[Federal
Register: February 23, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 35)]
[Notices]
[Page
8766-8767]
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DEPARTMENT
OF COMMERCE
International
Trade Administration
Export
Trade Certificate of Review
ACTION:
Notice of issuance of an amended Export Trade Certificate of
Review,
Application No.: 97-8A003.
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SUMMARY:
The U.S. Department of Commerce issued an amended Export Trade
Certificate
of Review to the Association for the Administration of Rice
Quotas,
Inc. (``AARQ'') on February 14, 2005. The Certificate has been
amended
eight times. The most recent previous amendment was issued to
AARQ
on March 3, 2004, and published in the Federal Register March 18,
2004
(69 FR 12831). The original Export Trade Certificate of Review No.
97-00003
was issued to AARQ on January 21, 1998, and published in the
Federal
Register on January 28, 1998 (63 FR 4220).
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 by e-
mail
at oetca@ita.doc.gov.
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. The regulations implementing
Title
III are found at 15 CFR part 325 (2005).
Export Trading Company Affairs is issuing
this notice pursuant to
15
CFR 325.6(b), which requires the Department of Commerce to publish a
summary
of the certification in the Federal Register. Under section
305(a)
of the Act and 15 CFR 325.11(a), any person aggrieved by the
Secretary's
determination may, within 30 days of the date of this
notice,
bring an action in any appropriate district court of the United
States
to set aside the determination on the ground that the
determination
is erroneous.
Description
of Amended Certificate
AARQ's Export Trade Certificate of Review
has been amended to:
1. Reflect the name, address, and
corporate changes as follows:
``American
Rice, Inc., Houston, Texas'' is amended to read ``American
Rice,
Inc., Houston Texas (a subsidiary of SOS Cuetara USA, Inc.)'' due
to
a corporate acquisition. ``Kitoku America, Inc., Davis, California
(a
subsidiary of Kitoku Shinryo Co., Ltd.)'' is amended to read
``Kitoku
America, Inc., Burlingame, California (a subsidiary of Kitoku
Shinryo
Co., Ltd. (Japan))'' due
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to
an address change. ``Mermentau Rice, Inc., Mermentau, Louisiana'' is
amended
to read ``Louisiana Rice Mill, LLC, Mermentau, Louisiana'' due
to
a corporate name change. ``Newfieldrice, Inc., Miami, Florida'' is
amended
to read ``Newfieldrice, Inc., Miramar, Florida'' due to an
address
change. ``Nishimoto Trading Company, Ltd., Los Angeles,
California
(a subsidiary of Nishimoto Trading Company, Ltd. (Japan))''
is
amended to read ``Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd., Santa Fe Springs,
California
(a subsidiary of Nishimoto Trading Company, Ltd. (Japan))''
due
to an address change. ``Riviana Foods, Inc. Houston, Texas'' is
amended
to read ``Riviana Foods Inc., Houston, Texas (a subsidiary of
Ebro
Puleva, S.A. (Spain))'' due to a corporate acquisition.
2. Delete the following companies as
Members of the Certificate:
``ACH
Food Companies, Inc., Cordova, Tennessee,'' and ``KD
International
Trading, Inc., Stockton, California (a subsidiary of
Sunshine
Business Enterprises, Inc.).''
In addition to the above, the Export Trade
Activities and Methods
of
Operation of AARQ's Certificate have been updated to delete obsolete
references
to AARQ's earlier years of operation. Also, for
clarification
regarding the disposition of left over quantities from
the
bidding process, the following text has been added to item 2.F.(a)
of
the Export Trade Activities and Methods of Operation: ``In the event
fewer
than 18 metric tons remain at the conclusion of the bidding
process,
the Administrator shall first offer the remaining quantity in
succession
to each of the next highest bidders, and then in succession
from
the highest to the lowest successful bidder(s).''
The effective date of the amended
certificate is November 17, 2004.
A
copy of the amended certificate will be kept in the International
Trade
Administration's Freedom of Information Records Inspection
Facility,
Room 4001, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: February 16, 2005.
Jeffrey
Anspacher,
Director,
Export Trading Company Affairs.
[FR
Doc. E5-739 Filed 2-22-05; 8:45 am]