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continuation of the Travel & Tourism 

Satellite Accounts for the United States, 

which provide the only spending and 

employment figures for the industry, 

and (5) to support the goals of objectives 

of the President’s National Travel & 

Tourism Strategy. 

The Survey program contains the core 

data that is collected, analyzed and 

communicated by NTTO with other 

government agencies, associations and 

businesses that share the same objective 

of increasing U.S. international travel 

exports. The Survey assists NTTO in 

assessing the economic impact of 

international travel on state and local 

economies, providing visitation 

estimates, key market intelligence, and 

identifying traveler and trip 

characteristics. The U.S. Department of 

Commerce assists travel industry 

enterprises to increase international 

travel and passenger fare exports for the 

country as well as outbound travel on 

U.S. carriers. The Survey program 

provides the only available estimates of 

nonresident visitation to the states and 

cities within the United States, as well 

as U.S. resident travel abroad. 

A new survey instrument 

(questionnaire) (English version plus its 

translations into eleven foreign 

languages) was implemented in 2012. It 

reflects input from over 70 respondents, 

including: Travel Industry (airlines, 

travel associations, destinations, 

lodging); Consultants; Financial Firms; 

Educational Institutions; and other U.S. 

Government Agencies. 

The new Survey questionnaire reflects 

changes in various questions relating to: 

Trip purpose; Payment methods; 

Booking/Information sources; additional 

package components, health care/

vaccinations, travel insurance 

information, additional transportation 

utilized, Assessment of the Visitor’s 

Experience; and intentions for further 

travel to the United States; Ethnicity/

race. Several questions from the preexisting 1996 questionnaire were 

eliminated to further streamline the 

survey. 

II. Method of Collection 

The survey instrument/questionnaire 

(‘‘Survey of International Air 

Travelers’’) continues to be in paper 

format and is self-administered by the 

passenger who volunteers to take the 

survey, either while in the departure 

gate area or on-board the flight. The 

flights are selected randomly and this 

approach is described as ‘cluster 

sampling.’ The majority (80%) of the 

passenger surveys are collected in U.S. 

airport departure gate areas. About 20% 

of all the passenger surveys are 

collected during flight (on-board) post 

departure (Canada is not part of the 

program). U.S. and foreign flag airlines 

that volunteer to participate in the 

Survey program enable the collection 

either in U.S. departure gate areas or onboard flights. 

NTTO is planning to change the 

format to electronic or to a more 

efficient and equally statistically valid 

process once compelling results have 

been attained. To date there have been 

‘e-Survey tests’ in partnership with 

Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and 

with a major airline in its boarding area. 

Other tests are planned this year 

including the goal to leverage personal 

electronic devices (PED) and Wi-Fi 

capabilities in the airport and on-board 

certain flights. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0625–0227. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission 

[extension of a current information 

collection]. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

300,000 [changed from 99,400 due to 

mandate of the Travel Promotion Act 

which requires a ‘one percent’ sample of 

overseas arrivals]. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 75,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[Application No. 14–00004] 

Export Trade Certificate of Review 

ACTION: Notice of Application for an 

Export Trade Certificate of Review for 

DFA of California, Application no. 14– 

00004. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Trade and 

Economic Analysis (‘‘OTEA’’) of the 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce, has received 

an application for an Export Trade 

Certificate of Review (‘‘Certificate’’). 

This notice summarizes the application 

and requests comments relevant to 

whether the Certificate should be 

issued. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph Flynn, Director, Office of Trade 

and Economic Analysis, International 

Trade Administration, (202) 482–5131 

(this is not a toll-free number) or email 

at etca@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of 

the Export Trading Company Act of 

1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001–21) authorizes the 

Secretary of Commerce to issue Export 

Trade Certificates of Review. An Export 

Trade Certificate of Review protects the 

holder and the members identified in 

the Certificate from State and Federal 

government antitrust actions and from 

private treble damage antitrust actions 

for the export conduct specified in the 

Certificate and carried out in 

compliance with its terms and 

conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the 

Export Trading Company Act of 1982 

and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the 

Secretary to publish a notice in the 

Federal Register identifying the 

applicant and summarizing its proposed 

export conduct. 

Request for Public Comments 

Interested parties may submit written 

comments relevant to the determination 

whether a Certificate should be issued. 

