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13The following subsidy programs in the final 

determination of the concurrent countervailing duty 

investigation are export subsidies: Discounted 

Loans for Export-Oriented Enterprises (1.06%), 

Export Credits from China’s Export-Import Bank 

(1.06%), Export Credit Insurance from China Export 

and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) 

(1.06%), Foreign Trade Development Fund (0.55%), 

Famous Brands Program (0.55%), Provision of 

Shipping for LTAR (5.34%). See Calcium 

Hypochlorite From the People’s Republic of China: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, dated concurrently with this notice, 

and accompanying Issues and Decision 

Memorandum at 7. 

determined in this final determination; 

(2) if the exporter is not a firm identified 

in this investigation but the producer is, 

the rate will be the rate established for 

the producer of calcium hypochlorite 

from the PRC; (3) the rate for all other 

producers or exporters will be 210.52 

percent, as discussed in the ‘‘PRCWide’’ section, above. In this LTFV 

investigation, with regard to PRC-wide 

entity, export subsidies constitute 9.62 

percent 13 of the final calculated 

countervailing duty rate in the 

concurrent countervailing duty 

investigation, and, thus, we will offset 

the PRC-wide rate of 210.52 percent by 

the countervailing duty rate attributable 

to export subsidies (i.e., 9.62 percent) to 

calculate the cash deposit rate for this 

LTFV investigation. These instructions 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

(‘‘ITC’’) Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, we notified the ITC of our final 

affirmative determination of sales at 

LTFV. As the Department’s final 

determination in this proceeding is 

affirmative, in accordance with section 

735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will 

determine, no later than 45 days after 

our final determination, whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, or threatened with 

material injury, by reason of imports of 

calcium hypochlorite from the PRC, or 

sales (or the likelihood of sales) for 

importation of calcium hypochlorite 

from the PRC. If the ITC determines that 

such injury does not exist, we will 

terminate this proceeding and we will 

refund or cancel all securities posted. 

However, if the ITC determines that 

such injury does exist, the Department 

will issue an antidumping duty order 

directing CBP to assess, upon further 

instruction by the Department, 

antidumping duties on all imports of 

calcium hypochlorite from the PRC 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the effective 

date of the suspension of liquidation. 

Return or Destruction of Proprietary 

Information 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective order (‘‘APO’’) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). We hereby 

request, timely written notification of 

return or destruction of APO materials 

or conversion to judicial protective 

order. Failure to comply with the 

regulations and the terms of an APO is 

a sanctionable violation. 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

735(d) and 777(i)(l) of the Act. 

Dated: December 8, 2014. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29370 Filed 12–12–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of 

Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti 

Under the Haitian Hemispheric 

Opportunity Through Partnership for 

Encouragement Act (HOPE) 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of Annual 

Quantitative Limit on Certain Apparel 

under HOPE. 

SUMMARY: HOPE provides for duty-free 

treatment for certain apparel articles 

imported directly from Haiti. One of the 

preferences under HOPE is known as 

the ‘‘value-added’’ program, which 

requires that apparel meet a minimum 

threshold percentage of value added in 

Haiti, the United States, and/or certain 

beneficiary countries. The program is 

subject to a quantitative limitation, 

which is calculated as a percentage of 

total apparel imports into the United 

States for each 12-month annual period. 

For the annual period from December 

20, 2014 through December 19, 2015, 

the quantity of imports eligible for 

preferential treatment under the valueadded program is 332,915,916 square 

meters equivalent. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 20, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maria Dybczak, International Trade 

Specialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–3651. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: The Caribbean Basin Recovery 

Act (‘‘CBERA’’), as amended by the Haitian 

Hemispheric Opportunity Through 

Partnership for Encouragement Act of 2006 

(‘‘HOPE’’), Title V of the Tax Relief and 

Health Care Act of 2006 and the Food, 

Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 

(‘‘HOPE II’’); the Haiti Economic Lift Program 

Act of 2010 (‘‘HELP’’); and implemented by 

Presidential Proc. No. 8114, 72 FR 13655, 

13659 (March 22, 2007), and No. 8596, 75 FR 

68153 (November 4, 2010). 

HOPE provides for duty-free 

treatment for certain apparel articles 

imported directly from Haiti. Section 

213A(b)(1)(B) of HOPE outlines the 

requirements for certain apparel articles 

to qualify for duty-free treatment under 

a ‘‘value-added’’ program. In order to 

qualify for duty-free treatment, apparel 

articles must be wholly assembled, or 

knit-to-shape, in Haiti from any 

combination of fabrics, fabric 

components, components knit-to-shape, 

and yarns, as long as the sum of the cost 

or value of materials produced in Haiti 

or one or more countries, as described 

in HOPE, or any combination thereof, 

plus the direct costs of processing 

operations performed in Haiti or one or 

more countries, as described in HOPE, 

or any combination thereof, is not less 

than an applicable percentage of the 

declared customs value of such apparel 

articles. Pursuant to HELP, the 

applicable percentage for the period 

December 20, 2014 through December 

19, 2015, is 50 percent. 

For every twelve month period 

following the effective date of HOPE, 

duty-free treatment under the valueadded program is subject to a 

quantitative limitation. HOPE provides 

that the quantitative limitation will be 

recalculated for each subsequent 12- 

month period. Section 213A(b)(1)(C) of 

HOPE, as amended by HOPE II and 

HELP, requires that, for the twelvemonth period beginning on December 

20, 2014, the quantitative limitation for 

qualifying apparel imported from Haiti 

under the value-added program will be 

an amount equivalent to 1.25 percent of 

the aggregate square meter equivalent of 

all apparel articles imported into the 

United States in the most recent 12- 

month period for which data are 

available. The aggregate square meters 

equivalent of all apparel articles 

imported into the United States is 

derived from the set of Harmonized 

System lines listed in the Annex to the 

World Trade Organization Agreement 

on Textiles and Clothing (‘‘ATC’’), and 


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the conversion factors for units of 

measure into square meter equivalents 

used by the United States in 

implementing the ATC. For purposes of 

this notice, the most recent 12-month 

period for which data are available as of 

December 20, 2014 is the 12-month 

period ending on October 31, 2014. 

