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specifications and the production
capabilities of Panamanian 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
Panama, subject to Section 203(o) 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 OTEXA’s Web
site. 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: 0625–0273.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Business or for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
16.
Estimated Time per Response: 8 hours
per Request, 2 hours per Response, and
1 hour per Rebuttal.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 89.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $5,340.

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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: February 19, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–03971 Filed 2–24–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Interim Procedures
for Considering Requests From the
Public for Textile and Apparel
Safeguard Actions on Imports From
Panama
International Trade
Administration (ITA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

On behalf of the Committee
for the Implementation for Textile
Agreements (CITA), the Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before April 25, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at jjessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Laurie Mease, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Telephone: 202–482–
2043, Email: Laurie.Mease@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
Title III, Subtitle B, Section 321
through Section 328 of the United
States-Panama Trade Promotion
Agreement Implementation Act (the
‘‘Act’’) [Pub. L. 112–43] implements the
textile and apparel safeguard provisions,
provided for in Article 3.24 of the
United States-Panama Trade Promotion
Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’). This
safeguard mechanism applies when, as
a result of the elimination of a customs
duty under the Agreement, a
Panamanian textile or apparel article is
being imported into the United States in
such increased quantities, in absolute
terms or relative to the domestic market
for that article, and under such
conditions as to cause serious damage or
actual threat thereof to a U.S. industry
producing a like or directly competitive
article. In these circumstances, Article
3.24 permits the United States to
increase duties on the imported article

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from Panama to a level that does not
exceed the lesser of the prevailing U.S.
normal trade relations (NTR)/mostfavored-nation (MFN) duty rate for the
article or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate
in effect on the day the Agreement
entered into force.
The Statement of Administrative
Action accompanying the Act provides
that the Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(CITA) will issue procedures for
requesting such safeguard measures, for
making its determinations under
Section 322(a) of the Act, and for
providing relief under section 322(b) of
the Act.
In Proclamation No. 8894 (77 FR
66507, November 5, 2012), the President
delegated to CITA his authority under
Subtitle B of Title III of the Act with
respect to textile and apparel safeguard
measures.
CITA must collect information in
order to determine whether a domestic
textile or apparel industry is being
adversely impacted by imports of these
products from Panama, thereby allowing
CITA to take corrective action to protect
the viability of the domestic textile
industry, subject to section 322(b) of the
Act.
Pursuant to Section 321(a) of the Act
and Paragraph (7) of Presidential
Proclamation 8894, an interested party
in the U.S. domestic textile and apparel
industry may file a request for a textile
and apparel safeguard action with CITA.
Consistent with longstanding CITA
practice in considering textile safeguard
actions, CITA will consider an
interested party to be an entity (which
may be a trade association, firm,
certified or recognized union, or group
of workers) that is representative of
either: (A) A domestic producer or
producers of an article that is like or
directly competitive with the subject
Panamanian textile or apparel article; or
(B) a domestic producer or producers of
a component used in the production of
an article that is like or directly
competitive with the subject
Panamanian textile or apparel article.
In order for a request to be
considered, the requestor must provide
the following information in support of
a claim that a textile or apparel article
from Panama is being imported into the
United States in such increased
quantities, in absolute terms or relative
to the domestic market for that article,
and under such conditions as to cause
serious damage or actual threat thereof,
to a U.S. industry producing an article
that is like or directly competitive with
the imported article: (1) Name and
description of the imported article
concerned; (2) import data