If the comments include any privileged 

or confidential business information, it 

must be clearly marked and a 

nonconfidential version of the 

comments (identified as such) should be 

included. Any comments not marked as 

privileged or confidential business 

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information will be deemed to be 

nonconfidential. 

An original and five (5) copies, plus 

two (2) copies of the nonconfidential 

version, should be submitted no later 

than 20 days after the date of this notice 

to: Export Trading Company Affairs, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 

7025–X, Washington, DC 20230. 

Information submitted by any person 

is exempt from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552). However, nonconfidential versions 

of the comments will be made available 

to the applicant if necessary for 

determining whether or not to issue the 

Certificate. Comments should refer to 

this application as ‘‘Export Trade 

Certificate of Review, application 

number 14–00004.’’ 

A summary of the current application 

follows. 

Summary of the Application 

Applicant: DFA of California, 710 

Striker Avenue Sacramento, CA 95834. 

Contact: Matthew Krehe, Senior 

Manager with Gilbert Associates, Inc., 

(916) 646–6464. 

Application No.: 14–00004. 

Date Deemed Submitted: December 1, 

2014. 

Summary: DFA of California (‘‘DFA’’) 

seeks a Certificate of Review to engage 

in the Export Trade Activities and 

Methods of Operation described below 

in the following Export Trade and 

Export Markets. 

Export Trade 

Products: California Figs, Prunes and 

Walnuts in processed and unprocessed 

form. HS codes that best describe these 

products include, Figs (HS Code 

080420), ‘‘Natural Condition’’ and 

Processed Prunes (HS Code 081320), Inshell Walnuts (HS Code 080231), and 

Shelled Walnuts (HS Code 080232). 

Services: All services related to the 

export of Products. 

Technology Rights: All intellectual 

property rights associated with Products 

or Services, including, but not limited 

to: Patents, trademarks, services marks, 

trade names, copyrights, neighboring 

(related) rights, trade secrets, knowhow, and confidential databases and 

computer programs. 

Export Trade Facilitation Services (as 

They Relate to the Export of Products): 

All export trade related facilitation 

services, including but not limited to: 

Development of trade strategy; sales, 

marketing, and distribution; foreign 

market development; export promotion; 

and all aspects of foreign sales 

transactions, including export 

brokerage, freight forwarding, 

transportation, insurance, billing, 

collection, trade documentation, and 

foreign exchange; customs, duties, and 

taxes; and inspection and quality 

control. 

Export Markets 

The Export Markets include all parts 

of the world except the United States 

(the fifty states of the United States, the 

District of Columbia, the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 

Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, 

the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana 

Islands, and the Territory of the Pacific 

Islands). 

Export Trade Activities and Methods of 

Operations 

To engage in Export Trade in the 

Export Markets, DFA may exchange and 

discuss with its Members the following 

information: 

1. With respect to the Export Markets, 

information about the sales and 

marketing efforts, activities and 

opportunities for sales of Products, 

selling strategies, sales, contract and 

spot pricing, projected demands, 

customary terms of sale, and 

specifications for Products by 

customers; 

2. Information about the price, 

quality, quantity, source, and delivery 

dates of Products available from the 

Members for export; 

3. Information about terms and 

conditions of contracts for sale in the 

Export Markets to be considered and/or 

bid on by DFA and its Members; 

4. Information about joint bidding or 

selling arrangements for the Export 

Markets and allocations of sales 

resulting from such arrangements 

among the Members; 

5. Information about expenses specific 

to exporting to and within the Export 

Markets, including without limitation, 

transportation, trans- or intermodal 

shipments, insurance, inland freight to 

port, port storage, commissions, export 

sales, documentation, financing, 

customs, duties, and taxes; 

6. Information about U.S. and foreign 

legislation and regulations, including 

federal marketing order programs, 

affecting sales of Products for the Export 

Markets; 

7. Information about DFA’s or its 

Members’ export operations, including 

without limitation, sales and 

distribution networks established by 

DFA or its Members in the Export 

Markets, and prior export sales by 

Members (including export price 

information); and 

8. Information about export customer 

credit terms and credit history. 

