71268 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 227 / Monday, November 28, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: November 22, 2005. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Release From Embargo of Certain 

Chinese Textiles and Apparel Goods 

That Were Entered for Warehouse, 

Sent to General Order, or Admitted to 

a Foreign Trade Zone, Before 

November 8, 2005 

AGENCY: Committee for the 

Implementation of Textiles Agreements 

(CITA). 

ACTION: Directive to Commissioner, 

Bureau of Customs and Border 

Protection. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 28, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Philip J. Martello, International Trade 

Specialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–3400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural 

Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); 

Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as 

amended. 

Pursuant to the Memorandum of 

Understanding between the 

Governments of the United States of 

America and the People’s Republic of 

China Concerning Trade in Textile and 

Apparel Products, signed and dated 

November 8, 2005 (‘‘Memorandum of 

Understanding’’), CITA directs the U.S. 

Bureau of Customs and Border 

Protection to allow entry of certain 

goods in embargo. 

In the letter published below, the 

Chairman of CITA directs the 

Commissioner, U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection, to allow entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, from November 28 

through December 2, 2005, of all 

Chinese origin goods that (1) currently 

are in a bonded warehouse within the 

customs territory of the United States or 

in a foreign trade zone established 

under the Foreign Trade Zones Act of 

1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a, et 

seq.); (2) were entered for warehouse or 

sent to General Order within the 

customs territory of the United States, or 

admitted to a foreign trade zone 

established under the Foreign Trade 

Zones Act of 1934, as amended, before 

November 8, 2005; and (3) were, at the 

time of export from China, subject to a 

quantitative restraint for one of the 

categories listed below, due to the 

application of Paragraph 242 of the 

Report of the Working Party for the 

Accession of China to the World Trade 

Organization. 

Category Restraint period 

338/339 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

347/348 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

352/652 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

638/639 .......... May 27, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

647/648 .......... May 27, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

This release of certain embargoed 

goods excludes socks in categories 332/ 

432/632part. See Memorandum of 

Understanding at n.3. Shipments 

allowed entry pursuant to the directive 

below will not be subject to staged entry 

limits. 

Any other shipments of goods from 

China subject to the quantitative 

restraints for the categories and restraint 

periods above, or to other quantitative 

restraints for goods exported from China 

prior to January 1, 2006, shall remain 

subject to the restraints previously 

established, and to staged entry 

procedures as laid out in the directives 

dated April 21, 2005, and November 4, 

2005. This includes socks and other 

categories not listed above, and any 

shipment exported from China on or 

after November 8, 2005. Shipments of 

any Chinese-origin textile or apparel 

goods exported before January 1, 2006 

are not subject to the quantitative 

restraints established in Annex I of the 

Memorandum of Understanding of 

November 8, 2005. CITA will publish 

instructions to the U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection concerning those 

restraints in a separate notice. 

Dated: November 23, 2005. 

James C. Leonard III, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements. 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements 

Commissioner, Bureau of Customs and 

Border Protection, Washington, DC 

20229 

Dear Commissioner: Pursuant to the 

Memorandum of Understanding 

between the Governments of the United 

States of America and the People’s 

Republic of China, Concerning Trade in 

Textiles and Apparel Products, dated 

November 8, 2005, you are directed, 

effective on November 28, 2005, and for 

the period November 28, 2005 through 

December 2, 2005, to allow entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption Chinese origin goods that 

(1) currently are in a bonded warehouse 

within the customs territory of the 

United States or in a foreign trade zone 

established under the Foreign Trade 

Zones Act of 1934, as amended (19 

U.S.C. S 81a, et seq.), and (2) were 

entered for warehouse or sent to General 

Order within the customs territory of 

the United States, or admitted to a 

foreign trade zone established under the 

Foreign Trade Zones Act of 1934, as 

amended, before November 8, 2005; and 

(3) were, at the time of export from 

China, subject to a quantitative restraint 

for one of the categories listed below, 

due to the application of Paragraph 242 

of the Report of the Working Party for 

the Accession of China to the World 

Trade Organization. 

Category Restraint period 

338/339 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

347/348 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

352/652 .......... May 23, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

638/639 .......... May 27, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

647/648 .......... May 27, 2005–December 31, 

2005. 

Shipments allowed entry pursuant to 

this directive will not be subject to 

staged entry limits. Any other 

shipments of goods from China subject 

to the quantitative restraints for the 

categories and restraint periods above, 

or to other quantitative restraints for 

goods exported from China prior to 

January 1, 2006, shall remain subject to 

the restraints previously established, 

and to staged entry procedures as laid 

out in the directives dated April 21, 

2005, and November 4, 2005. 

In carrying out the above direction, 

the Commissioner should construe the 

term ‘‘customs territory of the United 

States’’ to include only the States, the 

District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 

CITA has determined that this action 

falls within the foreign affairs exception 

of the rulemaking provisions of 5 U.S.C. 

553(a)(1). 

Sincerely, 

James C. Leonard III, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements. 

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