4034 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 18 / Tuesday, January 28, 1997 / Notices

Announcement of Import Restraint

Limits for Certain Cotton, Wool, ManMade Fiber, Silk Blend and Other

Vegetable Fiber Textiles and Textile

Products Produced or Manufactured in

Romania

January 22, 1997.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 30, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Naomi Freeman, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212. For information on the

quota status of these limits, refer to the

Quota Status Reports posted on the

bulletin boards of each Customs port or

call (202) 927–5850. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call

(202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March

3, 1972, as amended; section 204 of the

Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7

U.S.C. 1854); Uruguay Round Agreements

Act.

Pursuant to the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act and the Uruguay Round

Agreement on Textiles and Clothing

(ATC), the Bilateral Textile and Apparel

Agreement of December 20, 1994, as

amended and extended by a

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

dated December 15, 1995, between the

Governments of the United States and

Romania, establishes limits for the

period beginning on January 1, 1997 and

extending through December 31, 1997.

In the letter published below, the

Chairman of CITA directs the

Commissioner of Customs to establish

the 1997 limits. The limit for Categories

433/434 has been reduced for

carryforward applied to the 1996 limit.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 61 FR 66263,

published on December 17, 1996).

The letter to the Commissioner of

Customs and the actions taken pursuant

to it are not designed to implement all

of the provisions of the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act, the Uruguay Round

Agreement on Textiles and Clothing,

bilateral agreement and the MOU, but

are designed to assist only in the

implementation of certain of their

provisions.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

January 22, 1997.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: Pursuant to section

204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as

amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act and the Uruguay Round

Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC),

and the Bilateral Textile and Apparel

Agreement of December 20, 1994, as

amended and extended by a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) dated December 15,

1995, between the Governments of the

United States and Romania; and in

accordance with the provisions of Executive

Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended,

you are directed to prohibit, effective on

January 30, 1997, entry into the United States

for consumption and withdrawal from

warehouse for consumption of cotton, wool,

man-made fiber, silk blend and other

vegetable fiber textiles and textile products in

the following categories, produced or

manufactured in Romania and exported

during the twelve-month period beginning on

January 1, 1997 and extending through

December 31, 1997, in excess of the following

levels of restraint:

Category Twelve-month limit

Cotton Group

200, 201, 218–220,

222–227, 229,

237, 239, 300,

301, 313–315,

317, 326, 330–

342, 345, 347–

354, 359–363,

369, 800, 810,

831–836, 838–

840, 842–847,

850–852, 858,

859, 863, 870, 871

and 899, as a

group.

61,602,210 square

meters equivalent.

Sublevels in Cotton

Group

237 ........................... 65,575 dozen.

313 ........................... 1,797,674 square meters.

314 ........................... 1,348,255 square meters.

315 ........................... 3,244,578 square meters.

333/833 .................... 128,503 dozen.

334 ........................... 310,607 dozen.

335/835 .................... 162,772 dozen.

338/339 .................... 702,488 dozen.

340 ........................... 306,631 dozen.

341/840 .................... 128,503 dozen.

347/348 .................... 548,284 dozen.

350 ........................... 29,025 dozen.

352 ........................... 195,454 dozen.

359 ........................... 701,087 kilograms.

360 ........................... 1,811,805 numbers.

Category Twelve-month limit

361 ........................... 1,207,870 numbers.

369 ........................... 318,008 kilograms.

810 ........................... 4,494,185 square meters.

836 ........................... 60,394 dozen.

847 ........................... 80,625 dozen.

Group III

431–436, 438–440,

442–448, 459,

630–654 and 659,

as a group.

70,245,156 square

meters equivalent.

Sublevels in Group

III

433/434 .................... 8,822 dozen.

435 ........................... 9,809 dozen.

442 ........................... 11,361 dozen.

443 ........................... 87,639 numbers.

444 ........................... 41,314 numbers.

447/448 .................... 22,784 dozen.

459 ........................... 34,444 kilograms.

633 ........................... 48,066 dozen.

634 ........................... 58,385 dozen.

638/639 .................... 634,351 dozen.

640 ........................... 87,245 dozen.

641 ........................... 37,818 dozen.

647 ........................... 87,801 dozen.

648 ........................... 62,799 dozen.

659 ........................... 110,673 kilograms.

Levels not in a group

410 ........................... 169,315 square meters.

465 ........................... 131,220 square meters.

604 ........................... 1,616,275 kilograms.

618 ........................... 1,818,577 square meters.

666 ........................... 126,483 kilograms.

Imports charged to these category limits for

the period January 1, 1996 through December

31, 1996 shall be charged against those levels

of restraint to the extent of any unfilled

balances. In the event the limits established

for that period have been exhausted by

previous entries, such goods shall be subject

to the levels set forth in this directive.

The conversion factors for the

following merged categories are listed

below:

Category

Conversion factor

(square meters equivalent/category unit)

341/840 .................... 12.1.

433/434 .................... 35.2.

638/639 .................... 12.96.

The limits set forth above are subject to

adjustment in the future according to the

provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements

Act, the ATC and any administrative

arrangements notified to the Textiles

Monitoring Body.

In carrying out the above directions, the

Commissioner of Customs should construe

entry into the United States for consumption

to include entry for consumption into the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception of the rulemaking provisions of 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(1).
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 18 / Tuesday, January 28, 1997 / Notices 4035

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

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