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Export Trading Company Affairs (ETCA)

The Export Trade Certificate of Review Program - The Competitive Edge for U.S. Exporters

[Federal Register: July 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 138)][Notices]

[Page 41032]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[Application No. 88-10A16]

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Issuance of an Amended Export Trade Certificate of

Review to Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America (``WMMA'').

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued an amended Export

Trade Certificate of Review (``Certificate'') to the Wood Machinery

Manufacturers of America (``WMMA'') on July 9, 2008. WMMA's application

to amend its Certificate was announced in the Federal Register on April

21, 2008 (73 FR 21316). The original Certificate No. 88-00016 was

issued to WMMA on February 3, 1989, and announced in the Federal

Register on February 9, 1989 (54 FR 6312). The most recent amendment,

No. 88-9A016, was issued to WMMA on August 8, 2005, and announced in

the Federal Register on August 12, 2005 (70 FR 47178).

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 E-mail

at oetca@ita.doc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act

of 1982 (15 U.S.C. Sections 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 (2006).

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

WMMA's Export Trade Certificate of Review has been amended to:

1. Add each of the following companies as a new ``Member'' of the

Certificate within the meaning of section 325.2(l) of the Regulations

(15 CFR 325.2(l)): Mattison Rotary Lathes, LLC, La Center, Kentucky;

Safety Speed Cut Manufacturing Company, Inc., Ham Lake, Minnesota;

Western Cutterheads, Inc., La Center, Kentucky.

2. Reinstate as a ``Member'' of the Certificate within the meaning

of section 325.2(l) of the Regulations (15 CFR 325.2(l)): The Original

Saw Co. (``OSC''), Britt, Iowa. OSC ceased to be a Member on April 12,

2007, when WMMA submitted an annual report that relinquished OSC's

membership. WMMA seeks to reinstate OSC as a Member of the Certificate.

3. Delete the following company as a ``Member'' of WMMA's

Certificate: Warsaw Machinery, Inc., Warsaw, Indiana.

The effective date of the amended certificate is April 10, 2008,

the date on which WMMA's application to amend was deemed submitted. 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: July 11, 2008.

Jeffrey Anspacher,

Director, Export Trading Company Affairs