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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of the President’s major disaster 

declaration for Private Non-Profit 

organizations in the State of 

Washington, dated 03/29/2022, is 

hereby amended to include the 

following areas as adversely affected by 

the disaster. 

Primary Counties: Chelan, Clallam, 

Okanogan. 

All other information in the original 

declaration remains unchanged. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 59008) 

Joshua Barnes, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket Number USTR–2022–0005] 

Request for Comments on Proposed 

U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century 

Trade 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative (USTR). 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: On June 1, 2022, the United 

States and Taiwan, under the auspices 

of the American Institute in Taiwan 

(AIT) and the Taipei Economic and 

Cultural Representative Office in the 

United States (TECRO), respectively, 

launched the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 

21st-Century Trade. The purpose of this 

trade initiative is to develop concrete 

ways to deepen the trade relationship 

between the United States and Taiwan, 

beginning with the two sides working 

under the auspices of AIT and TECRO 

to develop a roadmap for negotiations 

for reaching agreements in several 

specified trade areas, which are 

identified below. The Office of the 

United States Trade Representative 

(USTR) will lead the U.S. side as AIT’s 

designated representative. Accordingly, 

USTR is seeking public comments on 

matters relevant to the specified trade 

areas, including U.S. interests and 

priorities, in order to develop 

negotiating objectives and positions. 

You can provide comments in writing. 

DATES: The deadline for the submission 

of written comments is July 8, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You should submit written 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov (Regulations.gov). 

Follow the instructions for submissions 

in parts II and III below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

procedural questions concerning written 

comments, please contact Spencer 

Smith at Spencer.L.Smith2@ustr.eop.gov 

or (202) 395–2974 in advance of the 

deadline and before transmitting a 

comment. Direct all other questions to 

Jing Jing Zhang, Deputy Director for 

China Affairs, at Yizhi.Zhang@

ustr.eop.gov, or (202) 395–9534. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On June 1, 2022, USTR announced 

that the United States and Taiwan, 

under the auspices of AIT and TECRO, 

had decided to launch the U.S.-Taiwan 

Initiative on 21st-Century Trade. The 

purpose of this trade initiative is to 

develop concrete ways to deepen the 

trade relationship between the United 

States and Taiwan, beginning with the 

two sides working under the auspices of 

AIT and TECRO to develop an 

ambitious roadmap for negotiations for 

reaching one or more agreements with 

high-standard commitments and 

economically meaningful outcomes in 

several specified trade areas, which 

include: 

Trade facilitation. The United States 

and Taiwan seek to harness best 

practices with respect to facilitating 

trade, including accelerated 

implementation of the WTO’s Trade 

Facilitation Agreement, adopting 

provisions on digitalization of trade 

facilitation measures, and ensuring 

inclusivity in accessing customs 

procedures. In addition, the two sides 

intend to explore negotiating provisions 

on electronic payments, risk 

management, protection of trader 

information, and support for small and 

medium enterprises’ (SME) access to 

technology used for the clearance of 

goods. 

Regulatory practices. The United 

States and Taiwan hold shared values of 

good governance and respect for the rule 

of law and believe in the adoption of 

provisions supporting sound, 

transparent regulatory practices, 

including timely online accessibility to 

information about regulations and 

regulatory processes, adequate time for 

public consultations and consideration 

of comments, and ensuring that 

regulatory decisions are based on high 

quality information, science, and 

evidence. The two sides would also seek 

to explore the possibility of provisions 

on transparency and good governance in 

services. 

Agriculture. The United States and 

Taiwan intend to explore provisions to 

facilitate agricultural trade through 

science and risk-based decision making 

and through the adoption of sound, 

transparent regulatory practices. 

Anti-corruption. The United States 

and Taiwan seek to develop strong anticorruption standards to prevent and 

combat bribery and corruption. The two 

sides intend to explore negotiating 

provisions that preclude the tax 

deductibility of bribes and establish 

measures regarding the recovery of 

proceeds of corruption and the denial of 

a safe haven for foreign public officials 

who engage in corruption. 

Supporting SMEs in trade. The United 

States and Taiwan aim to support and 

enhance U.S.-Taiwan SME trade, by 

collaborating to identify and overcome 

barriers to trade for SMEs, focusing on 

trade facilitation for SMEs, sharing and 

promoting best practices, and working 

together on activities to promote and 

support SMEs, including those owned 

by under-represented groups and 

women entrepreneurs, and those in 

disadvantaged communities. 

Harnessing the benefits of digital 

trade. The United States and Taiwan 

seek to advance outcomes in digital 

trade that benefit workers, consumers, 

and businesses, including SMEs. Both 

sides believe in building consumer trust 

in the digital economy, promoting 

access to information, facilitating use of 

digital technologies, promoting resilient 

and secure digital infrastructure, and 

addressing discriminatory and tradedistortive practices in the digital 

economy. 

Promoting worker-centric trade. The 

United States and Taiwan aim to work 

to develop more durable and inclusive 

trade policies that demonstrate that 

trade can be a force for good by creating 

more opportunities for people and 

promoting gender equity across the 

United States and Taiwan. The two 

sides also seek to support the protection 

of labor rights, including the 

elimination of forced labor in global 

supply chains. 

Supporting the environment and 

climate action. The United States and 

Taiwan seek to deepen their cooperation 

and joint approaches on trade and the 

environment, including promoting 

decarbonizing our economies consistent 

with COP26 outcomes, exchanging 

information, and supporting businesses, 

green jobs, and the growth of lowcarbon economies. 

