CITA Designates Certain Woven Cotton Napped Fabrics for Use in Certain Apparel as "Commercially Unavailable" under CBTPA
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice containing its determination that certain woven 100% cotton, napped fabrics, of certain specifications1, classified in HTS 5209.31.6050, 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 shirts, trousers, nightwear, robes, dressing gowns, and woven underwear2 that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in one or more eligible CBTPA beneficiary countries from these fabrics that are not formed in the U.S. to enter free 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.
(CITA's "commercially unavailable" designation for such fabrics is the result of a petition it received on behalf of Picacho, S.A. See ITT's Online Archives or 08/19/04 news, 04081925, for BP summary.)
1 See CITA's notice for specifications on the petitioner style number, fiber content, weight, width, thread count, yarn number, and finish of the two fabrics at issue.
2 Textile categories 340, 341, 347, 348, 350, 351, and woven underwear in 352
CITA contact - Janet Heinzen (202) 482-3400
CITA notice (FR Pub 12/27/04) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/E4-3822.pdf