CITA Designates Certain Viscose Yarn for Use in Manufacturing Fabrics for Apparel as "Commercially Unavailable" under the AGOA and CBTPA
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has determined that, effective March 5, 2004, certain viscose yarn, classified in HTS 5510.11.0000, for use in manufacturing fabrics, cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA).
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Accordingly, CITA is designating as eligible to enter free of quotas and duties under HTS 9819.11.24 (AGOA) or HTS 9820.11.27 (CBTPA) such apparel articles that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in one or more eligible AGOA or CBTPA countries from U.S. formed fabrics containing such yarns, provided that all other yarns are U.S. formed and all other fabrics are U.S. formed from yarns wholly formed in the U.S., including fabrics not formed from yarns, if such fabrics are classifiable under HTS 5602 or 5603 and are wholly formed in the U.S.
According to CITA, the yarn that it has designated as commercially unavailable is micro-denier 30 singles and 36 singles solution dyed, open-end spun, staple spun viscose yarn.
(CITA's commercially unavailable designation for this yarn is a result of a petition it received on November 3, 2003 from Fabrictex. See ITT's Online Archives or 11/14/03 news, 03111425, for BP summary.)
CITA contact - Janet Heinzen (202) 482-3400
CITA notice (FR Pub 03/05/04) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-4990.pdf