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expect to incur regular charges for calls 

they initiate over wireless lines, 

according to their wireless plan. The 

Commission will not refund any 

incurred charges. Callers will incur no 

charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Closed captioning 

will be available for individuals who are 

deaf, hard of hearing, or who have 

certain cognitive or learning 

impairments. To request additional 

accommodations, please email Liliana 

Schiller, Support Services Specialist, at 

lschiller@usccr.gov at least 10 business 

days prior to the meeting. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office within 30 days following 

the meeting. Written comments may be 

emailed to Melissa Wojnaroski at 

mwojnaroski@usccr.gov. Persons who 

desire additional information may 

contact the Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit at (202) 618–4158. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Regional Programs Coordination Unit 

Office, as they become available, both 

before and after the meeting. Records of 

the meetings will be available via the 

file sharing website, www.box.com. 

Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s website, http://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Regional Programs Coordination Unit at 

the above phone number. 

Agenda 

I. Welcome & Roll Call

II. Committee Discussion

III. Public Comment

IV. Next Steps

V. Adjournment

Dated: December 16, 2024.

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30243 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Nebraska Advisory Committee to the 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act that 

the Nebraska Advisory Committee 

(Committee) to the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights will hold a series of 

business meetings via web conference. 

The purpose of the meetings will be to 

discuss their draft report on the effects 

of the Covid-19 pandemic on education 

in the state. 

DATES: 

• Thursday, February 6, 2025 from 4

p.m.–5 p.m. central time.

• Tuesday, March 4, 2025 from 4 p.m.–

5 p.m. central time

• Thursday, April 3, 2025 from 4 p.m.–

5 p.m. central time

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held 

via Zoom. 

February 6th Meeting 

• Registration Link (Audio Visual):

https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/

register/WN_ePD_8E-bSZSbv6R

G7RsNew 

• Join by Phone (Audio Only): 1–833–

435–1820 USA Toll Free; Meeting ID:

160 114 7853

March 4th Meeting 

• Registration Link (Audio/Visual):

https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/

register/WN_a0Co6z3US3i

WJ1qcj2QvsA 

• Join by Phone (Audio Only): 1–833–

435–1820 USA Toll Free; Meeting ID:

160 672 3280

April 3rd Meeting: 

• Registration Link (Audio/Visual):

https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/

register/WN_oBCDpo3dQNCF9GT1BKlhw 

• Join by Phone (Audio Only): 1–833–

435–1820 USA Toll Free; Meeting ID:

161 670 2601

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Victoria Moreno, DFO, at vmoreno@

usccr.gov or by phone at 434–515–0204. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the public may listen to the 

discussions through the above call-in 

numbers (audio only) or online 

registration links (audio/visual). An 

open comment period at each meeting 

will be provided to allow members of 

the public to make a statement as time 

allows. Callers can expect to incur 

regular charges for calls they initiate 

over wireless lines, according to their 

wireless plan. The Commission will not 

refund any incurred charges. Callers 

will incur no charge for calls they 

initiate over land-line connections to 

the toll-free telephone number. 

Individuals who are deaf, deafblind, 

and/or hard of hearing may also follow 

the proceedings by first calling the 

Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877– 

8339 and providing the Service with the 

conference call number and meeting ID 

number. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office within 30 days following 

the meetings. Written comments may be 

emailed to Victoria at vmoreno@

usccr.gov. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Regional Programs Unit Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meetings. Records of the meetings 

will be available via 

www.facadatabase.gov under the 

Commission on Civil Rights, Nebraska 

Advisory Committee link. Persons 

interested in the work of this Committee 

are directed to the Commission’s 

website, http://www.usccr.gov, or may 

contact the Regional Programs Unit at 

the above email or street address. 

Agenda 

I. Welcome and Roll Call

II. Chair’s Comments

III. Committee Business

IV. Public Comment

V. Adjournment

Dated: December 16, 2024.

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30291 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of 

Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti 

Under the Caribbean Basin Economic 

Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended 

by the Haitian Hemispheric 

Opportunity Through Partnership 

Encouragement Act (HOPE) 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of Annual 

Quantitative Limit on Imports of Certain 

Apparel from Haiti. 

SUMMARY: CBERA, as amended, 

provides duty-free treatment for certain 

apparel articles imported directly from 

Haiti. One of the preferences is known 

as the ‘‘value-added’’ provision, which 

requires that apparel meet a minimum 

threshold percentage of value added in 

Haiti, the United States, and/or certain 

beneficiary countries. The provision is 

subject to a quantitative limitation, 

which is calculated as a percentage of 

total apparel imports into the United 

States for each 12-month period. For the 

period from December 20, 2024 through 

December 19, 2025, the quantity of 


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1See Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from 

the People’s Republic of China and the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Countervailing 

Duty Investigations, 89 FR 87556 (November 4, 

2024) (Initiation Notice). 

2The petitioners are Genera, Tellus Products, 

LLC, and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, 

Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial 

and Service Workers International Union, AFL– 

CIO. 

