[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 136 (Monday, July 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 42710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15255]


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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; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests Under the 
Commercial Availability Provision of the United States-Peru Trade 
Promotion Agreement Implementation Act

    On behalf of the Committee of the Implementation for Textile 
Agreements (CITA), 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 April 29, 2022 during 
a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days 
for public comments.
    Agency: Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.
    Title: Interim Procedures for Considering Requests under the 
Commercial Availability Provision of the United States-Peru Trade 
Promotion Agreement Implementation Act.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0265.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, extension of a current 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 16 (10 for Requests; 3 for Responses; 3 for 
Rebuttals).
    Average Hours per Response: 8 hours per Request; 2 hours per 
Response; and 1 hour per Rebuttal.
    Burden Hours: 89.
    Needs and Uses:
    The United States and Peru negotiated the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion 
Agreement (``the Agreement''), which entered into force on February 1, 
2009. Subject to the rules of origin in Annex 4.1 of the Agreement, 
pursuant to the textile provisions of the Agreement, a fabric, yarn, or 
fiber produced in Peru or the United States and traded between the two 
countries is entitled to duty-free tariff treatment. Annex 3-B of the 
Agreement also lists specific fabrics, yarns, and fibers that the two 
countries agreed are not available in commercial quantities in a timely 
manner from producers in Peru or the United States. The items listed in 
Annex 3-B are commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers. 
Articles containing these items are entitled to duty-free or 
preferential treatment despite containing inputs not produced in Peru 
or the United States.
    The list of commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers may 
be changed pursuant to the commercial availability provision in Chapter 
3, Article 3.3, Paragraphs 5-7 of the Agreement. Section 203(o) of the 
Act implements the commercial availability provision of the Agreement. 
Under this provision, interested entities from Peru or the United 
States have the right to request that a specific fabric, yarn, or fiber 
be added to, or removed from, the list of commercially unavailable 
fabrics, yarns, and fibers in Annex 3-B.
    Section 203(o) of the Act provides that the President may modify 
the list of fabrics, yarns, and fibers in Annex 3-B by determining 
whether additional fabrics, yarns, or fibers are not available in 
commercial quantities in a timely manner in the United States or Peru, 
and that the President will issue procedures governing the submission 
of requests and providing an opportunity for interested entities to 
submit comments. The President delegated the responsibility for 
publishing the procedures and administering commercial availability 
requests to CITA, which issues procedures and acts on requests through 
the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) 
(See Proclamation No. 8341, 74 FR 4105, Jan. 22, 2009). Interim 
procedures to implement these responsibilities were published in the 
Federal Register on August 14, 2009. (See Interim Procedures for 
Considering Requests Under the Commercial Availability Provision of the 
United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act and 
Estimate of Burden for Collection of Information, 74 FR 41111, Aug. 14, 
2009) (``Commercial Availability Procedures'').
    The intent of the Commercial Availability Procedures is to foster 
the use of U.S. and regional products by implementing procedures that 
allow products to be placed on or removed from a product list, on a 
timely basis, and in a manner that is consistent with normal business 
practice. The procedures are intended to facilitate the transmission of 
requests; allow the market to indicate the availability of the supply 
of products that are the subject of requests; make available promptly, 
to interested entities and the public, information regarding the 
requests for products and offers received for those products; ensure 
wide participation by interested entities and parties; allow for 
careful review and consideration of information provided to 
substantiate requests and responses; and provide timely public 
dissemination of information used by CITA in making commercial 
availability determinations.
    CITA must collect certain information about fabric, yarn, or fiber 
technical specifications and the production capabilities of Peruvian 
and U.S. textile producers to determine whether certain fabrics, yarns, 
or fibers are available in commercial quantities in a timely manner in 
the United States or Peru, subject to Section 203(o) of the Act.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Frequency: Varies.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Section 203(o) of the U.S.-Peru TPA and 
Proclamation No. 8341, 74 FR 4105 (Jan. 22, 2009).
    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 0625-0265.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-15255 Filed 7-15-22; 8:45 am]
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