Standards. The United States and 

Taiwan intend to explore provisions 

consistent with their shared view that 


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the preparation, adoption, and 

application of standards, technical 

regulations, and conformity assessment 

procedures should be nondiscriminatory, should not create 

unnecessary barriers to trade, and 

should serve legitimate policy 

objectives. The two sides also recognize 

the important role that international 

standards can play in supporting greater 

regulatory alignment and good 

regulatory practices and in promoting 

resilience in trade. 

State-owned enterprises. The United 

States and Taiwan recognize the 

significant distortions that can occur to 

international trade and investment from 

non-market practices of state-owned and 

state-controlled enterprises as well as 

government designated monopolies. The 

two sides seek to develop provisions to 

create a level playing field for workers 

and businesses when competing against 

these entities in the international 

marketplace, including by ensuring that 

these entities act in a commercial 

manner, are regulated impartially, and 

do not provide or receive tradedistorting non-commercial assistance. 

Non-market policies and practices. 

The United States and Taiwan are 

market-oriented economies and 

understand the harm that can be caused 

by trade partners that deploy nonmarket policies and practices, which 

threaten the livelihoods of their people 

and harm their workers and businesses. 

We intend to collaborate on ways to 

address these harmful non-market 

policies and practices. 

The United States will build upon 

high-standard trade commitments and 

develop new approaches in trade policy 

to advance a broad set of workercentered priorities and promote durable, 

broad-based economic growth for the 

United States and Taiwan. At this time, 

the Administration is not seeking to 

address tariff barriers. 

II. Public Comment 

The Trade Policy Staff Committee 

(TPSC) invites interested parties to 

submit comments to assist USTR as it 

develops negotiating objectives and 

positions for the agreements 

contemplated by the U.S.-Taiwan 

Initiative on 21st-Century Trade. In 

particular, the TPSC invites interested 

parties to comment on issues that USTR 

should address in any negotiations, 

including the following: 

1. General negotiating objectives for 

the contemplated agreements. 

2. Customs and trade facilitation 

issues. 

3. Transparency and good regulatory 

practice issues; 

4. Agriculture-related matters. 

5. Anti-corruption-related matters. 

6. Issues of particular relevance to 

small and medium-sized enterprises 

that should be addressed in the 

negotiations. 

7. Digital economy-related matters. 

8. Labor-related matters. 

9. Environment- and climate-related 

matters. 

10. Matters related to standards, 

technical regulations, and conformity 

assessment procedures. 

11. Issues related to state-owned 

enterprises and designated monopolies. 

12. Matters related to collaboration to 

address non-market policies and 

practices. 

13. Other measures or practices that 

undermine fair market opportunities for 

U.S. workers, farmers, ranchers, and 

businesses. 

USTR requests small businesses 

(generally defined by the Small 

Business Administration as firms with 

fewer than 500 employees) or 

organizations representing small 

business members that submit 

comments to self-identify as such, so 

that we may be aware of issues of 

particular interest to small businesses. 

III. Submission Instructions 

Persons submitting written comments 

must do so in English and must identify 

on the first page of the submission 

‘‘Comments Regarding U.S.-Taiwan 

Initiative on 21st-Century Trade.’’ 

The submission deadline is July 6, 

2022. USTR strongly encourages 

commenters to make online 

submissions, using Regulations.gov. To 

submit comments via Regulations.gov, 

enter docket number USTR–2022–0005 

on the home page and click ‘search.’ 

The site will provide a search-results 

page listing all documents associated 

with this docket. Find a reference to this 

notice and click on the link entitled 

‘Comment Now’ For further information 

on using Regulations.gov, please consult 

the resources provided on the website 

by clicking on ‘How to Use This Site’ on 

the left side of the home page. 

Regulations.gov allows users to 

submit comments by filling in a ‘type 

comment’ field, or by attaching a 

document using an ‘upload file’ field. 

USTR prefers that you provide 

comments in an attached document. 

USTR prefers submissions in Microsoft 

Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). If 

you use an application other than those 

two, please indicate the name of the 

application in the ‘type comment’ field. 

Filers submitting comments 

containing no business confidential 

information (BCI) should name their file 

using the name of the person or entity 

submitting the comments. For any 

comments submitted electronically 

containing BCI, the file name of the 

business confidential version should 

begin with the characters ‘BCI.’ Clearly 

mark any page containing BCI with 

‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’ on the top 

of that page. Filers of submissions 

containing BCI also must submit a 

public version of their comments that 

USTR will place in the docket for public 

inspection. The file name of the public 

version should begin with the character 

‘P.’ Follow the ‘BCI’ and ‘P’ with the 

name of the person or entity submitting 

the comments. 

Please do not attach separate cover 

letters to electronic submissions; rather, 

include any information that might 

appear in a cover letter in the comments 

themselves. Similarly, to the extent 

possible, please include any exhibits, 

annexes, or other attachments in the 

same file as the submission itself, not as 

separate files. 

As noted, USTR strongly urges that 

you file comments through 

Regulations.gov. 

You must make any alternative 

arrangements with Spencer Smith at 

Spencer.L.Smith2@ustr.eop.gov or (202) 

395–2974 before transmitting a 

comment and in advance of the 

deadline. 

USTR will post comments in the 

docket for public inspection, except 

properly designated BCI. You can view 

comments on the Regulations.gov by 

entering docket number USTR–2022– 

0005 in the search field on the home 

page. General information concerning 

USTR is available at https://

www.ustr.gov. 

William Shpiece, 

Chair of the Trade Policy Staff Committee, 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of Aviation Rulemaking 

Advisory Committee (ARAC) meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the ARAC. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 2 to 4 

p.m. Eastern Time. Requests to attend 

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