[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: 15CFR2009.1]



[Page 479-480]

 

                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

      CHAPTER XX--OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

 

PART 2009_PROCEDURES FOR REPRESENTATIONS UNDER SECTION 422 OF THE TRADE 

AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 2009.1  Information required in representation.



    (a) Each representation submitted under section 422 should state 

clearly on the first page that the representation is a request for 

action with respect to the obligations of the United States under the 

Agreement, and should contain the following information:

    (1) The foreign country making the representation, the division of 

the foreign country's government representing that country's interest, 

the person(s) within the division who is (are) coordinating the foreign 

country's representation.

    (2) A description of the standards-related activity at issues, 

including, whenever possible, copies of the standards-related activity's 

provisions.

    (3) Identification of the foreign goods or services affected by the 

standards-related activity at issue.

    (4) A statement of how the standards-related activity concerned is 

alleged to



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violate the obligations of the United States under the Agreement. This 

statement shoud indicate with particularity which such obligations are 

alleged to be violated.

    (5) Indication as to whether the foreign country has officially 

petitioned, filed or complained for relief concerning the same subject 

matter as this representation to any international forum.

    (b) Each representation submitted under section 422 of the Act must 

contain information sufficient to provide a reasonable indication that 

the standards-related activity concerned is having a significant trade 

effect, including (but not limited to) the volume of trade in the goods 

concerned.

    (c) Representations should be submitted in 10 copies.



(5 U.S.C. 301; 19 U.S.C. 2504(b), 2551-2554; E.O. 11846, 40 FR 14291; 

Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1979, 44 FR 69173; E.O. 12188, 45 FR 989)



[47 FR 50207, Nov. 5, 1982]