assistance (CFA)

number is 11.114.

Funding Availability

Pursuant to section 632(a) of the

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as

amended (the ‘‘Act’’) funding for the

program will be provided by the United

States Agency for International

Development (A.I.D). ITA will award

financial assistance and administer the

program pursuant to the authority

contained in section 635(b) of the Act

and other applicable Grant rules. The

estimated amount of financial assistance

available for the program is $420,000.

Funding Instrument and Project

Duration

Federal assistance will be awarded

pursuant to a cooperative agreement

between ITA and the recipient firm. All

internships are three to eighteen (18)

months. Eighteen (18) month

internships are limited in number and

will be available on a case-by-case basis

based on the needs identified in the

training proposals. In addition, ITA

reserves the right to allow an intern to

stay for a shorter period of time (no less

than one month) if the U.S. company

agrees and the intern demonstrates a

need for a shorter internship based on

his or her management responsibilities.

ITA will reimburse companies for the

round trip international travel of each

intern from the intern’s home city in

Sakhalin, Russia to one U.S. internship

site, upon submission to ITA of the paid

travel invoice, payment receipt, or other

evidence of payment and the form SF–

270, ‘‘Request for Advance or

Reimbursement.’’ Travel under the

program is subject to the Fly America

Act. Recipient firms provide $30 per

day directly to interns; ITA will

reimburse recipient firms for this

stipend of $30 per day per intern, for up

to 18 months, upon submission by

company of an end-of-internship report

and form SF–270. Recipient firms