Therefore, for the one-year period 

beginning on December 20, 2014 and 

extending through December 19, 2015, 

the quantity of imports eligible for 

preferential treatment under the valueadded program is 332,915,916 square 

meters equivalent. Apparel articles 

entered in excess of these quantities will 

be subject to otherwise applicable 

tariffs. 

Dated: December 9, 2014. 

Joshua Teitelbaum, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles, 

Consumer Goods and Materials. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29253 Filed 12–12–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–C–2014–0047] 

Notice of Public Meeting on Trade 

Secret Topics 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of symposium. 

SUMMARY: The protection of U.S. trade 

secrets from misappropriation is an 

Administration priority. As noted in the 

Administration Strategy on Mitigating 

the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets 

(February 2013), ‘‘trade secret theft 

threatens American businesses, 

undermines national security, and 

places the security of the U.S. economy 

in jeopardy.’’ In pursuit of the goals of 

the Administration Strategy through 

information sharing and discussion, the 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office will hold a public symposium on 

issues relevant to the protection of trade 

secrets. Topics to be discussed include 

losses due to trade secret theft and 

challenges to protecting trade secrets, 

the intersection of patent and trade 

secret protection, trade secret issues in 

civil litigation, trade secret protection in 

foreign jurisdictions, and proposed 

responses to the threat of trade secret 

theft in the U.S. 

DATES: The symposium will be held on 

January 8, 2015. The symposium will 

begin at 9 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The symposium will be 

held at the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Madison Building, 

600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia 

22314. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the 

symposium, please contact Michael 

Smith, Jenny Blank, or Hollis Robinson 

at the Office of Policy and International 

Affairs, by telephone at (571) 272–9300, 

by email at tradesecrets@uspto.gov, or 

by postal mail addressed to: Mail Stop 

OPIA, United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, ATTN: 

Michael Smith, Jenny Blank, or Hollis 

Robinson. Please direct all media 

inquiries to the Office of the Chief 

Communications Officer, USPTO, at 

(571) 272–8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Trade Secret Symposium 

Under U.S. law, trade secrets 

comprise commercially valuable 

information not generally known or 

readily ascertainable to the public that 

are subject to reasonable measures to 

maintain confidentiality. The protection 

of U.S. trade secrets from 

misappropriation is an Administration 

priority. As stated in the Administration 

Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. 

Trade Secrets (February 2013), ‘‘trade 

secret theft threatens American 

businesses, undermines national 

security, and places the security of the 

U.S. economy in jeopardy.’’ Likewise, 

increased mobility, globalization, and 

the anonymous/pseudonymous nature 

of the internet result in new challenges 

to protecting trade secrets. In pursuit of 

the goals of the Administration Strategy 

through information sharing and 

discussion, the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office will hold a public 

symposium on issues relevant to the 

protection of trade secrets. Topics to be 

discussed include losses due to trade 

secret theft and challenges in protecting 

trade secrets, the intersection of patent 

and trade secret protection, trade secret 

matters that arise in civil litigation, 

trade secret protection in foreign 

jurisdictions, and proposed responses to 

the threat of trade secret theft in the U.S. 

The symposium will feature panel 

discussions, and there will be 

opportunities for attendees to ask 

questions. It is expected that experts 

from academia, the legislative and 

executive branches, the judiciary, 

private legal practice, and industry will 

serve as panelists. 

Instructions and Information on the 

Public Symposium 

The symposium will be held on 

January 8, 2015, at the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office, Madison 

Building, 600 Dulany Street, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314. The 

symposium will begin at 9 a.m. and end 

at 3 p.m. The agenda will be available 

a week before the symposium on the 

USPTO Web site, http://www.uspto.gov/ 

. Registration is available at http://

events.SignUp4.com/tradesecrets. 

Attendees may also register at the door 

one half-hour prior to the beginning of 

the symposium. 

The symposium will be physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Individuals requiring accommodation, 

such as sign language interpretation or 

other ancillary aids, should 

communicate their needs to Hollis 

Robinson at the Office of Policy and 

International Affairs, by telephone at 

(571) 272–9300, by email at 

hollis.robinson@uspto.gov, or by postal 

mail addressed to: Mail Stop OPIA, 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 

22313–1450, ATTN: Hollis Robinson, at 

least seven (7) business days prior to the 

symposium. 

Dated: December 9, 2014. 

Michelle K. Lee, 

Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of 

the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29350 Filed 12–12–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

Fair Credit Reporting Act Disclosures 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Notice regarding charges for 

certain disclosures under the Fair Credit 

Reporting Act. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Consumer 

Financial Protection (Bureau) 

announces that the ceiling on allowable 

charges under section 612(f) of the Fair 

Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) will 

increase from $11.50 to $12.00, effective 

for 2015. The Bureau is required to 

increase the $8.00 amount referred to in 

section 612(f)(1)(A)(i) of the FCRA on 

January 1 of each year, based 

proportionally on changes in the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers (CPI–U), with fractional 

changes rounded to the nearest fifty 

cents. The CPI–U increased 47.66 

percent between September 1997, when 

the FCRA amendments took effect, and 

September 2014. This increase in the 

CPI–U, and the requirement that any 

increase be rounded to the nearest fifty 


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