80_FR_29397 80 FR 29299 - Reporting for Calendar Year 2014 on Offsets Agreements Related to Sales of Defense Articles or Defense Services to Foreign Countries or Foreign Firms

80 FR 29299 - Reporting for Calendar Year 2014 on Offsets Agreements Related to Sales of Defense Articles or Defense Services to Foreign Countries or Foreign Firms

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 98 (May 21, 2015)

Page Range29299-29300
FR Document2015-12394

This notice is to remind the public that U.S. firms are required to report annually to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) information on contracts for the sale of defense articles or defense services to foreign countries or foreign firms that are subject to offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in value. U.S. firms are also required to report annually to Commerce information on offsets transactions completed in performance of existing offsets commitments for which offsets credit of $250,000 or more has been claimed from the foreign representative. This year, such reports must include relevant information from calendar year 2014 and must be submitted to Commerce no later than June 15, 2015.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 98 (Thursday, May 21, 2015) 
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

[Docket No. 150428403-5403-01]
RIN 0694-XC024


Reporting for Calendar Year 2014 on Offsets Agreements Related to 
Sales of Defense Articles or Defense Services to Foreign Countries or 
Foreign Firms

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; annual reporting requirements.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to remind the public that U.S. firms are 
required to

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report annually to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) information on 
contracts for the sale of defense articles or defense services to 
foreign countries or foreign firms that are subject to offsets 
agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in value. U.S. firms are also required 
to report annually to Commerce information on offsets transactions 
completed in performance of existing offsets commitments for which 
offsets credit of $250,000 or more has been claimed from the foreign 
representative. This year, such reports must include relevant 
information from calendar year 2014 and must be submitted to Commerce 
no later than June 15, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Reports should be addressed to ``Offsets Program Manager, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Strategic Industries and 
Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Room 3878, 
Washington, DC 20230.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald DeMarines, Office of Strategic 
Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, telephone: 202-482-3755; fax: 202-482-5650; 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Section 723(a)(1) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended 
(DPA) (50 U.S.C. app. 2172 (2009)), requires the President to submit an 
annual report to Congress on the impact of offsets on the U.S. defense 
industrial base. Section 723(a)(2) directs the Secretary of Commerce 
(Secretary) to prepare the President's report and to develop and 
administer the regulations necessary to collect offsets data from U.S. 
defense exporters.
    The authorities of the Secretary regarding offsets have been 
delegated to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. 
The regulations associated with offsets reporting are set forth in part 
701 of title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Offsets are 
compensation practices required as a condition of purchase in either 
government-to-government or commercial sales of defense articles and/or 
defense services, as defined by the Arms Export Control Act and the 
International Traffic in Arms Regulations. For example, a company that 
is selling a fleet of military aircraft to a foreign government may 
agree to offset the cost of the aircraft by providing training 
assistance to plant managers in the purchasing country. Although this 
distorts the true price of the aircraft, the foreign government may 
require this sort of extra compensation as a condition of awarding the 
contract to purchase the aircraft. As described in the regulations, 
U.S. firms are required to report information on contracts for the sale 
of defense articles or defense services to foreign countries or foreign 
firms that are subject to offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in 
value. U.S. firms are also required to report annually information on 
offsets transactions completed in performance of existing offsets 
commitments for which offsets credit of $250,000 or more has been 
claimed from the foreign representative.
    Commerce's annual report to Congress includes an aggregated summary 
of the data reported by industry in accordance with the offsets 
regulations and the DPA (50 U.S.C. app. 2172 (2009)). As provided by 
section 723(c) of the DPA, BIS will not publicly disclose individual 
firm information it receives through offsets reporting unless the firm 
furnishing the information specifically authorizes public disclosure. 
The information collected is sorted and organized into an aggregate 
report of national offsets data, and therefore does not identify 
company-specific information.
    In order to enable BIS to prepare the next annual offset report 
reflecting calendar year 2014 data, U.S. firms must submit required 
information on offsets agreements and offsets transactions from 
calendar year 2014 to BIS no later than June 15, 2015.

    Dated: May 18, 2015.
Kevin J. Wolf,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-12394 Filed 5-20-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-JT-P

