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11 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(iii). 

12 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). In addition, Rule 19b– 

4(f)(6) requires the Exchange to give the 

Commission written notice of its intent to file the 

proposed rule change, along with a brief description 

and text of the proposed rule change, at least five 

business days prior to the date of filing of the 

proposed rule change, or such shorter time as 

designated by the Commission. The Exchange has 

satisfied this requirement. 13 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 11 and Rule 

19b–4(f)(6) thereunder.12

At any time within 60 days of the 

filing of the proposed rule change, the 

Commission summarily may 

temporarily suspend such rule change if 

it appears to the Commission that such 

action is necessary or appropriate in the 

public interest, for the protection of 

investors, or otherwise in furtherance of 

the purposes of the Act. 

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether the proposed rule 

change is consistent with the Act. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s internet 

comment form (https://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include file number SR– 

NASDAQ–2023–031 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to file 

number SR–NASDAQ–2023–031. This 

file number should be included on the 

subject line if email is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

internet website (https://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for website viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 10 

a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of the filing also 

will be available for inspection and 

copying at the principal office of the 

Exchange. Do not include personal 

identifiable information in submissions; 

you should submit only information 

that you wish to make available 

publicly. We may redact in part or 

withhold entirely from publication 

submitted material that is obscene or 

subject to copyright protection. All 

submissions should refer to file number 

SR–NASDAQ–2023–031 and should be 

submitted on or before October 2, 2023. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.13

Sherry R. Haywood, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19470 Filed 9–8–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 

September 14, 2023. 

PLACE: The meeting will be held via 

remote means and/or at the 

Commission’s headquarters, 100 F 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20549. 

STATUS: This meeting will be closed to 

the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Commissioners, Counsel to the 

Commissioners, the Secretary to the 

Commission, and recording secretaries 

will attend the closed meeting. Certain 

staff members who have an interest in 

the matters also may be present. In the 

event that the time, date, or location of 

this meeting changes, an announcement 

of the change, along with the new time, 

date, and/or place of the meeting will be 

posted on the Commission’s website at 

https://www.sec.gov. 

The General Counsel of the 

Commission, or her designee, has 

certified that, in her opinion, one or 

more of the exemptions set forth in 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), 9(B) 

and (10) and 17 CFR 200.402(a)(3), 

(a)(5), (a)(6), (a)(7), (a)(8), (a)(9)(ii) and 

(a)(10), permit consideration of the 

scheduled matters at the closed meeting. 

The subject matter of the closed 

meeting will consist of the following 

topics: 

Institution and settlement of 

injunctive actions; 

Institution and settlement of 

administrative proceedings; 

Resolution of litigation claims; and 

Other matters relating to examinations 

and enforcement proceedings. 

At times, changes in Commission 

priorities require alterations in the 

scheduling of meeting agenda items that 

may consist of adjudicatory, 

examination, litigation, or regulatory 

matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For further information; please contact 

Vanessa A. Countryman from the Office 

of the Secretary at (202) 551–5400. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Dated: September 7, 2023. 

Vanessa A. Countryman, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19615 Filed 9–7–23; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice:12168] 

Notice of Determinations; Culturally 

Significant Objects Being Imported for 

Exhibition—Determinations: ‘‘Marie 

Laurencin: Sapphic Paris’’ Exhibition 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: I hereby 

determine that certain objects being 

imported from abroad pursuant to 

agreements with their foreign owners or 

custodians for temporary display in the 

exhibition ‘‘Marie Laurencin: Sapphic 

Paris’’ at The Barnes Foundation, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at 

possible additional exhibitions or 

venues yet to be determined, are of 

cultural significance, and, further, that 

their temporary exhibition or display 

within the United States as 

aforementioned is in the national 

interest. I have ordered that Public 

Notice of these determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reed Liriano, Program Coordinator, 

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. 

Department of State (telephone: 202– 

632–6471; email: section2459@

state.gov). The mailing address is U.S. 

Department of State, L/PD, 2200 C 

Street, NW (SA–5), Suite 5H03, 

Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

foregoing determinations were made 

pursuant to the authority vested in me 

by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 

985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 

12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign 

Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 

1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 

6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of 

Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, 

Delegation of Authority No. 236–3 of 

August 28, 2000, and Delegation of 


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Authority No. 523 of December 22, 

2021. 

Nicole L. Elkon, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional 

and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19541 Filed 9–8–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket Number USTR–2023–0010] 

Request for Comments on Significant 

Foreign Trade Barriers for the 2024 

National Trade Estimate Report 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR), 

through the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee (TPSC), publishes the 

National Trade Estimate Report on 

Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE Report) 

each year. USTR invites comments to 

assist it and the TPSC in identifying 

significant foreign barriers to, or 

distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and 

services, U.S. foreign direct investment, 

and U.S. electronic commerce for 

inclusion in the NTE Report. USTR also 

will consider responses to this notice as 

part of the annual review of the 

operation and effectiveness of all U.S. 

trade agreements regarding 

telecommunications products and 

services that are in force with respect to 

the United States. 

