CITA Designates Certain Cotton Flannel for Use in Apparel Covered by 7 Categories as "Commercially Unavailable" Under CBTPA
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued two notices containing its determinations that certain woven, 100% cotton, flannel fabrics, of certain specifications, classified in HTS 5208.32.3040, 5208.42.3000, 5209.31.6050, or 5209.41.6040, for use in products covered by apparel categories 340, 341, 347, 348, 350, 351, and 352, cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner under the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA).
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Accordingly, CITA is designating products covered by apparel categories 340, 341, 347, 348, 350, 351, and 352 that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in one or more eligible CBTPA beneficiary countries from such fabrics not formed in the U.S. as eligible to enterfree of quota and duties under HTS 9820.11.27, provided that all other fabrics are wholly formed in the U.S. from yarns wholly formed in the U.S., subject to the special rules for findings and trimmings, certain interlinings and de minimis fibers and yarns under section 112(d) of the CBTPA, and that such articles are imported directly into the customs territory of the U.S. from an eligible CBTPA beneficiary country.
(These "commercially unavailable" designations for such fabrics are the result of petitions that CITA received on behalf of Picacho, S.A. See ITT's Online Archives or 07/26/04 and 08/09/04 news, 04072620 and 04080935, for BP summaries.)
See CITA's notices for specifications on style number, fiber content, weight, width, thread count, yarn number, and finish.
CITA contact - Janet Heinzen (202) 482-3400
CITA notices (FR Pub 11/30/04) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/E4-3387.pdf and http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/E4-3388.pdf