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Coverage: C-List for 100% of the 

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as aggregated by the Service Area Office 

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NPA: Winston-Salem Industries for the 

Blind, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC 

Contracting Activity: Department of Veterans 

Affairs Service Area Organization East, 

Pittsburgh, PA 

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Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–26359 Filed 10–25–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

[Docket #:121018560–2560–01; OMB 

Control #:0625–0271 (Expiration: 10/31/ 

2015)] 

RIN 0625–XC003 

Interim Procedures for Considering 

Requests From the Public for Textile 

and Apparel Safeguard Actions on 

Imports From Colombia 

AGENCY: The Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements. 

ACTION: Notice of Interim Procedures 

and Request for Comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

interim procedures the Committee for 

the Implementation of Textile 

Agreements (‘‘CITA’’) will follow in 

implementing certain provisions of the 

United States—Colombia Trade 

Promotion Agreement (‘‘U.S.-Colombia 

TPA’’). Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321 

through Section 328 of the United 

States-Colombia Trade Promotion 

Agreement Implementation Act 

(‘‘Implementation Act’’) [Pub. L. 112– 

42] authorizes the President to consider 

requests from the public for textile and 

apparel safeguard actions. The President 

has delegated to CITA the authority to 

determine whether imports of a 

Colombian textile or apparel article are 

causing serious damage, or actual threat 

thereof, to a domestic industry 

producing an article that is like, or 

directly competitive with, the imported 

article. CITA hereby gives notice to 

interested entities of the procedure 

CITA will follow in considering such 

requests and solicits public written 

comments on these interim procedures. 

DATES: As of October 26, 2012, CITA 

intends to use these interim procedures 

to process requests from the public. 

CITA solicits public written comments 

on the interim procedures. Comments 

on the procedures must be received no 

later than November 26, 2012 of this 

notice, either in hard copy or 

electronically. 

ADDRESSES: If submitting comments in 

hard copy, an original, signed document 

must be submitted to the Chairman, 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements, Room 3100, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. If submitting 

comments electronically, the electronic 

copy must be submitted to 

OTEXA_COLOMBIA@trade.gov. All 

submitted comments will be posted for 

public review on the Web site dedicated 

to U.S.-Colombia TPA textile and 

apparel safeguard proceedings. The Web 

site is located on the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s Office of Textile and 

Apparel Web site 

(www.otexa.ita.doc.gov), under 

‘‘Colombia TPA’’/’’Safeguards’’ 

Additional instructions regarding the 

submission of comments may be found 

at the end of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laurie Mease, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–3400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Legal Authority: Section 321 through 

Section 328 of the Implementation Act and 

Proclamation No. 8818, 77 FR 29519 (May 

18, 2012). 

Background 

Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321 

through Section 328 of the 

Implementation Act implements the 

textile and apparel safeguard provisions, 


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provided for in Article 3.1 of the U.S.- 

Colombia TPA. The safeguard 

mechanism applies when, as a result of 

the elimination of duties under the U.S.- 

Colombia TPA, a Colombian textile or 

apparel article benefiting from 

preferential tariff treatment is being 

imported into the United States in such 

increased quantities, in absolute terms 

or relative to the domestic market for 

that article, and under such conditions 

as to cause serious damage or actual 

threat thereof to a U.S. industry 

producing a like or directly competitive 

article. In these circumstances, Section 

322 of the Implementation Act permits 

the United States to increase duties on 

the imported article from Colombia to a 

level that does not exceed the lesser of 

the prevailing U.S. most-favored-nation 

(MFN) duty rate for the article or the 

U.S. MFN duty rate in effect on the day 

before the U.S.-Colombia TPA enters 

into force. 

The import tariff relief is effective 

beginning on the date that CITA 

determines that a ‘‘Colombian textile or 

apparel article,’’ as defined in Section 

301(2) of the Implementation Act, is 

being imported into the United States in 

such increased quantities, in absolute 

terms or relative to the domestic market 

for that article, and under such 

conditions that imports of the article 

cause serious damage, or actual threat 

thereof, to a U.S. industry producing an 

article that is like, or directly 

competitive with, the imported article. 

