[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR2003.1]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

      CHAPTER XX--OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

 

PART 2003_REGULATIONS OF TRADE POLICY STAFF COMMITTEE--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 2003.1  Notice of public hearings.



    The Committee shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of a 

proposed public hearing, the subject matter of the proposed public 

hearing, the period during which written briefs may be submitted, the 

period during which requests may be submitted to present oral testimony, 

and the time and place of the proposed public hearing, in the following 

instances:

    (a) Upon publication of lists of articles by the President under 

section 131(a), or sections 503(a) and 131(a), of the Trade Act as a 

result of which public hearings are required to be held by section 133 

of the Trade Act with respect to any matter relevant to a proposed trade 

agreement, or with respect to any matter relevant to the granting of 

generalized tariff preferences for the listed articles;

    (b) Whenever the Special Representative or the Deputy Special 

Representative determines that public hearings in connection with the 

review of a request submitted pursuant to Part 2007 of these 

regulations, pertaining to the duty-free treatment accorded to articles 

under the GSP, are in the public interest.

    (c) Upon instructions of the Special Representative.



[40 FR 18421, Apr. 28, 1975, as amended at 40 FR 39498, Aug. 28, 1975; 

40 FR 60042, Dec. 31, 1975]