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(202) 395–6186. Appointments must be 

scheduled at least 48 hours in advance. 

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. 05–18278 Filed 9–13–05; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Generalized System of Preferences 

(GSP) Program: Notice Regarding the 

2005 and Ongoing Country Practice 

Reviews 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

timetable for the hearing and public 

comments on petitions requesting 

modifications in the status of certain 

GSP beneficiary countries. 

DATES: The GSP regulations (15 CFR 

part 2007) provide the schedule of dates 

for conducting the annual country 

practice review unless otherwise 

specified in a Federal Register notice. 

The current revised schedule follows. 

Notification of any other changes will be 

given in the Federal Register. 

Notice of Public Hearing 

A hearing will be held by the GSP 

Subcommittee of the TPSC on 

November 30, 2005, beginning at 10 

a.m., in combined Rooms 1 and 2, 1724 

F Street NW., Washington, DC. The 

hearing will be open to the public and 

a transcript of the hearing will be made 

available for public inspection or can be 

purchased from the reporting company. 

No electronic media coverage will be 

allowed. 

All interested parties wishing to make 

an oral presentation at the hearing must 

submit, following the ‘‘Requirements for 

Submissions’’ below, the name, address, 

telephone number, and facsimile 

number and e-mail address, if available, 

of the witness(es) representing their 

organization to Marideth Sandler, 

Executive Director of the GSP Program 

and Chairman of the GSP Subcommittee 

of the TPSC by 5 p.m., November 9, 

2005. Requests to present oral testimony 

in connection with the public hearing 

must be accompanied by a written brief 

or statement, in English, and also must 

be received by 5 p.m., November 9, 

2005. Oral testimony before the GSP 

Subcommittee of the TPSC will be 

limited to five-minute presentations that 

summarize or supplement information 

contained in briefs or statements 

submitted for the record. Post-hearing 

briefs or statements will be accepted if 

they conform with the regulations cited 

below and are submitted, in English, by 

5 p.m., December 14, 2005. Parties not 

wishing to appear at the public hearing 

may submit post-hearing written briefs 

or statements, in English, by 5 p.m., 

December 14, 2005. 

Modifications to the list of countries 

eligible for GSP benefits resulting from 

the 2005 Annual Review of Country 

Practice Cases will be announced on or 

about June 30, 2006, in the Federal 

Register, and any changes will take 

effect on the effective date announced. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

GSP Subcommittee, Office of the United 

States Trade Representative, 1724 F 

Street, NW., Room F–220, Washington, 

DC 20508. Telephone number is (202) 

395–6971; fax number is (202) 395–

9481. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GSP 

statute, Title V of the Trade Act of 1974 

(19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.) provides dutyfree treatment to designated eligible 

articles that are imported from 

designated beneficiary developing 

countries. USTR has received a number 

of petitions requesting that certain 

practices in certain beneficiary 

developing countries be reviewed to 

determine whether such countries are in 

compliance with the eligibility criteria 

set forth in sections 502(b) and 502(c) of 

the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2462(a), 

2462(b), and 2462(c)). 

Petitions Accepted for Review 

Regarding Country Practices 

Pursuant to 15 CFR 2007.0(b), the GSP 

Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee (TPSC) has recommended, 

and the TPSC has accepted, certain 

country practice petitions (see Annex A) 

to be included in the 2005 Annual 

Review. Acceptance of a petition for 

review is not indicative of the ultimate 

disposition of the petition. Acceptance 

indicates only that the listed petitions 

warrant further consideration. 

Opportunities for Public Comment 

The GSP Subcommittee of the TPSC 

invites comments in support of or in 

opposition to any petition that have 

been accepted for review. Submissions 

should comply with 15 CFR Part 2007, 

except as modified below. 

Requirements for Submission 

In order to facilitate prompt 

processing of submissions, USTR will 

accept only electronic e-mail 

submissions in response to this notice. 

Hand-delivered submissions will not be 

accepted. These submissions should be 

single-copy transmissions in English 

with the total submission not to exceed 

20 single-spaced standard letter-size 

pages. E-mail submissions should use 

the following subject line: ‘‘2005 GSP 

Annual Country Practice Review’’

followed by the subject country, case 

number, and, as appropriate ‘‘Written 

Comments’’, ‘‘Notice of Intent to 

Testify’’, ‘‘Pre-hearing brief’’, or ‘‘Posthearing brief’’. Documents must be 

submitted in English in one of the 

following formats: MSWord (.DOC), 

WordPerfect (.WPD), or text (.TXT) files. 

