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                        제15398호                                                                  2003. 5.17. (토요일)
                   Enclosure:USG proposal to modify the “ELVIS            A. The Government of the Republic of Korea
                   Arrangement”                                             shall issue a transmission for each shipment
                         ELECTRONIC VISA INFORMATION                        of textile products produced or manuf-
                          SYSTEM(ELVIS)ARRANGEMENT                          actured in Korea and exported to the United
                      BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE                        States regardless of value, in categories
                                UNITED STATES AND                           200-239, 300-369, 400-469, 600-670, and
                      THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CONCERNING                      800-899, including part categories and
                        TEXTILES AND TEXTILE PRODUCTS                       merged categories, and which are not
                   1. Definitions:                                          eligible for the exemptions noted in Annex B
                     A. For the purpose of this arrangement, the            of this arrangement and which are not
                       term “textiles”means textiles and textile            covered by paragraph 3C of this arrang-
                       products of cotton, wool, man-made fibers,           ement.
                       other vegetable fibers, blends of any of the         In the future, should additional categories,
                       foregoing fibers and blends containing silk,         merged categories or part categories be
                       but does not include garments which contain          added to or changed in the bilateral
                       70 percent or more silk by weight(unless             agreement or become subject to import
                       they also contain over 17 percent by weight          quotas, the entire category or categories
                       of wool), or products other than garments            shall be automatically included in the
                       which contain 85 percent or more silk by             coverage of the arrangement. Merchandise
                       weight, as defined in our bilateral                  exported on or after the date the category is
                       agreement.                                           added to or changed in the agreement or
                     B. The term “Category” includes part                   becomes subject to import quotas shall
                       categories and merged categories as                  require a transmission.
                       established in the bilateral agreement. A list     B. This transmission shall be presented to the
                       of all part category and merged category             U.S. Customs service before entry, or
                       designations is attached in annex A.                 withdrawal from warehouse for consump-
                     C. An “ELVIS transmission”is a message,                tion, into the customs territory of the United
                       sent electronically to the U.S. Customs              States(the 50 states, the District of
                       Service, by the Government of the Republic           Columbia, and Puerto Rico).
                       of Korea, or by its representative, which          C. Each ELVIS transmission shall include the
                       describes the shipment of the textile                following information:
                       products exported to the United States and           I. The visa number:The visa number shall
                       includes the visa number assigned to the               be in the standard nine digit letter format
                       shipment. The transmission certifies the               beginning with one numeric digit for the
                       country of origin and authorizes the                   last digit of the year of export, followed
                       shipment to be charged against any                     by the two character alpha code specified
                       applicable quotas.                                     by the International Organization for
                   2. Electronic Visa Information System                      Standardization(ISO)(The code for the
                     Requirements:                                            Republic of Korea is KR), and a six digit
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