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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 148 / Thursday, August 5, 2021 / Notices 751a1 and 777i1 of the Act and 19
CFR 351.221b4.
Dated: July 30, 2021.
Christian Marsh, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests Under the Commercial Availability Provision of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement U.S.-Colombia TPA
International Trade Administration, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
PRA, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the publics reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before October 4, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to Ms. Laurie Mease, International Trade Specialist, International Trade Administration, Office of Textiles and Apparel OTEXA, by email to OTEXA_
Colombia@trade.gov, or PRAcomments@doc.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0625

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0272 in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Ms.
Laurie Mease, International Trade Specialist, International Trade Administration, Office of Textiles and Apparel OTEXA, 202 4822043 or by email to Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract Title II, Section 203o of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act the Act Pub. L. 11242 implements the commercial availability provision provided for in Article 3.3 of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement the Agreement. The Agreement entered into force on May 15, 2012. Subject to the rules of origin in Annex 4.1 of the Agreement, pursuant to the textile provisions of the Agreement, fabric, yarn, and fiber produced in Colombia or the United States and traded between the two countries are entitled to duty-free tariff treatment. Annex 3B of the Agreement also lists specific fabrics, yarns, and fibers that the two countries agreed are not available in commercial quantities in a timely manner from producers in Colombia or the United States. The fabrics listed are commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers, which are also entitled to duty-free treatment despite not being produced in Colombia or the United States.
The list of commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers may be changed pursuant to the commercial availability provision in Chapter 3, Article 3.3, Paragraphs 57 of the Agreement. Under this provision, interested entities from Colombia or the United States have the right to request that a specific fabric, yarn, or fiber be added to, or removed from, the list of commercially unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers in Annex 3B of the Agreement.
Chapter 3, Article 3.3, paragraph 7 of the Agreement requires that the President promptly publish procedures for parties to exercise the right to make these requests. Section 203o4 of the Act authorizes the President to establish procedures to modify the list of fabrics, yarns, or fibers not available in commercial quantities in a timely manner in either the United States or Colombia as set out in Annex 3B of the Agreement. The President
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delegated the responsibility for publishing the procedures and administering commercial availability requests to the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements CITA, which issues procedures and acts on requests through the U.S.
Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel OTEXA See Proclamation No. 8818, 77 FR 29519, May 18, 2012.
The intent of the U.S.-Colombia TPA
Commercial Availability Procedures is to foster the use of U.S. and regional products by implementing procedures that allow products to be placed on or removed from a product list, on a timely basis, and in a manner that is consistent with normal business practice. The procedures are intended to facilitate the transmission of requests; allow the market to indicate the availability of the supply of products that are the subject of requests; make available promptly, to interested entities and the public, information regarding the requests for products and offers received for those products; ensure wide participation by interested entities and parties; allow for careful review and consideration of information provided to substantiate requests, responses and rebuttals; and provide timely public dissemination of information used by CITA in making commercial availability determinations.
CITA must collect certain information about fabric, yarn, or fiber technical specifications and the production capabilities of Colombian and U.S.
textile producers to determine whether certain fabrics, yarns, or fibers are available in commercial quantities in a timely manner in the United States or Colombia, subject to Section 203o of the Act.
II. Method of Collection Participants in a commercial availability proceeding must submit public versions of their Requests, Responses or Rebuttals electronically via email for posting on OTEXAs website. Confidential versions of those submissions which contain business confidential information must be delivered in hard copy to the Office of Textiles and Apparel OTEXA at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
III. Data OMB Control Number: 06250272.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Business or for-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
16.

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