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mission. The statutory program 

authority for the Commercial Service to 

conduct the International Buyer 

Program is 15 U.S.C. 4724. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) has approved the information 

collection requirements of the 

application to this program (Form ITA– 

4102P) under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) (OMB Control No. 

0625–0151). Notwithstanding any other 

provision of law, no person is required 

to respond to, nor shall a person be 

subject to a penalty for failure to comply 

with, a collection of information subject 

to the requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, unless that collection of 

information displays a currently valid 

OMB Control Number. 

Dated: August 26, 2010. 

Blanche Ziv, 

Director, International Buyer Program, U.S. 

and Foreign Commercial Service, 

International Trade Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21838 Filed 8–31–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–953] 

Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven 

Selvedge From the People’s Republic 

of China: Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) and the 

International Trade Commission (‘‘ITC’’), 

the Department is issuing a 

countervailing duty order on narrow 

woven ribbons with woven selvedge 

(‘‘narrow woven ribbons’’) from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). 

DATES: Effective Date: September 1, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Holland, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office 1, Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–1279. 

Background 

On July 19, 2010, the Department 

published its final determination in the 

countervailing duty investigation of 

narrow woven ribbons from the PRC. 

See Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven 

Selvedge From the People’s Republic of 

China: Final Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination, 75 FR 41801 (July 

19, 2010). 

On August 25, 2010, the ITC notified 

the Department of its final 

determination pursuant to sections 

705(d) and 705(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’), that 

an industry in the United States is 

threatened with material injury by 

reason of subsidized imports of subject 

merchandise from the PRC. See Narrow 

Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge 

from China, USITC Pub. 4180, 

Investigation Nos. 701–TA–467 and 

731–TA–1164–1165 (Final) (August 

2010). Pursuant to section 706(a) of the 

Act, the Department is publishing a 

countervailing duty order on the subject 

merchandise. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the order 

is narrow woven ribbons with woven 

selvedge, in any length, but with a 

width (measured at the narrowest span 

of the ribbon) less than or equal to 12 

centimeters, composed of, in whole or 

in part, man-made fibers (whether 

artificial or synthetic, including but not 

limited to nylon, polyester, rayon, 

polypropylene, and polyethylene 

teraphthalate), metal threads and/or 

metalized yarns, or any combination 

thereof. Narrow woven ribbons subject 

to the order may: 

• Also include natural or other nonman-made fibers; 

• Be of any color, style, pattern, or 

weave construction, including but not 

limited to single-faced satin, doublefaced satin, grosgrain, sheer, taffeta, 

twill, jacquard, or a combination of two 

or more colors, styles, patterns, and/or 

weave constructions; 

• Have been subjected to, or 

composed of materials that have been 

subjected to, various treatments, 

including but not limited to dyeing, 

printing, foil stamping, embossing, 

flocking, coating, and/or sizing; 

• Have embellishments, including but 

not limited to applique ́, fringes, 

embroidery, buttons, glitter, sequins, 

laminates, and/or adhesive backing; 

• Have wire and/or monofilament in, 

on, or along the longitudinal edges of 

the ribbon; 

• Have ends of any shape or 

dimension, including but not limited to 

straight ends that are perpendicular to 

the longitudinal edges of the ribbon, 

tapered ends, flared ends or shaped 

ends, and the ends of such woven 

ribbons may or may not be hemmed; 

• Have longitudinal edges that are 

straight or of any shape, and the 

longitudinal edges of such woven 

ribbon may or may not be parallel to 

each other; 

• Consist of such ribbons affixed to 

like ribbon and/or cut-edge woven 

ribbon, a configuration also known as an 

‘‘ornamental trimming;’’ 

• Be wound on spools; attached to a 

card; hanked (i.e., coiled or bundled); 

packaged in boxes, trays or bags; or 

configured as skeins, balls, bateaus or 

folds; and/or 

• Be included within a kit or set such 

as when packaged with other products, 

including but not limited to gift bags, 

gift boxes and/or other types of ribbon. 