Consistent with Section 323(a) of the 

Implementation Act, the maximum 

period of import tariff relief, as set forth 

in Section 3 of this notice, shall be two 

years. However, consistent with Section 

323(b) of the Implementation Act, CITA 

may extend the period of import relief 

for a period of not more than 1 year if 

CITA determines that the continuation 

is necessary to remedy or prevent 

serious damage and to facilitate 

adjustment by the domestic industry to 

import competition, and that there is 

evidence that the domestic industry is 

making a positive adjustment to import 

competition. Import tariff relief may not 

be applied to the same article at the 

same time under these procedures if 

relief previously has been granted with 

respect to that article under: (1) These 

procedures; (2) Subtitle A to Title III of 

the Implementation Act; or (3) Chapter 

1 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 

U.S.C. 2251 et seq.). 

Authority to provide import tariff 

relief with respect to a Colombian 

textile or apparel article will expire five 

years after the date on which the U.S.- 

Colombia TPA enters into force. 

Under Article 3.1.7 of the U.S.- 

Colombia TPA, if the United States 

provides relief to a domestic industry 

under the textile and apparel safeguard, 

it must provide Colombia ‘‘mutually 

agreed trade liberalizing compensation 

in the form of concessions having 

substantially equivalent trade effects or 

equivalent to the value of the additional 

duties expected to result from the textile 

safeguard measure.’’ Such concessions 

shall be limited to textile and apparel 

products, unless the United States and 

Colombia agree otherwise. Under 

Article 3.1.8 of the U.S.-Colombia TPA, 

if the United States and Colombia are 

unable to agree on trade liberalizing 

compensation, Colombia may increase 

customs duties equivalently on U.S. 

products. The obligation to provide 

compensation terminates upon 

termination of the safeguard relief. 

Section 327 of the Implementation Act 

extends the President’s authority to 

provide compensation under Section 

123 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 

2133), as amended, to measures taken 

pursuant to the U.S.-Colombia TPA’s 

textile and apparel safeguard provisions. 

Procedures for Requesting Textile and 

Apparel Safeguard Actions 

1. Requirements for Requests. 

Pursuant to Section 321(a) of the 

Implementation Act and Paragraph (9) 

of Presidential Proclamation 8818 of 

May 18, 2012, an interested party may 

file a request for a textile and apparel 

safeguard action with CITA. CITA will 

review requests from an interested party 

sent to the Chairman, Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements, 

Room 3100, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

Ten copies of any such request must be 

provided. As provided in Section 328 of 

the Implementation Act, CITA will 

protect from disclosure any business 

confidential information that is marked 

‘‘business confidential’’ to the full 

extent permitted by law. To the extent 

that business confidential information is 

provided, two copies of a nonconfidential version must also be 

provided, that is identical to the 

business confidential version with the 

exception that any business confidential 

information is summarized or, if 

necessary, deleted. At the conclusion of 

the request, an interested party must 

attest that ‘‘all information contained in 

the request is complete and accurate 

and no false claims, statements, or 

representations have been made.’’ 

Consistent with Section 321(a), the 

CITA will review a request initially to 

determine whether to commence 

consideration of the request on its 

merits. Within 15 working days of 

receipt of a request, the CITA will 

consider the criteria set forth below to 

determine whether the request provides 

the information necessary for CITA to 

consider the request. If the request does 

not provide the necessary information, 

CITA will promptly notify the requester 

of the reasons for this determination and 

the request will not be considered. 

However, CITA will reevaluate any 

request that is resubmitted with 

additional information. 

Consistent with longstanding CITA 

practice in considering textile safeguard 

actions, CITA will consider an 

interested party to be an entity (which 

may be a trade association, firm, 

certified or recognized union, or group 

of workers) that is representative of 

either: (A) A domestic producer or 

producers of an article that is like, or 

directly competitive with, the subject 

Colombian textile or apparel article; or 

(B) a domestic producer or producers of 

a component used in the production of 

an article that is like, or directly 

competitive with, the subject Colombian 

textile or apparel article. 