Documents may not be submitted as 

electronic image files or contain 

imbedded images (for example, ‘‘.JPG’’, 

‘‘.TIF’’, ‘‘.PDF’’, ‘‘.BMP’’, or ‘‘.GIF’’). 

Supporting documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets are acceptable as Excel 

files, formatted for printing on 81⁄2 x 11 

inch paper. Any data attachments to the 

submission must be included in the 

same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

If the submission contains business 

confidential information, a nonconfidential version of the submission 

must also be submitted that indicates 

where confidential information was 

redacted by inserting asterisks where 

material was deleted. In addition, the 

confidential submission must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’

at the top and bottom of each page of the 

document. The non-confidential version 

must also be clearly marked at the top 

and bottom of each page (either 

‘‘PUBLIC VERSION’’ or ‘‘NONCONFIDENTIAL’’). Documents that are 

submitted without any marking might 

not be accepted or will be considered 

public documents. 

For any document containing 

business confidential information 

submitted as an electronic attached file 

to an e-mail transmission, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘BC-’’, 

and the file name of the public version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘P-’’. 

The ‘‘P-’’ or ‘‘BC-’’ should be followed 

by the name of the party (government, 

company, union, association, etc.) 

which is making the submission. 

E-mail submissions should not 

include separate cover letters or 

messages in the message area of the email; information that might appear in 

any cover letter should be included 

directly in the attached file containing 

the submission itself, including the 

sender’s e-mail address and other 

identifying information. The e-mail 

address for these submissions is 

FR0441@USTR.GOV. Documents not 

submitted in accordance with these 

instructions might not be considered in 

this review. If unable to provide 

submissions by e-mail, please contact 

the GSP Subcommittee of the TPSC to 

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arrange for an alternative method of 

transmission. 

Public versions of all documents 

relating to this review will be available 

for review approximately two weeks 

after the relevant due date by 

appointment in the USTR public 

reading room, 1724 F Street NW., 

Washington, DC. Appointments may be 

made from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. 

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, by 

calling (202) 395–6186. 

Marideth J. Sandler, 

Executive Director, Generalized System of 

Preferences (GSP) Program, Office of the U.S. 

Trade Representative. 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Identification of Countries Under 

Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974: 

Request for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Request for written submissions 

from the public. 

SUMMARY: Section 182 of the Trade Act 

of 1974 (Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2242), 

requires the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) to identify 

countries that deny adequate and 

effective protection of intellectual 

property rights or deny fair and 

equitable market access to U.S. persons 

who rely on intellectual property 

protection. Section 182 is commonly 

referred to as the ‘‘Special 301’’

provision of the Trade Act. In addition, 

USTR is required to determine which of 

those countries should be identified as 

Priority Foreign Countries. On April 30, 

2005, USTR announced the results of 

the 2005 Special 301 review and stated 

that Out-of-Cycle Reviews (OCRs) 

would be conducted for Ukraine and 

Saudi Arabia. USTR will conduct these 

OCRs in the fall of 2005. USTR requests 

written comments from the public 

concerning the acts, policies, and 

practices relevant for this review under 

Section 182 of the Trade Act. 

DATES: Submissions must be received on 

or before 5 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Sybia Harrison, Special 

Assistant to the Section 301 Committee, 

and sent (i) electronically, to 

FR0526@ustr.gov, with ‘‘Special 301 

Out-of-Cycle Review: Ukraine and Saudi 

Arabia’’ in the subject line, or (ii) by fax, 

to (202) 395–9458, with a confirmation 

copy sent electronically to the e-mail 

address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Choe Groves, Director for 

Intellectual Property and Chair of the 

Special 301 Committee, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, 

(202) 395–4510. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 182 of the Trade Act, USTR 

must identify those countries that deny 

adequate and effective protection for 

intellectual property rights or deny fair 

and equitable market access to U.S. 

persons who rely on intellectual 

property protection. Those countries 

that have the most onerous or egregious 

acts, policies, or practices and whose 

acts, policies, or practices have the 

greatest adverse impact (actual or 

potential) on relevant U.S. products may 

be identified as Priority Foreign 

Countries. Acts, policies, or practices 

that are the basis of a country’s 

designation as a Priority Foreign 

Country are normally the subject of an 

investigation under the Section 301 

provisions of the Trade Act. 


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