29299 Notices Federal Register Vol. 80, No. 98 Thursday, May 21, 2015 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER Agriculture, Room 5336 South Building, response. NASS plans to mail out contains documents other than rules or 1400 Independence Avenue SW., publicity materials with the proposed rules that are applicable to the Washington, DC 20250–2024. questionnaires to inform producers of public. Notices of hearings and investigations, the importance of this survey. NASS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. committee meetings, agency decisions and will also use multiple mailings, rulings, delegations of authority, filing of Renee Picanso, Associate Administrator, petitions and applications and agency National Agricultural Statistics Service, followed up with phone and personal statements of organization and functions are U.S. Department of Agriculture, (202) enumeration to increase response rates examples of documents appearing in this 720–4333. Copies of this information and to minimize data collection costs. section. collection and related instructions can Respondents: Farmers and ranchers. be obtained without charge from David Estimated Number of Respondents: Hancock, NASS—OMB Clearance 350. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Officer, at (202) 690–2388 or at Estimated Total Annual Burden on ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. Respondents: 90 hours. National Agricultural Statistics Service Comments: Comments are invited on: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (a) Whether the proposed collection of Notice of Intent To Request Revision Title: Mink Survey. OMB Control Number: 0535–0212. information is necessary for the proper and Extension of a Currently Approved Expiration Date of Approval: January performance of the functions of the Information Collection 31, 2016. agency, including whether the Type of Request: Intent to Seek information will have practical utility; AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Approval to Revise and Extend an (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate Service, USDA. Information Collection for 3 years. of the burden of the proposed collection ACTION: Notice and request for Abstract: The primary objective of the of information, including the validity of comments. the methodology and assumptions used; National Agricultural Statistics Service SUMMARY: In accordance with the is to prepare and issue State and (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this national estimates of crop and livestock and clarity of the information to be notice announces the intention of the production, prices, and disposition. The collected; and (d) ways to minimize the National Agricultural Statistics Service Mink Survey collects data on the burden of the collection of information (NASS) to request revision and number of mink pelts produced, the on those who are to respond, through extension of a currently approved number of females bred, and the number the use of appropriate automated, information collection, the Mink of mink farms. Mink estimates are used electronic, mechanical, technological, or Survey. The target population will be by the federal government to calculate other forms of information technology pulled from farmers who have reported total value of sales and total cash collection methods. mink production in the past, trade receipts, by State governments to All responses to this notice will magazines, or grower’s association’s administer fur farm programs and health become a matter of public record and be lists. The questionnaire that NASS is regulations, and by universities in summarized in the request for OMB planning to use is the same as what was research projects. The current expiration approval. used in previous years, with one date for this docket is January 31, 2016. Signed at Washington, DC, May 5, 2015. additional pelt color class being added NASS intends to request that the Mink R. Renee Picanso, to both the producer and price Survey be approved for another 3 years. Associate Administrator. questionnaires. Any additional changes Authority: These data will be collected [FR Doc. 2015–12322 Filed 5–20–15; 8:45 am] to the questionnaires would result from under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). BILLING CODE 3410–20–P requests by industry data users. Individually identifiable data collected under DATES: Comments on this notice must be this authority are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985 as amended, received by July 20, 2015 to be assured 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to afford DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE of consideration. strict confidentiality to non-aggregated data ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, provided by respondents. This Notice is Bureau of Industry and Security identified by docket number 0535–0212, submitted in accordance with the Paperwork [Docket No. 150428403–5403–01] by any of the following methods: Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 • Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), and Office of RIN 0694–XC024 Include docket number above in the Management and Budget regulations at 5 CFR subject line of the message. part 1320. Reporting for Calendar Year 2014 on • E-fax: (855) 838–6382. NASS also complies with OMB Offsets Agreements Related to Sales • Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD– Implementation Guidance, of Defense Articles or Defense ROM submissions to: David Hancock, ‘‘Implementation Guidance for Title V Services to Foreign Countries or NASS Clearance Officer, U.S. of the E-Government Act, Confidential Foreign Firms tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Department of Agriculture, Room 5336 Information Protection and Statistical AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and South Building, 1400 Independence Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA),’’ Security, Department of Commerce. Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250– Federal Register, Vol. 72, No. 115, June ACTION: Notice; annual reporting 2024. 15, 2007, p. 33362. requirements. • Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand Estimate of Burden: Public reporting deliver to: David Hancock, NASS burden for this collection of information SUMMARY: This notice is to remind the Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of is estimated to average 10 minutes per public that U.S. firms are required to VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:28 May 20, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1

