[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR2006.8]

[Page 443-444]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
      CHAPTER XX--OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
 
PART 2006--PROCEDURES FOR FILING PETITIONS FOR ACTION UNDER SECTION 301 
OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2006.8  Submission of written briefs.

    (a) In order to participate in the presentation of views either at a 
public hearing or otherwise, an interested person must submit a written 
brief before the close of the period of submission announced in the 
public notice. The brief may be, but need not be, supplemented by the 
presentation of oral testimony in any public hearing scheduled in 
accordance with Sec. 2006.7.
    (b) The brief shall state clearly the position taken and shall 
describe with particularity the supporting rationale. It shall be 
submitted in 20 copies, which must be legibly typed, printed, or 
duplicated.
    (c) In order to assure each interested person an opportunity to 
contest the

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information provided by other parties, the Section 301 Committee will 
entertain rebuttal briefs filed by any interested person within a time 
limit specified in the public notice. Rebuttal briefs should be strictly 
limited to demonstrating errors of fact or analysis not pointed out in 
the briefs or hearing and should be as concise as possible.