DFA and its Members may prescribe 

the following conditions for admission 

of members of DFA as participants in 

the Export Trade Activities and 

Methods of Operation and as new 

Members of the Certificate (within the 

meaning of 15 CFR 325.2(l)) and 

termination of Membership: 

1. Membership shall be limited to Fig, 

Prune or Walnut Processors and Packers 

as defined under ‘‘Definitions.’’ 

2. Membership shall terminate on the 

occurrence of one of more of the 

following events: 

i. Withdrawal or resignation of the a 

Member; 

ii. Expulsion approved by a majority 

of all Members for a material violation 

of DFA’s Operating Agreement, after 

prior written notice to the Member 

proposed to be expelled and an 

opportunity of such Member to appear 

and be heard before a meeting of the 

Members; 

iii. Death or permanent disability of a 

Member who is an individual or the 

dissolution of a Member other than an 

individual; or 

iv. The bankruptcy of a Member as 

provided in DFA’s By-Laws. 

3. DFA and its Members may establish 

the following Minimum Qualifications 

to participate in the DFA of California’s 

Export Committees for Figs, Natural 

Condition Prunes, Prune Processors, 

and Walnuts. A participant must be: 

i. A DFA Member; 

ii. Owner of a commercially viable 

processing facility; 

iii. In good standing with DFA credit 

terms (Payment net 30); and 

iv. Its personal and business conduct 

must be considered consistent with the 

highest industry standards as necessary 

to protect the integrity of the committee. 

a. Fig Export Committee: Refer to 

Minimum Qualifications. 

b. Natural Condition Prune Export 

Committee: 

i. In addition to meeting the 

Minimum Qualifications, participation 

in this export committee requires the 

Member to be a packer of natural 

condition prunes for export. 

b. Prune Processor Export Committee: 

i. In addition to meeting the 

Minimum Qualifications, participation 

in this export committee requires the 

Member to be a processor of processed 

prunes for export. 

ii. Participation also requires that the 

Member has the capability to thermally 

process and pack fruit into a consumerready product to a minimum 25% 

moisture level suitable for end user 

consumption. 

c. Walnut Export Committee: Refer to 

Minimum Qualifications. 

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Definition 

1. ‘‘Supplier’’ means a person who 

produces, provides, or sells Products, 

Services, and/or Technology Rights. 

2. ‘‘Export Intermediary’’ means a 

person (including a Member) who acts 

as a distributor, sales representative, 

sales or marketing agent, or broker, or 

who provides similar functions, 

including providing, or arranging the 

provision of, Export Trade Facilitation 

Services. 

3. ‘‘Processor or Packer’’ means a 

person who processes or packs figs, 

prunes or walnuts grown in California. 

4. ‘‘Member’’ means the Members of 

DFA listed below and any other 

members of DFA added as Members 

under the Certificate through 

amendment of the Certificate. 

5. ‘‘Natural Condition Prunes’’ means 

prunes (with pits) in the condition in 

which they are normally delivered from 

a dry yard or dehydrator and may 

include: 

a. Prunes which have been washed, 

but which retain natural condition; 

b. Prunes which will permit normal 

bulk storage without adding a 

preservative; 

c. Prunes which have been size 

graded; 

d. Prunes which may have been 

processed and re-dried to acceptable 

natural condition moisture content; and 

e. Prunes in which the average 

moisture content of a lot is 21% or less. 

4. ‘‘Processed Prunes’’ means prunes 

which have been thermally processed 

(e.g.treated with hot water or steam) in 

the course of their preparation for 

packaging to the extent that their 

condition no longer meets the definition 

of ‘‘natural condition.’’ 

The members of DFA of California 

proposed as Members under the 

Certificate within the meaning of 15 

CFR 325.2(l): 

1. Alpine Pacific Nut Company 

(Hughson, CA) 

2. Andersen & Sons Shelling (Vina, CA) 

3. Avanti Nut Company, Inc. (Stockton, 

CA) 

4. Berberian Nut Company, LLC (Chico, 

CA) 

5. Carriere Family Farms, Inc. (Glenn, 

CA) 

6. Continente Nut LLC (Oakley, CA) 

7. Crain Walnut Shelling, Inc. (Los 

Molinos, CA) 

8. Crisp California Walnuts (Stratford, 

CA) 