Narrow woven ribbons subject to the 

order include all narrow woven fabrics, 

tapes, and labels that fall within this 

written description of the scope of this 

order. 

Excluded from the scope of the order 

are the following: 

(1) Formed bows composed of narrow 

woven ribbons with woven selvedge; 

(2) ‘‘Pull-bows’’ (i.e., an assemblage of 

ribbons connected to one another, 

folded flat and equipped with a means 

to form such ribbons into the shape of 

a bow by pulling on a length of material 

affixed to such assemblage) composed of 

narrow woven ribbons; 

(3) Narrow woven ribbons comprised 

at least 20 percent by weight of 

elastomeric yarn (i.e., filament yarn, 

including monofilament, of synthetic 

textile material, other than textured 

yarn, which does not break on being 

extended to three times its original 

length and which returns, after being 

extended to twice its original length, 

within a period of five minutes, to a 

length not greater than one and a half 

times its original length as defined in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (‘‘HTSUS’’), Section XI, 

Note 13) or rubber thread; 

(4) Narrow woven ribbons of a kind 

used for the manufacture of typewriter 

or printer ribbons; 

(5) Narrow woven labels and apparel 

tapes, cut-to-length or cut-to-shape, 

having a length (when measured across 

the longest edge-to-edge span) not 

exceeding eight centimeters; 

(6) Narrow woven ribbons with 

woven selvedge attached to and forming 

the handle of a gift bag; 

(7) Cut-edge narrow woven ribbons 

formed by cutting broad woven fabric 

into strips of ribbon, with or without 

treatments to prevent the longitudinal 

edges of the ribbon from fraying (such 

as by merrowing, lamination, sonobonding, fusing, gumming or waxing), 

and with or without wire running 

lengthwise along the longitudinal edges 

of the ribbon; 


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1Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge 

From the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and 

Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty 

Determination With Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 74 FR 66090 (December 14, 2009). 

2The Department instructed CBP to discontinue 

the suspension of liquidation on April 13, 2010, in 

accordance with section 703(d) of the Act. Section 

703(d) states that the suspension of liquidation 

pursuant to a preliminary determination may not 

remain in effect for more than four months. 

(8) Narrow woven ribbons comprised 

at least 85 percent by weight of threads 

having a denier of 225 or higher; 

(9) Narrow woven ribbons constructed 

from pile fabrics (i.e., fabrics with a 

surface effect formed by tufts or loops of 

yarn that stand up from the body of the 

fabric); 

(10) Narrow woven ribbon affixed 

(including by tying) as a decorative 

detail to non-subject merchandise, such 

as a gift bag, gift box, gift tin, greeting 

card or plush toy, or affixed (including 

by tying) as a decorative detail to 

packaging containing non-subject 

merchandise; 

(11) Narrow woven ribbon that is (a) 

affixed to non-subject merchandise as a 

working component of such non-subject 

merchandise, such as where narrow 

woven ribbon comprises an apparel 

trimming, book marker, bag cinch, or 

part of an identity card holder, or (b) 

affixed (including by tying) to nonsubject merchandise as a working 

component that holds or packages such 

non-subject merchandise or attaches 

packaging or labeling to such nonsubject merchandise, such as a ‘‘belly 

band’’ around a pair of pajamas, a pair 

of socks or a blanket; 

(12) Narrow woven ribbon(s) 

comprising a belt attached to and 

imported with an item of wearing 

apparel, whether or not such belt is 

removable from such item of wearing 

apparel; and 

(13) Narrow woven ribbon(s) included 

with non-subject merchandise in kits, 

such as a holiday ornament craft kit or 

a scrapbook kit, in which the individual 

lengths of narrow woven ribbon(s) 

included in the kit are each no greater 

than eight inches, the aggregate amount 

of narrow woven ribbon(s) included in 

the kit does not exceed 48 linear inches, 

none of the narrow woven ribbon(s) 

included in the kit is on a spool, and the 

narrow woven ribbon(s) is only one of 

multiple items included in the kit. 

