[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR315.2]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER III--INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 315_DETERMINATION OF BONA FIDE MOTOR-VEHICLE MANUFACTURER--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  315.2  Definitions.

    For the purpose of the regulations in this part and the forms issued 
to implement it:
    (a) Act means the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 
1016, 19 U.S.C. 2001 through 2033).
    (b) Under Secretary means Under Secretary for International Trade of 
the

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Department of Commerce, or such official as may be designated by the 
Under Secretary to act in his or her behalf.
    (c) Motor vehicle means a motor vehicle of a kind described in item 
692.05 or 692.10 of subpart B, part 6, schedule 6, of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States (excluding an electric trolley bus and a 
three-wheeled vehicle) or an automotive truck tractor.
    (d) Bona fide motor-vehicle manufacturer means a person who upon 
application to the Under Secretary is determined by the Under Secretary 
to have produced no fewer than 15 complete motor vehicles in the United 
States during the 12-month period preceding the date certified in the 
application, and to have had as of such date installed capacity in the 
United States to produce 10 or more complete motor vehicles per 40-hour 
week. A person shall only be regarded as having had the capacity to 
produce a complete motor vehicle if his operation included the assembly 
of two or more major components (e.g., the attachment of a body to a 
chassis) to create a new motor vehicle ready for use.
    (e) Person includes any individual, corporation, partnership, 
association, company, or any kind of organization.
    (f) United States includes only the States, the District of Columbia 
and Puerto Rico.

[45 FR 42214, June 23, 1980. Redesignated and amended at 53 FR 52115, 
Dec. 27, 1988]