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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 67 / Monday, April 8, 2013 / Notices 20893 Notification to Importers 14. Ningbo Create-Bio Engineering Co. Ltd. U.S. Department of Commerce Trade 15. Nutracare International This notice serves as a final reminder Mission will enhance the participants’ 16. Paras Intermediates Pvt. Ltd. ability to engage in such meetings, to importers of their responsibility 17. Qingdao Samin Chemical Co., Ltd. under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 18. Ravi Industries which can be difficult to obtain when certificate regarding the reimbursement 19. Salvi Chemical Industries not accompanied by government of antidumping duties prior to 20. Shanghai Waseta International Trading officials. In addition to U.S. law firms, liquidation of the relevant entries 21. Showa Denko K.K. bar associations and other organizations during this period of review. Failure to 22. Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical that represent U.S. legal service Company providers are encouraged to apply. comply with this requirement could 23. Wisent Pharma Inc. result in the Secretary’s presumption 24. XPAC Technologies Inc. Commercial Setting that reimbursement of antidumping 25. Yuki Gosei Kogyo Co., Ltd. As China seeks to transition from a duties occurred and the subsequent [FR Doc. 2013–08108 Filed 4–5–13; 8:45 am] manufacturing, export-based economy assessment of double antidumping BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P to a center of international business and duties. finance, its need for sophisticated Administrative Protective Order multinational legal and financial DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE This notice also serves as a reminder services is growing. Illustrating this trend, more than 200 foreign law firms to parties subject to administrative International Trade Administration protective orders (APO) of their currently have a presence in China. responsibility concerning the return or Legal Services Trade Mission to China, In China, foreign lawyers are destruction of proprietary information September 16–18, 2013 permitted to: provide clients with disclosed under APO in accordance counsel with respect to the laws of the AGENCY: International Trade with 19 CFR 351.305, which continues countries where they are qualified to Administration, Department of to govern business proprietary practice and on international Commerce. information in this segment of the conventions and international practices; proceeding. Timely written notification ACTION: Notice. handle legal affairs in the country where of the return/destruction of APO the lawyers are qualified to practice law materials or conversion to judicial Mission Description when entrusted to do so by their clients protective order is hereby requested. The General Counsel of the United or Chinese law firms; entrust, on behalf Failure to comply with the regulations States Department of Commerce will of foreign clients, Chinese law firms to and terms of an APO is a violation lead a Legal Services Trade Mission to provide counsel on Chinese legal affairs; which is subject to sanction. China, September 16–18, 2013. The enter into contracts to maintain We are issuing and publishing this purpose of the mission is to introduce entrustment relationships with Chinese administrative review and notice in U.S. law firms 1 without a presence in law firms; and provide their clients with accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and China to the Chinese market, to market information about the impact of the 777(i) of the Act. U.S. legal services to Chinese companies Chinese legal environment. and individuals, to raise awareness Within this rubric, opportunities exist Dated: April 1, 2013. for U.S. law firms providing legal Paul Piquado, about the U.S. legal and business climate to Chinese companies interested services in China in a number of Assistant Secretary for Import practice areas, including capital Administration. in doing business in the U.S. market, and to further an ongoing dialogue with markets, mergers and acquisitions, Appendix I Chinese authorities on opening the international trade, inbound and outbound investment, shipping, Comment 1: Baoding Mantong’s Untimely Chinese legal services market to 2 expanded practice by U.S. firms. intellectual property rights, arbitration, Withdrawal of Review Request and life sciences, real estate, information Rescission of the Administrative Review The trade mission will include stops with Respect to Baoding Mantong in Beijing and Shanghai. In both cities, technology and e-commerce, labor and Comment 2: The Department’s Selection of participants will receive market employment, private equity, and the Adverse Facts Available Margin for briefings to obtain key information from venture capital. Baoding Mantong U.S. officials on the legal services