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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 156 / Tuesday, August 17, 2021 / Notices
12 with alumni and 6 with community members. With up to eight participants per focus group, there will be roughly 144 focus group participants maximum in addition to the 80 interview participants, with a total of approximately 224 qualitative participants. Recruitment will ensure representation across cohort years as well as implementing partners and will attempt to have broad geographic coverage.
Nini J. Forino, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
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I. Background
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Docket Number USTR20210015

Request for Written Comments Concerning Chinas Compliance With WTO Commitments Office of the United States Trade Representative.
ACTION: Notice of request for written comments.
AGENCY:

The interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee TPSC invites written comments to assist the Office of the United States Trade Representative USTR in the preparation of its annual report to Congress on Chinas compliance with the commitments made in connection with its accession to the World Trade Organization WTO.
Due to COVID19, the TPSC will foster public participation via written questions and responses relating to the comments received by the TPSC rather than an in-person hearing. This notice includes the schedule for submission of comments, questions and responses.
DATES:
September 15, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
EDT: Deadline for submission of written comments.
September 29, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
EDT: Deadline for the TPSC to pose written questions on written comments.
October 13, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EDT:
Deadline for submission of commenters responses to written questions from the TPSC.
ADDRESSES: USTR strongly prefers electronic submissions made through the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http
www.regulations.gov REGS.GOV. The instructions for submitting written submissions are in sections III and IV
below. The docket number is USTR
20210015. For alternatives to online
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submissions, contact Spencer Smith at Spencer.L.Smith2@ustr.eop.gov or 202
3952974 before transmitting a submission and in advance of the relevant deadline.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For procedural questions concerning written submissions, contact Spencer Smith at Spencer.L.Smith2@ustr.eop.gov or 202
3952974. Direct all other questions to Tsering Dhongthog, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs, at 202 3953900, or Arthur N.
Tsao, Chief Counsel for China Enforcement, at 202 3953150.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
China became a Member of the WTO
on December 11, 2001. In accordance with section 421 of the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 Pub. L. 106286, USTR is required to submit, on or about December 11 of each year, a report to Congress on Chinas compliance with commitments made in connection with its accession to the WTO, including both multilateral commitments and any bilateral commitments made to the United States. In accordance with section 421, and to assist it in preparing this years report, the TPSC is soliciting public comments. You can find last years report on USTRs website at https ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/
reports/2020/2020USTRReportCongress ChinaWTOCompliance.pdf.
The terms of Chinas accession to the WTO are contained in the Protocol on the Accession of the Peoples Republic of China including its annexes Protocol, the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of China Working Party Report, and the WTO
agreements. You can find the Protocol and Working Party Report on the WTO
website at http docsonline.wto.org document symbols: WT/L/432, WT/
MIN01/3, WT/MIN01/3/Add.1, WT/
MIN01/3/Add.2.
II. Topics on Which the TPSC Seeks Information The TPSC invites written comments on Chinas compliance with commitments made in connection with its accession to the WTO, including, but not limited to, commitments in the following areas:
A. Trading rights.
B. Import regulation e.g., tariffs, tariff-rate quotas, quotas, import licenses.
C. Export regulation.
D. Internal policies affecting trade e.g., subsidies, standards and technical regulations, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, government procurement,
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trade-related investment measures, taxes and charges levied on imports and exports.
E. Intellectual property rights including intellectual property rights enforcement.
F. Services.
G. Rule of law issues e.g., transparency, judicial review, uniform administration of laws and regulations and status of legal reform.
H. Other WTO commitments.
In addition, given the United States view that China should be held accountable as a full participant in, and beneficiary of, the international trading system, USTR requests that commenters specifically identify unresolved compliance issues that warrant review and evaluation by USTRs China Enforcement Task Force.
III. Public Participation Due to COVID19, the TPSC will foster public participation via written submissions rather than an in-person hearing on Chinas compliance with the commitments made in connection with its accession to the WTO. In accordance with the schedule set out in the Dates section above, USTR invites written comments from the public. The TPSC
will review the written comments and may pose written clarifying questions to the commenters. The TPSC will post the written questions on the public docket, other than questions that include properly designated business confidential information BCI. USTR
will send questions that include properly designated BCI to the relevant commenters by email and will not post these questions on the public docket.
Written responses to questions that contain BCI must follow the procedures in section IV below.
IV. Requirements for Submissions In order to be assured of consideration, we must receive your written comments in English by 11:59
p.m. EDT on September 15, 2021. USTR
strongly encourages commenters to make online submissions, using REGS.GOV. On the first page, please identify the submission as Chinas WTO Compliance.
To submit comments via www.regulations.gov, enter docket number USTR20210015 on the home page and click search. The site will provide a search-results page listing all documents associated with this docket.
Find a reference to this notice and click on the link entitled comment now. For further information on using REGS.GOV, please consult the resources provided on the website by clicking on How to Use Regulations.gov on the
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