29300 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 98 / Thursday, May 21, 2015 / Notices report annually to the Department of require this sort of extra compensation Court) issued Navneet II, Commerce (Commerce) information on as a condition of awarding the contract sustained the Final Remand Results 2 contracts for the sale of defense articles to purchase the aircraft. As described in that the Department of Commerce (the or defense services to foreign countries the regulations, U.S. firms are required Department) issued in connection with or foreign firms that are subject to to report information on contracts for Navneet I. offsets agreements exceeding $5,000,000 the sale of defense articles or defense the Department recalculated the in value. U.S. firms are also required to services to foreign countries or foreign weighted-average dumping margin that report annually to Commerce firms that are subject to offsets was established for 51 companies that information on offsets transactions agreements exceeding $5,000,000 in neither failed to cooperate with the completed in performance of existing value. U.S. firms are also required to agency nor were selected for individual offsets commitments for which offsets report annually information on offsets investigation (hereinafter referred to as credit of $250,000 or more has been transactions completed in performance the non-selected respondents).4 claimed from the foreign representative. of existing offsets commitments for Consistent with the decision of the This year, such reports must include which offsets credit of $250,000 or more United States Court of Appeals for the relevant information from calendar year has been claimed from the foreign Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Timken, 2014 and must be submitted to representative. clarified by Diamond Sawblades, Commerce no later than June 15, 2015. Department is notifying the public that Commerce’s annual report to Congress the final judgment in this case is not in ADDRESSES: Reports should be includes an aggregated summary of the addressed to ‘‘Offsets Program Manager, harmony with the Department’s final data reported by industry in accordance results of the administrative review of U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of with the offsets regulations and the DPA Strategic Industries and Economic the antidumping duty order on certain (50 U.S.C. app. 2172 (2009)). As lined paper products from India Security, Bureau of Industry and provided by section 723(c) of the DPA, Security (BIS), Room 3878, Washington, covering the period of review September BIS will not publicly disclose 1, 2010, through August 31, 2011 (POR). DC 20230.’’ individual firm information it receives DATES: Effective Date: May 14, 2015. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: through offsets reporting unless the firm Ronald DeMarines, Office of Strategic FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: furnishing the information specifically Cindy Robinson, AD/CVD Operations Industries and Economic Security, authorizes public disclosure. The Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, information collected is sorted and International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, telephone: organized into an aggregate report of 202–482–3755; fax: 202–482–5650; U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th national offsets data, and therefore does Street and Constitution Avenue NW., email: ronald.demarines@bis.doc.gov. not identify company-specific SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) information. 482–3797. Background In order to enable BIS to prepare the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 723(a)(1) of the Defense next annual offset report reflecting calendar year 2014 data, U.S. firms must Background Production Act of 1950, as amended (DPA) (50 U.S.C. app. 2172 (2009)), submit required information on offsets On April 15, 2013, the Department requires the President to submit an agreements and offsets transactions from issued the Final Results. annual report to Congress on the impact calendar year 2014 to BIS no later than Education Ltd. (Navneet) 8 and eight of offsets on the U.S. defense industrial June 15, 2015. other companies 9 timely filed base. Section 723(a)(2) directs the Dated: May 18, 2015. 1 See Navneet Publications (India) Ltd. et al. v. Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to Kevin J. Wolf, United States, Court No. 13–00204, Slip. Op. 15– prepare the President’s report and to Assistant Secretary for Export 41 (CIT May 4, 2015) (Navneet II). develop and administer the regulations Administration. 2 See Final Results Of Redetermination Pursuant necessary to collect offsets data from To Court Remand, Court No. 13–00204, Slip Op. [FR Doc. 2015–12394 Filed 5–20–15; 8:45 am] 14–87 (December 4, 2014) (Final Remand Results), U.S. defense exporters. which is available at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ BILLING CODE 3510–JT–P The authorities of the Secretary remands/14-87.pdf. regarding offsets have been delegated to 3 See Navneet Publications (India) Ltd. v. United the Under Secretary of Commerce for States, Court No. 13–00204, Slip Op. 14–87 (CIT Industry and Security. The regulations DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE July 22, 2014) (Navneet I). 4 See Final Remand Results at 12–17. associated with offsets reporting are set International Trade Administration 5 See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 forth in part 701 of title 15 of the Code (Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken). of Federal Regulations. Offsets are 6 See Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. compensation practices required as a [A–533–843] United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) condition of purchase in either (Diamond Sawblades). government-to-government or Certain Lined Paper Products From 7 See Certain Lined Paper Products from India: commercial sales of defense articles India: Notice of Court Decision Not in Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Harmony With Final Results of Review; 2010–2011, 78 FR 22232 (April 15, 2013) and/or defense services, as defined by (Final Results) and accompanying Issues and the Arms Export Control Act and the Antidumping Duty Administrative Decision Memorandum (Final Decision International Traffic in Arms Review and Notice of Amended Final Memorandum). Regulations. For example, a company Results of Antidumping Duty 8 Navneet Education Ltd. (Navneet) was formally Administrative Review; 2010–2011 known as Navneet Publications (India) Ltd. See tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES that is selling a fleet of military aircraft Certain Lined Paper Products From India: Final to a foreign government may agree to Results of Changed Circumstances Review, 79 FR AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, offset the cost of the aircraft by 35727 (June 24, 2014) (Navneet CCR Final Results). International Trade Administration, 9 The other eight companies are: Marisa providing training assistance to plant Department of Commerce. International; Riddhi Enterprises, Ltd.; Super managers in the purchasing country. Impex; Pioneer Stationary Pvt. Ltd.; SGM Paper Although this distorts the true price of SUMMARY: On May 4, 2015, the United Products; SAB International; Lodha Offset Limited; the aircraft, the foreign government may States Court of International Trade (the and Magic International Pvt. Ltd. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice; annual reporting requirements.
ContactRonald DeMarines, Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, telephone: 202-482-3755; fax: 202-482-5650; email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 29299 
RIN Number0694-XC02
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