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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 194 (Monday, October 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81040-81041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23075]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Domestic and International Client Export Services and 
Customized Forms Revision

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on July 29, 2024, during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: International Trade Administration, Commerce.
    Title: Domestic and International Clients Export Services & 
Customized Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0143.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Renewal submission with revision to a currently 
approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 200,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 33,333 (annual).

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    Needs and Uses: The International Trade Administration's (ITA) 
Global Markets' U.S. Commercial Service (CS) is mandated by Congress to 
broaden and deepen the U.S. exporter base. ITA accomplishes this by 
providing counseling, programs and services to help U.S. organizations 
export and conduct business in overseas markets. This information 
collection package enables the CS to provide appropriate export 
services to U.S. exporters and international buyers.
    ITA offers a variety of services to enable clients to begin 
exporting or to expand existing exporting efforts. Clients may learn 
about our services from business related entities such as the National 
Association of Manufacturers, Federal Express, State Economic 
Development offices, the internet or word of mouth. The CS provides a 
standard set of services to assist clients with identifying potential 
overseas partners, establishing meeting programs with appropriate 
overseas business contacts and providing due diligence reports on 
potential overseas business partners. The CS also provides other 
export-related services considered to be of a ``customized nature'' 
because they do not fit into the standard set of CS export services but 
are driven by unique business needs of individual clients.
    Before the CS can provide export-related services to clients, such 
as assistance with identifying potential partners or providing due 
diligence, specific information is required to determine the client's 
business objectives and needs. For example, before a service can be 
provided to identify potential business partners, it is necessary to 
know whether the client would like a potential partner to have specific 
technical qualifications, coverage in a specific market, English or 
foreign language ability or warehousing requirements. This information 
collection is designed to elicit such data so that appropriate services 
can be proposed and conducted to most effectively meet the client's 
exporting goals. Without these forms the CS is unable to provide 
services when requested by clients.
    The forms ask U.S. exporters standard questions about their company 
details, demographic information, export experience, information about 
the products or services they wish to export and exporting goals. A few 
questions are tailored to a specific program type and will vary 
slightly with each program. CS staff use this information to gain an 
understanding of client's needs and objectives so that they can provide 
appropriate and effective export assistance tailored to an exporter's 
particular requirements.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-
for-profit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal government; and 
Federal government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Public Law 15 U.S.C. et seq. and 15 U.S.C. 171 et 
seq.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0625-0143.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-23075 Filed 10-4-24; 8:45 am]
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