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12 2 STA T . 22 98PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 2 46—J U NE 18 , 2008 (IV)informat ion c ontain ed in su c h documentation that re l ates to the p urchase of q ualif y in gw o v en fa b ric or qualifying k nit fabric involving such per - son or entity .‘ ‘(VI) T he program under this subparagraph shall be established so as to allow , tothee x tent feasible, the submission, storage, retrieval, and disclosure of information in electronic format, including information with respect to the earned import allowance certificates required under subparagraph ( A )(i). ‘‘(VII) The S ecretary of C ommerce may rec- oncile discrepancies in information provided under subclause (III) or (IV) and verify the accuracy of such information. ‘‘(VIII) The Secretary of Commerce shall estab- lish procedures to carry out the program under this subparagraph and may establish additional requirements to carry out this subparagraph. Such additional requirements may include — ‘‘(aa) submissions by textile mills or other entities in the U nited States documenting exports of yarns wholly formed in the United States to countries described in paragraph ( 1 )( B )(iii) for the manufacture of qualifying knit fabric

and ‘‘(bb) procedures imposed on producers or entities controlling production to allow the Secretary of Commerce to obtain and verify information relating to the production of quali- fying knit fabric. ‘‘(iii) QUALIFY I NGWOVE NFA BR I CD EFINED.— F or purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘qualifying woven fabric ’ means fabric wholly formed in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States, except that— ‘‘(I) fabric otherwise eligible as qualifying woven fabric shall not be ineligible as qualifying woven fabric because the fabric contains nylon fila- ment yarn to which section 2 1 3 (b)(2)(A)(vii)(IV) applies; ‘‘(II) fabric that would otherwise be ineligible as qualifying woven fabric because the fabric con- tains yarns not wholly formed in the United States shall not be ineligible as qualifying woven fabric if the total weight of all such yarns is not more than 1 0 percent of the total weight of the fabric; and ‘‘(III) fabric otherwise eligible as qualifying woven fabric shall not be ineligible as qualifying fabric because the fabric contains yarns covered by clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph ( 5 )(A). ‘‘(iv) QUALIFYING K NI T FABRIC DEFINED.—For pur- poses of this subparagraph, the term ‘qualifying knit fabric’ means fabric or knit-to-shape components wholly formed or knit-to-shape in any country or any combination of countries described in paragraph Procedu re s.