§705.6. Confidential information. — Inbound Citations

(a) A request or application for an investigation shall be in writing. The original, 1 copy and an electronic version of the report in the form of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file shall be filed with the Director, Office of Technology Evaluation, Room H-1093, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, with the PDF version being submitted to [email protected]. An application for an investigation from an interested party that includes information submitted in confidence in accordance with the procedures of § 705.6 must also include a public version in written and electronic form containing all non-confidential information and public summaries of business confidential information as provided below. For persons seeking to submit business confidential information (trade secrets, commercial or financial information, or any other information considered sensitive or privileged), the public version of the application must contain a summary of the business confidential information in sufficient detail to permit a reasonable understanding of the substance of the information. Generally, numerical data will be considered adequately summarized if grouped or presented in terms of indices or figures within 10 percent of the actual figure. If an individual portion of the numerical data is voluminous (e.g., 5 pages of numerical data), at least one percent of the numerical data, representative of that portion, must be summarized. If the submitter claims that summarization is not possible, the claim must be accompanied by a full explanation of the reason(s). In order to submit business confidential information that is not for public release or classified national security information as a separate submission to the U.S. Department of Commerce, applicants must follow the procedures specified in § 705.6.

(b) All requests and applications filed and all material submitted by interested parties, except information on material that is classified or determined to be confidential as provided in § 705.6 of this part, will be available for public inspection and copying in the Bureau of Industry and SecurityFreedom of Information Records Inspection Facility, Room H-4525, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, in accordance with regulations published in part 4 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.