9. Diamond Foods, Inc. (Stockton, CA) 

10. Empire Nut Company (Colusa, CA) 

11. Gold River Orchards, Inc. (Escalon, 

CA) 

12. Grower Direct Nut Company 

(Hughson, CA) 

13. GSF Nut Company (Orosi, CA) 

14. Guerra Nut Shelling Company 

(Hollister, CA) 

15. Hill View Packing Company Inc. 

(Gustine, CA) 

16. Linden Nut Company (Linden, CA) 

17. Mariani Nut Company (Winters, CA) 

18. Mariani Packing Company, Inc. 

(Vacaville, CA) 

19. Mid Valley Nut Company Inc. 

(Hughson, CA) 

20. National Raisin Company (Fowler, 

CA) 

21. Poindexter Nut Company (Selma, 

CA) 

22. Prima Noce Packing (Linden, CA) 

23. Sacramento Packing, Inc. (Yuba City, 

CA) 

24. Sacramento Valley Walnut Growers, 

Inc. (Yuba City, CA) 

25. San Joaquin Figs, Inc. (Fresno, CA) 

26. Shoei Foods USA, Inc. (Olivehurst, 

CA) 

27. Stapleton-Spence Packing (Gridley, 

CA) 

28. Sunsweet Growers Inc. (Yuba City, 

CA) 

29. T.M. Duche Nut Company, Inc. 

(Orland, CA) 

30. Wilbur Packing Company, Inc. (Live 

Oak, CA) 

31. Valley Fig Growers (Fresno, CA) 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Joseph Flynn, 

Director, Office of Trade and Economic 

Analysis, International Trade Administration, 

(202) 482–5131, etca@trade.gov. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

North American Free Trade Agreement, 

Article 1904; NAFTA Panel Reviews; 

First Request for Panel Review 

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United 

States Section, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of First Request for Panel 

Review. 

SUMMARY: On December 1, 2014, 

Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. (formerly 

Deacero S.A. de C.V.), and Deacero 

USA, Inc. filed a First Request for Panel 

Review with the United States Section 

of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to 

Article 1904 of the North American Free 

Trade Agreement. Panel Review was 

requested of the U.S. International 

Trade Commission’s final determination 

regarding Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar 

from Mexico and Turkey: September 4, 

2013–October 28, 2014. This 

determination was published in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 65,246), on 

November 3, 2014. The NAFTA 

Secretariat has assigned Case Number 

USA–MEX–2014–1904–02 to this 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marsha Ann Y. Iyomasa, Acting United 

States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, 

Suite 2061, 14th and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, 

(202) 482–5438. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter 

19 of the North American Free Trade 

Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’) established a 

mechanism to replace domestic judicial 

review of final determinations in 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

cases involving imports from a NAFTA 

country with review by independent 

binational panels. When a Request for 

Panel Review is filed, a panel is 

established to act in place of national 

courts to review expeditiously the final 

determination to determine whether it 

conforms with the antidumping or 

countervailing duty law of the country 

that made the determination. 

Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, 

which came into force on January 1, 

1994, the Government of the United 

States, the Government of Canada, and 

the Government of Mexico established 

Rules of Procedure for Article 1904 

Binational Panel Reviews (‘‘Rules’’). 

These Rules were published in the 

Federal Register on February 23, 1994 

(59 FR 8686). 

A first Request for Panel Review was 

filed with the United States Section of 

the NAFTA Secretariat, pursuant to 

Article 1904 of the Agreement, on 

December 1, 2014, requesting a panel 

review of the determination and order 

described above. 

The Rules provide that: 

(a) A Party or interested person may 

challenge the final determination in 

whole or in part by filing a Complaint 

in accordance with Rule 39 within 30 

days after the filing of the first Request 

for Panel Review (the deadline for filing 

a Complaint is December 31, 2014); 

(b) a Party, investigating authority or 

interested person that does not file a 

Complaint but that intends to appear in 

support of any reviewable portion of the 

final determination may participate in 

the panel review by filing a Notice of 

Appearance in accordance with Rule 40 

within 45 days after the filing of the first 

Request for Panel Review (the deadline 

for filing a Notice of Appearance is 

January 15, 2015); and 

(c) the panel review shall be limited 

to the allegations of error of fact or law, 

including the jurisdiction of the 

investigating authority, that are set out 

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