Notice2024-18190
Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for the Office of Management and Budget To Approve Renewal of the Collection of Information Titled `301 Exclusion Requests'
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Published
August 15, 2024
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Trade Representative, Office of United States
Abstract
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is submitting a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reinstate an expired information collection request (ICR) titled 301 Exclusion Requests under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its implementing regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 158 (Thursday, August 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for the Office
of Management and Budget To Approve Renewal of the Collection of
Information Titled `301 Exclusion Requests'
AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.
ACTION: 30-Day notice with a request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is
submitting a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to
reinstate an expired information collection request (ICR) titled 301
Exclusion Requests under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and
its implementing regulations.
DATES: Submit comments no later than September 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments on the information collection through
<a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection titled 301 Exclusion Requests by selecting
`Currently under Review-Open for Public Comments' or by using the
search function. The OMB control number for this information collection
is 0350-0015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant General Counsel Rachel
Hasandras at 202.395.5725.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Comments
Submit written comments and suggestions to OMB addressing one or
more of the following four points:
(1) Whether the ICR is necessary for the proper performance of
USTR's functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility.
(2) The accuracy of USTR's estimate of the burden of the ICR,
including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the ICR.
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of the ICR on those who are to
respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
B. Overview of This Information Collection
Title: 301 Exclusion Requests.
OMB Control Number: 0350-0015, which expired on January 31, 2023.
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Form Number(s): 301 Exclusion Request/Response/Reply Form;
Exclusion Extension Comment.
Description: Following a comprehensive review of the July 6, 2018,
and the August 23, 2018 actions, as modified, in the Section 301
Investigation of China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to
Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation, the
President directed the U.S. Trade Representative to establish a process
by which interested persons may request that particular machinery used
in domestic manufacturing classified within a subheading under Chapters
84 and 85 of the of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) be temporarily excluded from Section 301 tariffs (machinery
exclusion process).
Consistent with the President's direction, on May 28, 2024, USTR
published a notice announcing that the U.S. Trade Representative was
establishing an exclusion process and requested comments on whether
certain subheadings under Chapters 84 and 85 of the HTSUS should or
should not be eligible for consideration of temporary exclusion. See 89
FR 46252.
The ICR is included as an annex to this notice.
Affected Public: U.S. stakeholders who want to request, or respond
to a request, to exclude particular products from the additional duties
on products from China.
Frequency of Submission: One submission per request, response,
reply or comment.
Respondent Universe: U.S. stakeholders.
Reporting Burden:
Total Estimated Responses: 5,000 requests to exclude a particular
product, 1,000 responses to a product exclusion request, and 750
replies to a response.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: USTR estimates that preparing and
submitting a request to exclude a particular product will take
approximately 90 minutes and will cost about $175 per submission. The
total time burden for requests is 7,500 hours (5,000 requests x 90
minutes) and the estimated total cost is $875,000 (5,000 requests x
$175 per submission).
USTR estimates that preparing and submitting a response to a
product exclusion request will take approximately 45 minutes, and will
cost about $100 per submission. The total time burden for responses is
750 hours (1,000 responses x 45 minutes) and the estimated total cost
is $100,000 (1,000 responses x $100 per submission).
USTR estimates that preparing and submitting a reply will take
approximately 45 minutes, and will cost about $100 per submission. The
total time burden for replies is 563 hours (750 replies x 45 minutes)
and the estimated total cost is $75,000 (750 replies x $100 per
submission).
USTR estimates that it will take staff about 75 minutes to evaluate
each request, response or reply or a total time burden of approximately
8,438 hours (6,750 requests/responses/replies x 75 minutes) at an
estimated total cost of $813,000. The $813,000 total cost estimate
includes the average annual salary plus benefits, for the federal
employees and contractors expected to work on the exclusion process.
USTR estimates that it will take approximately one year to complete the
process.
Status: Pursuant to the PRA and its implementing regulations, USTR
is submitting a request to OMB to renew approval of this ICR for three
years.
C. Requirements for Submissions
You must submit written comments by the deadline set forth in this
notice. Submit comments about the ICR, including the title 301
Exclusion Requests, to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
at OMB, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8be4e2f9ead4f8fee9e6e2f8f8e2e4e5f8cbe4e6e9a5eee4fba5ece4fd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="412e2833201e3234232c283232282e2f32012e2c236f242e316f262e37">[email protected]</span></a>, or 725 Seventeenth Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: USTR Desk Officer.
Juan Millan,
Acting General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade
Representative.
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