Wool & MMF shipment - 2005 excess agreement limits

29 Dec '05

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The International Trade Administration's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) announced the entry of shipments of wool and man-made fiber textiles and apparel in excess of 2005 agreement limits

Agency: The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA)

Action: Directive to Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection.

Supplementary Information:
Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended; Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854).

In the letter to the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection published below, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is directed to implement staged entry limits for Belarus for shipments in excess of 2005 agreement limits.

CITA has previously established a policy of only allowing entry of shipments in excess of quota limits once a new quota year has begun, and there is an agreement with the exporting country that allows overshipments to be charged to the subsequent year's quotas.

In a Federal Register Notice published on June 25, 2004, CITA announced that it had come to CITA's attention that some textile and apparel products may be shipped in excess of agreed quota limits in 2004 with the expectation that those shipments will be allowed entry upon the expiration of the limits, and CITA noted that shipments exported in excess of agreed limits are a violation of the terms of those agreements.

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