[Federal
Register: October 23, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 204)]
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DEPARTMENT
OF COMMERCE
International
Trade Administration
Export
Trade Certificate of Review
AGENCY:
International Trade Administration, Commerce.
ACTION:
Notice of application for an Export Trade Certificate of Review
from
Houston Industries, USA, L.L.C.
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SUMMARY:
Export Trading Company Affairs (``ETCA''), International Trade
Administration,
Department of Commerce, has received an application for
an
Export Trade Certificate of Review (``Certificate''). This notice
summarizes
the conduct for which certification is sought and requests
comments
relevant to whether the Certificate should be issued.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Anspacher, Director, Export
Trading
Company Affairs, International Trade Administration, by
telephone
at (202) 482-5131 (this is not a toll-free number) or E-mail
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act
of
1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to
issue
Export Trade Certificates of Review. An Export Trade Certificate
of
Review protects the holder and the members identified in the
Certificate
from state and federal government antitrust actions and
from
private treble damage antitrust actions for the export conduct
specified
in the Certificate and carried out in compliance with its
terms
and conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the Export Trading Company
Act
of 1982 and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the Secretary to publish a
notice
in the Federal Register identifying the applicant and
summarizing
its proposed export conduct.
Request
for Public Comments
Interested parties may submit written
comments relevant to the
determination
whether a Certificate should be issued. If the comments
include
any privileged or confidential business information, it must be
clearly
marked and a nonconfidential version of the comments
(identified
as such) should be included. Any comments not marked
privileged
or confidential business information will be deemed to be
nonconfidential.
An original and five (5) copies, plus two (2) copies
of
the nonconfidential version, should be submitted no later than 20
days
after the date of this notice to: Export Trading Company Affairs,
International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room
7021-B
H, Washington, DC 20230. Information submitted by any person is
exempt
from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552).
However, nonconfidential versions of the comments will be made
available
to the applicant if necessary for determining whether or not
to
issue the Certificate. Comments should refer to this application as
``Export
Trade Certificate of Review, application number 07-00004.'' A
summary
of the application follows.
Summary
of the Application
Applicant: Houston Industries, USA, L.L.C.
(``HIUSA''), 2319 East
Highland
Avenue 354s, Phoenix, Arizona 85016.
Contact: Paul A. Houston, President,
Telephone: (615) 293-4116.
Application No.: 07-00004.
Date Deemed Submitted: October 16, 2007.
Members (in addition to applicant): None.
HIUSA seeks a Certificate to cover the
following specific Export
Trade,
Export Markets, and Export Trade Activities and Methods of
Operations.
Export
Trade
1.
Products
All Products.
2.
Services
All Services.
3.
Technology Rights
Technology rights, including, but not
limited to, patents,
trademarks,
copyrights, and trade secrets that relate to Products and
Services.
4.
Export Trade Facilitation Services (as They Relate to the Export of
Products,
Services and Technology Rights)
Export Trade Facilitation Services,
including, but not limited to,
professional
services in the areas of government relations and
assistance
with state and federal programs; foreign trade and business
protocol;
consulting; market research and analysis; collection of
information
on trade opportunities; marketing; negotiations; joint
ventures;
shipping; export management; export licensing; advertising;
documentation
and services related to compliance with customs
requirements;
insurance and financing; trade show exhibitions;
organizational
development; management and labor strategies; transfer
of
technology; transportation services; and facilitating the formation
of
shippers' associations.
Export
Markets
The Export Markets include all parts of
the world except the United
States
(the fifty states of the United States, the District of
Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa,
Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the
Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands).
Export
Trade Activities and Methods of Operation
1.
With respect to the sale of Products and Services, licensing of
Technology
Rights and provision of Export Trade Facilitation Services,
HIUSA
may:
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a. Provide and/or arrange for the
provisions of Export Trade
Facilitation
Services;
b. Engage in promotional and marketing
activities and collect
information
on trade opportunities in the Export Markets and distribute
such
information to clients;
c. Enter into exclusive and/or
non-exclusive licensing and/or sales
agreements
with Suppliers for the export of Products, Services, and/or
Technology
Rights to Export Markets;
d. Enter into exclusive and/or
non-exclusive arrangements with
distributors
and/or sales representatives in Export Markets;
e. Allocate export sales or divide Export
Markets among Suppliers
for
the sale and/or licensing of Products, Services, and/or Technology
Rights;
f. Allocate export orders among Suppliers;
g. Establish the price of Products,
Services, and/or Technology
Rights
for sales and/or licensing in Export Markets;
h. Negotiate, enter into, and/or manage
licensing agreements for
the
export of Technology Rights; and
i. Enter into contracts for shipping.
2. HIUSA and its individual Suppliers may
regularly exchange
information
on a one-on-one basis regarding that Supplier's inventories
and
near-term production schedules so HIUSA may determine the
availability
of Products for export and effectively coordinated with
its
distributors in Export Markets.
Dated: October 17, 2007.
Jeffrey
Anspacher,
Director,
Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR
Doc. E7-20787 Filed 10-22-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING
CODE 3510-DR-P