Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 2169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-764]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
clearance the following proposal for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-
13.
    Bureau: International Trade Administration.
    Title: Commercial News USA.
    Agency Form Number: ITA-4063P.
    OMB Number: 0625-0061.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement.
    Burden: 733 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 2,200.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Commercial News USA (CNUSA), published twelve times 
a year by a private sector firm, is the Department of Commerce's export 
catalogue-magazine. The product information in CNUSA reaches more than 
145,000 distributors, government officials, and potential buyers 
overseas through direct distribution from U.S. embassies and 
consulates. Firms use the form to request that their product 
information be published in CNUSA, a service for which they pay a 
minimum of $445.
    This information collection item allows the U.S. Department of 
Commerce to promote U.S. products and services available for export as 
well as part of the USDOC's trade promotion activities. CNUSA is a 
unique export promotion service for U.S. manufacturers, service firms, 
and publishers of trade and technical literature; nothing similar is 
available to them through the private sector. The product promotions in 
CNUSA differ from paid advertisements in that they must meet program 
criteria. Because U.S. embassies and consulates handle distribution, 
the product information reaches a vast, screened readership not only 
through direct dissemination but also through counseling by commercial 
officers and through walk-in visits to commercial libraries where CNUSA 
is displayed. Further, American Chambers of Commerce, local business 
editors, and other trade entities that reprint information from CNUSA 
or display or disseminate the entire magazine provide a multiplier 
effect.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit, 
voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-7340.
    Copies of the above information collection can be obtained by 
calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Department Forms Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 
10202, New Executive Office Building, Washington D.C. 20503 within 30 
days of the publication of this notice in the Federal Register.

    Dated: January 8, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Department Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-764 Filed 1-12-99; 8:45 am]
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