A request will only be considered if 

the request includes the specific 

information set forth below in support 

of a claim that a textile or apparel article 

from Colombia is being imported into 

the United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage, or actual threat thereof, 

to a U.S. industry producing an article 

that is like, or directly competitive with, 

the imported article. 

A. Product description. Name and 

description of the imported article 

concerned, including the category or 

categories or part thereof of the U.S. 

Textile and Apparel Category System 

(see ‘‘Textile Correlation’’ at http:// 

otexa.ita.doc.gov/corr.htm) under which 

such article is classified, the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States subheading(s) under 

which such article is classified, and the 

name and description of the like or 

directly competitive domestic article 

concerned. 

B. Import data. The following data, in 

quantity by category unit (see ‘‘Textile 

Correlation’’), on total imports of the 

subject article into the United States and 

imports from Colombia into the United 

States: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year 

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2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

The data should demonstrate that 

imports of a Colombian-origin textile or 

apparel article that is like or directly 

competitive with, the article produced 

by the domestic industry concerned are 

increasing in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article. 

C. Production data. The following 

data, in quantity by category unit (see 

‘‘Textile Correlation’’), on U.S. domestic 

production of the like or directly 

competitive article of U.S. origin 

indicating the nature and extent of the 

serious damage or actual threat thereof: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year 

(e.g., January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

The requester must provide a 

complete listing of all sources from 

which the data were obtained and an 

affirmation that to the best of the 

requester’s knowledge, the data 

represent substantially all of the 

domestic production of the like or 

directly competitive article(s) of U.S. 

origin. In such cases, data should be 

reported in the first unit of quantity in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (http://www.usitc.gov/ 

tata/hts) for the Colombian textile and/ 

or apparel articles and the like or 

directly competitive articles of U.S. 

origin. 

D. Market Share Data. The following 

data, in quantity by category unit (see 

‘‘Textile Correlation’’), on imports from 

Colombia as a percentage of the 

domestic market (defined as the sum of 

domestic production of the like or 

directly competitive article and total 

imports of the subject article); on total 

imports as a percentage of the domestic 

market; and on domestic production of 

like or directly competitive articles as a 

percentage of the domestic market: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year 

(e.g., January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

E. Additional data showing serious 

damage or actual threat thereof. All 

data available to the requester showing 

changes in productivity, utilization of 

capacity, inventories, exports, wages, 

employment, domestic prices, profits 

and losses, and investment, and any 

other information, relating to the 

existence of serious damage, or actual 

threat thereof, caused by imports from 

Colombia to the industry producing the 

like or directly competitive article that 

is the subject of the request. To the 

extent that such information is not 

available, the requester should provide 

best estimates and the basis therefore: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year 

(e.g., January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

2. Consideration of Requests. 

Consistent with Section 321(b) of the 

Implementation Act, if CITA determines 

that the request provides the 

information necessary for it to be 

considered, CITA will publish in the 

Federal Register a notice seeking public 

comments regarding the request, which 

will include a summary of the request 

and the date by which comments must 

be received. The Federal Register notice 

and the request, with the exception of 

information marked ‘‘business 

confidential,’’ will be posted by the 

Department of Commerce’s Office of 

Textiles and Apparel (‘‘OTEXA’’) on the 

Internet (http://otexa.ita.doc.gov). The 

comment period shall be 30 calendar 

days. To the extent business 

confidential information is provided, a 

non-confidential version must also be 

provided, that is identical to the 

business confidential version with the 

exception that any business confidential 

information is summarized or, if 

necessary, deleted. At the conclusion of 

its submission of such public 

comments, an interested party must 

attest that ‘‘all information contained in 

the comments is complete and accurate 

and no false claims, statements, or 

representations have been made.’’ 