The merchandise subject to this order 

is classifiable under the HTSUS 

statistical categories 5806.32.1020; 

5806.32.1030; 5806.32.1050 and 

5806.32.1060. Subject merchandise also 

may enter under subheadings 

5806.31.00; 5806.32.20; 5806.39.20; 

5806.39.30; 5808.90.00; 5810.91.00; 

5810.99.90; 5903.90.10; 5903.90.25; 

5907.00.60; and 5907.00.80 and under 

statistical categories 5806.32.1080; 

5810.92.9080; 5903.90.3090; and 

6307.90.9889. The HTSUS statistical 

categories and subheadings are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes; 

however, the written description of the 

merchandise under the order is 

dispositive. 

Countervailing Duty Order 

According to section 706(b)(2) of the 

Act, duties shall be assessed on subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the ITC’s 

notice of final determination if that 

determination is based upon the threat 

of material injury. Section 706(b)(1) of 

the Act states, ‘‘If the Commission, in its 

final determination under section 

705(b), finds material injury or threat of 

material injury which, but for the 

suspension of liquidation under section 

703(d)(2), would have led to a finding 

of material injury, then entries of the 

merchandise subject to the 

countervailing duty order, the 

liquidation of which has been 

suspended under section 703(d)(2), 

shall be subject to the imposition of 

countervailing duties under section 

701(a).’’ In addition, section 706(b)(2) of 

the Act requires CBP to refund any cash 

deposits or bonds of estimated 

countervailing duties posted since the 

Department’s preliminary 

countervailing duty determination, if 

the ITC’s final determination is threatbased. Because the ITC’s final 

determination in this case is based on 

the threat of material injury and is not 

accompanied by a finding that injury 

would have resulted but for the 

imposition of suspension of liquidation 

of entries since the Department’s 

Preliminary Determination 1 was 

published in the Federal Register, 

section 706(b)(2) of the Act is 

applicable. 

As a result of the ITC’s determination, 

and in accordance with section 706(a)(1) 

of the Act, the Department will direct 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(‘‘CBP’’) to assess, upon further 

instruction by the Department, 

countervailing duties equal to the 

amount of the net countervailable 

subsidy for all relevant entries of narrow 

woven ribbons from the PRC. In 

accordance with section 706 of the Act, 

the Department will direct CBP to 

reinstitute suspension of liquidation 2

effective on the date of publication of 

the ITC’s notice of final determination 

in the Federal Register, and to require 

a cash deposit for each entry of subject 

merchandise in an amount equal to the 

net countervailable subsidy rates noted 

below. 

Exporter/manufacturer Net subsidy 

rate 

Yama Ribbons and Bows Co., 

Ltd ......................................... 1.56 

Changtai Rongshu Textile Co., 

Ltd ......................................... 117.95 

All Others .................................. 1.56 

Termination of the Suspension of 

Liquidation 

The Department will also instruct 

CBP to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation for entries of narrow woven 

ribbons from the PRC entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption prior to the publication of 

the ITC’s notice of final determination, 

and refund any cash deposits made and 

release any bonds posted between 

December 14, 2009 (i.e., the date of 

publication of the Department’s 

Preliminary Determination) and the date 

of publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty order with respect 

to narrow woven ribbons from the PRC, 

pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act. 

Interested parties may contact the 

Department’s Central Records Unit, 

Room 1117 of the main Commerce 

Building, for copies of an updated list 

of countervailing duty orders currently 

in effect. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: August 30, 2010. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21978 Filed 8–31–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2010–0055] 

Examination Guidelines Update: 

Developments in the Obviousness 

Inquiry After KSR v.Teleflex 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is 

issuing an update (2010 KSR Guidelines 

Update) to its obviousness guidelines 

for its personnel to be used when 

applying the law of obviousness under 


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