3See Petitioners’ Letters, ‘‘Request to Extend the 

Deadline for the Preliminary Determination,’’ dated 

December 6, 2024. 

4 Id. 

imports eligible for preferential 

treatment under the value-added 

provision is 322,927,229 square meters 

equivalent. 

DATES: The new limitations become 

applicable December 20, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kayla Johnson, International Trade 

Specialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–2532. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 213A of the 

Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act 

(19 U.S.C. 2703a) (‘‘CBERA’’), as 

amended; and as implemented by 

Presidential Proc. No. 8114, 72 FR 

13655 (March 22, 2007), and No. 8596, 

75 FR 68153 (November 4, 2010). 

Background: Section 213A(b)(1)(B) of 

CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 

2703a(b)(1)(B)), outlines the 

requirements for certain apparel articles 

imported directly from Haiti to qualify 

for duty-free treatment under a ‘‘valueadded’’ provision. In order to qualify for 

duty-free treatment, apparel articles 

must be wholly assembled, or knit-toshape, in Haiti from any combination of 

fabrics, fabric components, components 

knit-to-shape, and yarns, as long as the 

sum of the cost or value of materials 

produced in Haiti or one or more 

beneficiary countries, as described in 

CBERA, as amended, or any 

combination thereof, plus the direct 

costs of processing operations 

performed in Haiti or one or more 

beneficiary countries, as described in 

CBERA, as amended, or any 

combination thereof, is not less than an 

applicable percentage of the declared 

customs value of such apparel articles. 

Pursuant to CBERA, as amended, the 

applicable percentage for the period 

December 20, 2024 through December 

19, 2025, is 60 percent. 

For every twelve-month period 

following the effective date of CBERA, 

as amended, duty-free treatment under 

the value-added provision is subject to 

a quantitative limitation. CBERA, as 

amended, provides that the quantitative 

limitation will be recalculated for each 

subsequent 12-month period. Section 

213A(b)(1)(C) of CBERA, as amended 

(19 U.S.C. 2703a(b)(1)(C)), requires that, 

for the twelve-month period beginning 

on December 20, 2024, the quantitative 

limitation for qualifying apparel 

imported from Haiti under the valueadded provision will be an amount 

equivalent to 1.25 percent of the 

aggregate square meter equivalent of all 

apparel articles imported into the 

United States in the most recent 12- 

month period for which data are 

available. The aggregate square meters 

equivalent of all apparel articles 

imported into the United States is 

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. For purposes of 

this notice, the most recent 12-month 

period for which data are available as of 

December 20, 2024 is the 12-month 

period ending on October 31, 2024. 

Therefore, for the one-year period 

beginning on December 20, 2024 and 

extending through December 19, 2025, 

the quantity of imports eligible for 

preferential treatment under the valueadded provision is 322,927,229 square 

meters equivalent. Apparel articles 

entered in excess of these quantities will 

be subject to otherwise applicable 

tariffs. 

Tyler Beckelman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles, 

Consumer Goods, Materials Industries, 

Critical Minerals and Metals. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30072 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–183, C–552–846] 

Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products 

From the People’s Republic of China 

and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigations 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Applicable December 19, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Cossaart (the People’s Republic 

of China) and Thomas Martin (Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam), AD/CVD 

Operations, OIV, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 

(202) 482–0462 and at (202) 482–3936, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 28, 2024, the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (Commerce) 

initiated a countervailing duty (CVD) 

investigation of imports of 

thermoformed molded fiber products 

(molded fiber products) from the 

People’s Republic of China (China) and 

the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

(Vietnam).1 Currently, the preliminary 

determinations are due no later than 

January 2, 2025. 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination 

Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), requires 

Commerce to issue the preliminary 

determination in a CVD investigation 

within 65 days after the date on which 

Commerce initiated the investigation. 

However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act 

permits Commerce to postpone the 

preliminary determination until no later 

than 130 days after the date on which 

Commerce initiated the investigation if: 

(A) the petitioners 2 makes a timely 

request for a postponement; or (B) 

Commerce concludes that the parties 

concerned are cooperating, that the 

investigation is extraordinarily 

complicated, and that additional time is 

necessary to make a preliminary 

determination. Under 19 CFR 

351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a 

request for postponement 25 days or 

more before the scheduled date of the 

preliminary determination and must 

state the reasons for the request. 

Commerce will grant the request unless 

it finds compelling reasons to deny the 

request. 

On December 6, 2024, the petitioners 

submitted a timely request that 

Commerce postpone the preliminary 

determination in these investigations.3

The petitioners stated that they request 

postponement to extend the deadline for 

the preliminary determinations in order 

to have an adequate opportunity to 

review the questionnaire responses of 

respondents and submit rebuttal factual 

information, and give Commerce 

adequate time to review the data 

provided in the questionnaire responses 

and issue supplemental questionnaires 

prior to its issuance of the preliminary 

determinations.4

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.205(e), the petitioners submitted 

their request for postponement of the 

preliminary determinations in these 

investigations 25 days or more before 


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