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Federal
Register Watch by Mike Powers December
9 - 13,
2002
The Federal
Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules,
and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive
Orders and other Presidential Documents.
This column attempts to summarize the highlights (or lowlights)
of the Federal Register during the preceding week. Instructions
for subscribing to the Federal Register can be found at the end of the
column. Committee
for the Implementation of Textile Agreements – Trade
Limits and Quotas on Textile Imports Additional
trade limits on cotton, wool, and man-made textiles produced or
manufactured overseas. Incidentally,
the gross national income per capita of these four countries, in U.S.
dollars, ranges from $260 to $2020 per year.
Perhaps it is the administration’s goal to keep them as poor as
possible by limiting their trade opportunities. The
Foreign-Trade
Zones Board – The
Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce has submitted an application
requesting a special subzone status for Hyundai Motor Manufacturing of
Alabama, pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones Act. FTZ
procedures would exempt Hyundai from customs duty payments on the
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales and
exports to NAFTA countries, Hyundai would be able to choose the lesser
duty rate that applies to finished passenger vehicles in order to
improve the plant's international competitiveness. In
other words, the application asks the bureaucrats to step aside in order
to improve productivity. Certainly
an admirable goal, but it is unfortunate that it requires a government
petition to do so. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31036.htm Rural
Utilities Service – Announcement
of $14.9 million in grants to assist communities with high energy costs.
Unabashed wealth redistribution, pure and simple.
Authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, a dinosaur
leftover from the New Deal era. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31056.htm
Fish and Wildlife Service – Designation of Critical Habitat for the Otay Tarplant The
Department of the Interior has designated approximately 6,330 acres in But
why should they care? It’s not their money. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-30890.htm
Committee
for the Implementation of Textile Agreements – Even
more limits on foreign-made textiles.
This time, the victims are producers in Indian
Affairs Bureau (IAB) – Finding Against Federal Acknowledgement of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation The
IAB, a division of the Department of the Interior, proposes to decline
acknowledgement that the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation exists as an Indian
tribe within the meaning of federal law.
Too
bad for the Schaghticoke, as the designation would allow them to do all
kinds of cool things, like sell tax-free cigarettes and operate casinos.
Of course, it would probably entitle them to government handouts
as well. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31229.htm Local
Television Loan Guarantee Board – On
Television
as an entitlement? What will
they think of next? http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31055.htm Department
of Treasury – This
legislation establishes a “temporary federal program” (is there such
a thing?) of shared public and private compensation for insured
commercial property and casualty losses resulting from an act of
terrorism. Taxpayers as
underwriters. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31256.htm DECEMBER
13, 2002
: International
Trade Administration (ITA) – Administrative
reviews are performed to determine if foreign manufacturers are selling
their products at “below market value” to American consumers.
If the importers are “convicted” of this heinous crime, the
ITA assesses “antidumping” duties or import quotas to protect Every
administrative review performed by the ITA is initiated by one or more Canned
Pineapple Fruit from (Petitioners:
Maui Pineapple Company, International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31479.htm (Petitioners:
The Fresh Garlic Producers Association) – http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31478.htm Granular
Polytetrafluorethylene Resin from (Petitioners:
DuPont, http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31480.htm Stainless
Steel Sheet and Strip In Coils from (Petitioners:
Allegheny
Ludlum, AK Steel Corporation (formerly Armco, Inc.), J&L Specialty
Steel, Inc., North American Stainless, Butler-Armco Independent Union,
Zanesville Armco Independent Union, and the United
Steelworkers of http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31481.htm Presidential
Documents – The
President has created this “blue ribbon panel” to “ensure
the efficient operation of the United States Postal Service while
minimizing the financial exposure of the American taxpayers.”
Is
this the same Postal Service that is $11 billion in debt to the
government? How can the Post
Office lose money when they have a legal monopoly on first-class mail
service? Privatization and
competition, not a new federal board, would eliminate further taxpayer
exposure while providing better service at lower cost. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-31624.htm To
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