Comments received, with the exception 

of information marked ‘‘business 

confidential,’’ will also be on the 

Internet (http://otexa.ita.doc.gov) for 

review by the public. If a comment 

alleges that there is no serious damage 

or actual threat thereof, or that the 

subject imports are not the cause of the 

serious damage or actual threat thereof, 

CITA will closely review any supporting 

information and documentation, such as 

information about domestic production 

or prices of like or directly competitive 

articles. In the case of requests 

submitted by entities that are not the 

actual producers of a like or directly 

competitive article, particular 

consideration will be given to comments 

representing the views of actual 

producers in the United States of a like 

or directly competitive article. 

Any interested party may submit 

information to rebut, clarify, or correct 

public comments submitted by any 

other interested party at any time prior 

to the deadline provided in this section 

for submission of such public 

comments. If public comments are 

submitted less than 10 days before, or 

on, the applicable deadline for 

submission of such public comments, 

an interested party may submit 

information to rebut, clarify, or correct 

the public comments no later than 10 

days after the applicable deadline for 

submission of public comments. 

With respect to any request 

considered by CITA, CITA will make a 

determination within 60 calendar days 

of the close of the comment period. If 

CITA is unable to make a determination 

within 60 calendar days, it will publish 

a notice in the Federal Register and 

include the date by which it will make 

a determination. If CITA makes a 

negative determination, it will publish 

this determination and the reasons 

therefore in the Federal Register. 

3. Determination and Provision of 

Relief. CITA shall determine whether, as 

a result of the reduction or elimination 

of a duty under the U.S.-Colombia TPA, 

Colombia’s textile or apparel article is 

being imported into the United States in 

such increased quantities, in absolute 

terms or relative to the domestic market 

for that article, and under such 

conditions as to cause serious damage, 

or actual threat thereof, to a domestic 

industry producing an article that is 

like, or directly competitive with, the 

imported article. In making this 

determination, CITA: (1) Shall examine 

the effect of increased imports on the 

domestic industry as reflected in such 

relevant economic factors as output, 

productivity, utilization of capacity, 

inventories, market share, exports, 

wages, employment, domestic prices, 

profits and losses, and investment, none 

of which is necessarily decisive; and (2) 

shall not consider changes in 

technology or consumer preference as 

factors supporting a determination of 

serious damage or actual threat thereof. 

CITA, without delay, will provide 

written notice of its decision to the 

Government of Colombia and will 

consult with said party upon its request. 

If a determination under this section 

is affirmative, CITA may provide import 

tariff relief to a U.S. industry to the 

extent necessary to remedy or prevent 

the serious damage or actual threat 

thereof and to facilitate adjustment by 


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the domestic industry to import 

competition. Such relief may consist of 

an increase in duties to the lower of: (1) 

The column 1 general rate of duty 

imposed under the HTS on like articles 

at the time the relief is granted; or (2) 

the column 1 general rate of duty 

imposed under the HTS on like articles 

on the day before the Agreement enters 

into force. 

The import tariff relief is effective 

beginning on the date that CITA’s 

affirmative determination is published 

in the Federal Register. The maximum 

period of import tariff relief shall be 

three years. However, if the initial 

period for import relief is less than three 

years, CITA may extend the period of 

import relief to the maximum three-year 

period if CITA determines that the 

continuation is necessary to remedy or 

prevent serious damage or actual threat 

thereof by the domestic industry to 

import competition, and that the 

domestic industry is, in fact, making a 

positive adjustment to import 

competition. Import tariff relief may not 

be imposed for an aggregate period 

greater than three years. Import tariff 

relief may not be applied to the same 

article at the same time under these 

procedures if relief previously has been 

granted with respect to that article 

under: (1) These procedures; (2) Subtitle 

A to Title III of the Implementation Act; 

or (3) Chapter 1 of Title II of the Trade 

Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2251 et seq.). 

Authority to provide import tariff 

relief for a textile or apparel article from 

Colombia that is being imported into the 

United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

to a U.S. industry producing a like or 

directly competitive article, will expire 

five years after the date on which the 

U.S.-Colombia TPA enters into force. 