DATES: October 23, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. 

ET: Deadline for submission of 

comments. 

ADDRESSES: USTR strongly prefers 

electronic submissions made through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov (Regulations.gov). 

The instructions for submitting 

comments are in sections IV and V 

below. The docket number is USTR– 

2023–0010. For alternatives to online 

submissions, please contact Laura Buffo, 

Chair of the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee, at 

ForeignTradeBarriersReport@

ustr.eop.gov or (202) 395–3475 in 

advance of the deadline. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Buffo, Chair of the Trade Policy 

Staff Committee, at 

ForeignTradeBarriersReport@

ustr.eop.gov or (202) 395–3475. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 181 of the Trade Act of 1974, 

as amended (19 U.S.C. 2241), requires 

USTR annually to publish the NTE 

Report, which sets out an inventory of 

significant foreign barriers to, or 

distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and 

services, including agricultural 

commodities and U.S. intellectual 

property; foreign direct investment by 

U.S. persons, especially if such 

investment has implications for trade in 

goods or services; and U.S. electronic 

commerce. The inventory facilitates 

U.S. negotiations aimed at reducing or 

eliminating these barriers and is a 

valuable tool in enforcing U.S. trade 

laws and agreements and strengthening 

the rules-based trading system. You can 

find the 2023 NTE Report on USTR’s 

website at https://ustr.gov/sites/default/ 

files/2023-03/ 

2023%20NTE%20Report.pdf. To ensure 

compliance with the statutory mandate 

for the NTE Report and the 

Administration’s commitment to focus 

on significant foreign trade barriers, 

USTR will take into account comments 

in response to this notice when deciding 

which significant barriers to include in 

the NTE Report. 

II. Topics on Which the TPSC Seeks 

Information 

To assist USTR in preparing the NTE 

Report, commenters should submit 

information related to one or more of 

the following categories of foreign trade 

barriers: 

1. Import policies. Examples include 

tariffs and other import charges; 

quantitative restrictions; import 

licensing; customs barriers, preshipment inspection, and trade 

facilitation or customs valuation 

practices; and, other market access 

barriers. 

2. Technical barriers to trade. 

Examples include unnecessarily trade 

restrictive or discriminatory standards, 

conformity assessment procedures, or 

technical regulations, including 

unnecessary or discriminatory technical 

regulations or standards for 

telecommunications products. 

3. Sanitary and phytosanitary 

measures. Examples include measures 

relating to food safety, or animal and 

plant life or health that are 

unnecessarily trade restrictive, 

discriminatory, or not based on 

scientific evidence. 

4. Government procurement. 

Examples include closed bidding and 

bidding processes that lack 

transparency. 

5. Intellectual property protection. 

Examples include inadequate patent, 

copyright, and trademark regimes; trade 

secret theft; and, inadequate 

enforcement of intellectual property 

rights. 

6. Services. Examples include 

prohibitions or restrictions on foreign 

participation in the market, 

discriminatory licensing requirements 

or standards, local-presence 

requirements, and unreasonable 

restrictions on what services may be 

offered. 

7. Digital trade. Examples include 

restrictions on the supply of internetenabled services, and other restrictive 

technology requirements. 

8. Investment. Examples include 

limitations on foreign equity 

participation and on access to foreign 

government-funded research and 

development programs, technology 

transfer requirements and export 

performance requirements, and 

restrictions on repatriation of earnings, 

capital, fees and royalties. 

9. Subsidies. Examples include 

subsidies contingent upon export 

performance, and agricultural export 

subsidies that displace U.S. exports in 

third country markets. 

10. Competition. Examples include 

government-tolerated anticompetitive 

conduct that restricts the sale or 

purchase of U.S. goods or services in the 

foreign country’s markets. 

11. State-owned enterprises. Examples 

include actions by state-owned 

enterprises (SOEs) and by governments 

with respect to SOEs involved in the 

manufacture or production of nonagricultural goods or in the supply of 

services that constitute significant 

barriers to, or distortions of, U.S. 

exports of goods and services, U.S. 

investments, or U.S. electronic 

commerce, which may negatively affect 

U.S. firms and workers. These actions 

include subsidies and non-commercial 

advantages provided to and from SOEs; 

and practices with respect to SOEs that 

discriminate against U.S. goods or 

services, or actions by SOEs that are 

inconsistent with commercial 

considerations in the purchase and sale 

of goods and services. 

12. Labor. Examples include concerns 

with failures by a government to protect 

internationally recognized worker rights 

or to eliminate discrimination in respect 

of employment or occupation, in cases 

where these failures influence trade 

flows or investment decisions in ways 

that constitute significant barriers to, or 

distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and 

services, U.S. investment, or U.S. 

electronic commerce, which may 

negatively affect U.S. firms and workers. 

Internationally recognized worker rights 

include: the right of association; the 


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