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demonstrating that imports of a
Panamanian origin textile or apparel
article that are like or directly
competitive with the articles produced
by the domestic industry concerned are
increasing in absolute terms or relative
to the domestic market for that article;
(3) U.S. domestic production of the like
or directly competitive articles of U.S.
origin indicating the nature and extent
of the serious damage or actual threat
thereof, along with an affirmation that to
the best of the requestor’s knowledge,
the data represent substantially all of
the domestic production of the like or
directly competitive article(s) of U.S.
origin; (4) imports from Panama as a
percentage of the domestic market of the
like or directly competitive article; and
(5) all data available to the requestor
showing changes in productivity,
utilization of capacity, inventories,
exports, wages, employment, domestic
prices, profits, and investment, and any
other information, relating to the
existence of serious damage or actual
threat thereof caused by imports from
Panama to the industry producing the
like or directly competitive article that
is the subject of the request. To the
extent that such information is not
available, the requestor should provide
best estimates and the basis therefore.
If CITA determines that the request
provides the information necessary for it
to be considered, CITA will publish a
notice in the Federal Register seeking
public comments regarding the request.
The comment period shall be 30
calendar days. The notice will include
a summary of the request. Any
interested party may submit information
to rebut, clarify, or correct public
comments submitted by any interested
party.
CITA will make a determination on
any request it considers within 60
calendar days of the close of the
comment period. If CITA is unable to
make a determination within 60
calendar days, it will publish a notice in
the Federal Register, including the date
it will make a determination.
If a determination under Section
322(a) of the Act is affirmative, CITA
may provide tariff relief to a U.S.
industry to the extent necessary to
remedy or prevent serious damage or
actual threat thereof and to facilitate
adjustment by the domestic industry to
import competition. The import tariff
relief is effective beginning on the date
that CITA’s affirmative determination is
published in the Federal Register.
Entities submitting requests,
responses or rebuttals to CITA may
submit both a public and confidential
version of their submissions. If the
request is accepted, the public version

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will be posted on the dedicated U.S.Panama Trade Promotion Agreement
textile safeguards section of the Office of
Textile and Apparel (OTEXA) Web site.
The confidential version of the request,
responses or rebuttals will not be shared
with the public as it may contain
business confidential information.
Entities submitting responses or
rebuttals may use the public version of
the request as a basis for responses.
II. Method of Collection
When an interested party files a
request for a textile and apparel
safeguard action with CITA, ten copies
of any such request must be provided in
a paper format. If business confidential
information is provided, two copies of
a non-confidential version must also be
provided. If CITA determines that the
request provides the necessary
information to be considered, it will
publish a Federal Register notice
seeking public comments on the
request.
To the extent business confidential
information is provided, a nonconfidential version must also be
provided. Any interested party may
submit information to rebut, clarify, or
correct public comments submitted by
any interested party.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0625–0274.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 6
(1 for Request; 5 for Comments).
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
for a Request; and 4 hours for each
Comment.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 24.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $960.
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.

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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: February 19, 2016.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–03972 Filed 2–24–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–040]

Truck and Bus Tires From the People’s
Republic of China: Initiation of
Antidumping Duty Investigation
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective: February 18, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Yang Jin Chun or Andre Gziryan, AD/
CVD Operations Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–5760 and (202) 482–2201,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:

The Petition
On January 29, 2016, the Department
of Commerce (the Department) received
an antidumping duty (AD) petition
concerning imports of truck and bus
tires from the People’s Republic of
China (the PRC) officially filed in proper
form on behalf of the United Steel,
Paper and Forestry, Rubber,
Manufacturing, Energy, Allied
Industrial and Service Workers
International Union, AFL–CIO, CLC
(USW or the petitioner).1 The AD
petition was accompanied by a
countervailing duty (CVD) petition
concerning imports of truck and bus
tires from the PRC. The petitioner is a
recognized union, which represents the
domestic industry engaged in the
manufacture of truck and bus tires in
the United States. On February 3, 2016,
the Department requested additional
information and clarification of certain
areas of the Petition 2 and on February
1 See ‘‘Petition for the Imposition of Antidumping
Duties on Imports of Truck and Bus Tires from the
People’s Republic of China’’ dated January 29, 2016
(the Petition).
2 See Letters to the petitioner, ‘‘Petition for the
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing

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