4. Self Initiation. CITA may, on its 

own initiative, consider whether 

imports of a textile or apparel article 

from Colombia are being imported into 

the United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

to a U.S. industry producing a like or 

directly competitive article. In such 

considerations, CITA will follow 

procedures consistent with those set 

forth in Section 2 of this notice, 

including the publishing of a notice in 

the Federal Register seeking public 

comment regarding the action it is 

considering. 

5. Record Keeping and Business 

Confidential Information. The Office of 

Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) will 

maintain an official record for each 

request on behalf of CITA. The official 

record will include all factual 

information, written argument, or other 

material developed by, presented to, or 

obtained by OTEXA regarding the 

request, as well as other material 

provided to the Department of 

Commerce by other government 

agencies for inclusion in the official 

record. The official record will include 

CITA memoranda pertaining to the 

request, memoranda of CITA meetings, 

meetings between OTEXA staff and the 

public, determinations, and notices 

published in the Federal Register. The 

official record will contain material 

which is public, business confidential, 

privileged, and classified, but will not 

include pre-decisional inter-agency or 

intra-agency communications. If CITA 

decides it is appropriate to consider 

materials submitted in an untimely 

manner, such materials will be 

maintained in the official record. 

Otherwise, such material will be 

returned to the submitter and will not 

be maintained as part of the official 

record. OTEXA will make the official 

record public except for business 

confidential information, privileged 

information, classified information, and 

other information the disclosure of 

which is prohibited by U.S. law. 

The public record will be made 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of Textiles and Apparel, Room 

3100, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC, between the hours of 

8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on business 

days. 

Information designated by the 

submitter as business confidential will 

normally be considered to be business 

confidential unless it is publicly 

available. CITA will protect from 

disclosure any business confidential 

information that is marked ‘‘business 

confidential’’ to the full extent 

permitted by law. To the extent that 

business confidential information is 

provided, two copies of a nonconfidential version must also be 

provided, that is identical to the 

business confidential version with the 

exception that any business confidential 

information is summarized or, if 

necessary, deleted. CITA will make 

available to the public non-confidential 

versions of the request that is being 

considered, non-confidential versions of 

any public comments received with 

respect to a request, and, in the event 

consultations are requested, the 

statement of the reasons and 

justifications for the determination 

subsequent to the delivery of the 

statement to Colombia. 

Request for Comment on the Interim 

Procedures 

Comments must be received no later 

than November 26, 2012, and in the 

following format: 

(1) Comments must be in English. 

(2) Comments must be submitted 

electronically or in hard copy, with 

original signatures. 

(3) Comments submitted 

electronically, via email, must be either 

in PDF or Word format, and sent to the 

following email address: 

OTEXA_COLOMBIA@trade.gov. The 

email version of the comments must 

include an original electronic signature. 

Further, the comments must have a 

bolded heading stating ‘‘Public 

Version’’, and no business confidential 

information may be included. The email 

version of the comments will be posted 

for public review on the COLOMBIA 

FTA Safeguard Web site. 

(4) Comments submitted in hard copy 

must include original signatures and 

must be mailed to the Chairman, 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements, Room 30003, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. All comments 

submitted in hard copy will be made 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of Textiles and Apparel, Room 

30003, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

14th Street and Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC, between the 

hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on 

business days. In addition, comments 

submitted in hard copy will also be 

posted for public review on the 

COLOMBIA FTA Safeguard Web site. 

(5) Any business confidential 

information upon which an interested 

person wishes to rely may only be 

included in a hard copy version of the 

comments. Brackets must be placed 

around all business confidential 

information. Comments containing 

business confidential information must 

have a bolded heading stating 

‘‘Confidential Version.’’ Attachments 

considered business confidential 

information must have a heading stating 

‘‘Business Confidential Information’’. 

The Committee will protect from 

disclosure any business confidential 

information that is marked ‘‘Business 

Confidential Information’’ to the full 

extent permitted by law. 

Kim Glas, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements. 

[FR Doc. 2012–26415 Filed 10–25–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 


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