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indicated in the notice within the time 

period set forth therein, the application 

will not be eligible for the Request to 

Make Special for the Law School Clinic 

Certification Pilot Program and the 

application will be taken up for 

examination in accordance with 

standard examination procedures. 

III. Requirement for Restriction 

If the claims in the application are 

directed to multiple inventions, the 

examiner may make a requirement for 

restriction in accordance with current 

restriction practice prior to conducting 

a search. The examiner will contact the 

applicant and follow the procedure for 

the telephone restriction practice set 

forth in MPEP 812.01. Applicant must 

make an election without traverse in a 

telephonic interview. See item 4 of 

section I of this notice. If the examiner 

cannot reach the applicant after a 

reasonable effort or applicant refuses to 

make an election in compliance with 

item 4 of section I of this notice, the 

examiner will treat the first claimed 

invention as constructively elected 

without traverse for examination. 

Dated: September 25, 2012. 

David J. Kappos, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24113 Filed 9–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Amendment of Limitation of Duty- and 

Quota-Free Imports of Apparel Articles 

Assembled in Beneficiary ATPDEA 

Countries From Regional Country 

Fabric 

AGENCY: Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA). 

ACTION: Amending the 12-month cap on 

duty and quota free benefits. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Stetson, International 

TradeSpecialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–3400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority: 

Section 3103 of the Trade Act of 2002, 

Public Law 107–210; Presidential 

Proclamation 7616 of October 31, 2002, 

67 FR 67283 (November 5, 2002); 

Executive Order 13277, 67 FR 70305 

(November 19, 2002); and the Office of 

the United States Trade Representative’s 

Notice of Authority and Further 

Assignment of Functions, 67 FR 71606 

(November 25, 2002). 

Section 3103 of the Trade Act of 2002 

amended the Andean Trade Preference 

Act (ATPA) to provide for duty and 

quota-free treatment for certain textile 

and apparel articles imported from 

designated Andean Trade Promotion 

and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) 

beneficiary countries. Section 

204(b)(3)(B)(iii) of the amended ATPA 

provides duty- and quota-free treatment 

for certain apparel articles assembled in 

ATPDEA beneficiary countries from 

regional fabric and components, subject 

to quantitative limitation. More 

specifically, this provision applies to 

apparel articles sewn or otherwise 

assembled in one or more ATPDEA 

beneficiary countries from fabrics or 

from fabric components formed or from 

components knit-to-shape, in one or 

more ATPDEA beneficiary countries, 

from yarns wholly formed in the United 

States or one or more ATPDEA 

beneficiary countries (including fabrics 

not formed from yarns, if such fabrics 

are classifiable under heading 5602 and 

5603 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 

(HTS) and are formed in one or more 

ATPDEA beneficiary countries). Such 

apparel articles may also contain certain 

other eligible fabrics, fabric 

components, or components knit-toshape. 

Title VII of the Tax Relief and Health 

Care Act (TRHCA) of 2006, Public Law 

107–432, extended the expiration of the 

ATPA to June 30, 2007. See Section 

7002(a) of the TRHCA 2006. H.R. 1830, 

110th Cong. (2007), further extended the 

expiration of the ATPA to February 29, 

2008. H.R. 5264, 110th Cong. (2008), 

further extended the expiration of the 

ATPA to December 31, 2008. H.R. 7222, 

110th Cong. (2008), further extended the 

expiration of the ATPA to December 31, 

2009. H.R 4284, 111th Cong. (2009), 

further extended the expiration of the 

ATPA to December 31, 2010. H.R 6517, 

111th Cong. (2010), further extended the 

expiration of the ATPA to February 12, 

2011. H.R 3078, 112th Cong. (2011), 

further extended the expiration of the 

ATPA to July 31, 2013. 

For the period beginning on October 

1, 2012 and extending through July 31, 

2013, preferential tariff treatment is 

limited under the regional fabric 

provision to imports of qualifying 

apparel articles in an amount not to 

exceed 5 percent of the aggregate square 

meter equivalents of all apparel articles 

imported into the United States in the 

preceding 12-month period for which 

data are available. The 12-month period 

for which data are available is the 12- 

month period that ended July 31, 2012. 

This quantity is calculated using the 

aggregate square meter equivalents of all 

apparel articles imported into the 

United States, derived from the set of 

Harmonized System lines listed in the 

Annex to the World Trade Organization 

Agreement on Textiles and Clothing 

(ATC), and the conversion factors for 

units of measure into square meter 

equivalents used by the United States in 

implementing the ATC. In Presidential 

Proclamation 7616 (published in the 

Federal Register on November 5, 2002, 

67 FR 67283), the President directed 

CITA to publish in the Federal Register 

the aggregate quantity of imports 

allowed during each period. 

The purpose of this notice is to extend 

the period of the quantitative limitation 

for preferential tariff treatment under 

the regional fabric provision for imports 

of qualifying apparel articles from 

Ecuador through July 31, 2013. For the 

period beginning on October 1, 2012 

and extending through July 31, 2013, 

the aggregate quantity of imports 

eligible for preferential treatment under 

the regional fabric provision is 

1,341,030,128 square meters equivalent. 

Apparel articles entered in excess of this 

quantity will be subject to otherwise 

applicable tariffs. 

Kim Glas, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24137 Filed 9–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Limitations of Duty- and Quota-Free 

Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled 

in Beneficiary Sub-Saharan African 

Countries from Regional and ThirdCountry Fabric 

AGENCY: Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA). 

ACTION: Publishing the new 12-month 

cap on duty- and quota-free benefits. 

DATES: Effective October 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don 

Niewiaroski, Jr., International Trade 

Specialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–2496. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority: 

Title I, Section 112(b)(3) of the Trade 

and Development Act of 2000 (TDA 

2000), Public Law 106–200, as amended 

by Division B, Title XXI, section 3108 of 

the Trade Act of 2002, Public Law 107– 

210; Section 7(b)(2) of the AGOA 

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