The trade mission will also present opportunities for participants to engage Appendix II environment in China. They will then participate in specially-tailored forums with Chinese individuals, private Companies Without Previous Separate Rates on U.S. legal services for audiences of companies, and state-owned enterprises, Status for Which the Review Request Was Chinese persons seeking to do business particularly those seeking to do business Withdrawn in the United States and others seeking in the United States. Depending on the 1. A&A Pharmachem Inc. legal services in China and the United type of business, Chinese companies 2. Advance Exports States. In addition, the trade mission doing business in the United States 3. AICO Laboratories India Ltd. will include opportunities for could require legal services on United 4. Avid Organics Pvt. Ltd. States laws for issues relating to 5. Chiyuen International Trading Ltd. participants to have policy discussions with Chinese government officials in taxation, employment, corporate 6. E-Heng Import and Export Co., Ltd. finance, real estate, litigation, sale of 7. General Ingredient Inc. order to learn more about the regulatory 8. Hebei Donghua Chemical General landscape and present the benefits that goods, intellectual property rights, Corporation U.S. law firms can provide to Chinese 2 9. Hebei Donghua Jiheng Fine Chemical Co., and U.S. companies. Joining the official Generally, foreign lawyers may represent clients Ltd. in international or foreign-relation arbitral 10. Jiangsu Dongchang Chemical proceedings before the China International 1 For purposes of this trade mission, a ‘‘U.S. law Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission 11. Jizhou City Huayang Chemical Co., Ltd. firm’’ is defined as a law firm that is formed under (CIETAC) that do not involve Chinese legal affairs. 12. Kissner Milling Co. Ltd. the laws of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia Recent amendments to the rules that govern 13. Nantong Dongchang Chemical Industrial and with its principal place of business in the CIETAC permit arbitration before CIETAC to be Co. Ltd. United States. held in languages other than Chinese. VerDate Mar<15>2010 20:02 Apr 05, 2013 Jkt 229001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08APN1.SGM 08APN1 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 20894 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 67 / Monday, April 8, 2013 / Notices customs and international trade, export 2012, up 20.5 percent from the previous participants with a Country Team controls, foreign corrupt practices, year. The Shanghai Stock Exchange is Briefing, which will provide investment, and cross-border data flows, the world’s sixth largest in terms of participants with an overview of the and many other legal practice areas. trade value ($3.7 billion) and market political, economic and commercial capitalization ($2.4 billion), and experts environment in Shanghai. The group Beijing expect initial public offerings in greater will then meet key government As the national capital, Beijing is the China (including the Hong Kong, authorities, likely including Shanghai locus of China’s central governmental Shenzhen, and Shanghai Stock municipal officials responsible for authorities and provides an excellent Exchanges, which accounted for 40 regulating legal services, and legal base of operations for U.S. law firms percent of all IPO funds raised industry counterparts possibly to entering the Chinese legal services worldwide in 2011) to increase over the include the AmCham Legal Committee market. The municipal government is coming years. and a Shanghai-based bar association. promoting development in Beijing’s More than 380 multinational Thursday afternoon, the U.S. high-technology and financial services companies have set up regional Department of Commerce will host a sectors. Beijing’s economic growth is headquarters in Shanghai. This city has forum on doing business in the United primarily driven by the services sector, the highest percentage of foreign States specifically tailored to the led by its financial services, tourism, residents in China, with nine out of expressed strengths and goals of the healthcare, and IT sectors. every 1,000 people coming from abroad. trade mission participants, during Beijing is an attractive location for Income levels in Shanghai are among which the participants will have an U.S. law firms seeking clients who need the highest in the country, exceeding opportunity to network with Chinese legal advice on investing in and those in Beijing, and its infrastructure is businesspersons who have expressed an exporting to China. In 2009, Beijing one of the most advanced in China. interested in doing business in the municipal authorities unveiled financial Mission Scenario 3 United States and Chinese law firms incentives, including subsidies
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