X07-10104. To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals and Chemical Intermediates  

  • [Federal Register Volume 72, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 2007)]
    [Presidential Documents]
    [Pages 429-430]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: X07-10104]
    
    
    
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    Part V
    
    
    
    
    
    The President
    
    
    
    
    
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    Proclamation 8095--To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals and 
    Chemical Intermediates
    
    
    
    Proclamation 8096--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade 
    Relations Treatment) to the Products of Vietnam
    
    
    
    Proclamation 8097--To Modify the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
    United States, To Adjust Rules of Origin Under the United States-
    Australia Free Trade Agreement and for Other Purposes
    
    
    
    Proclamation 8098--To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and 
    Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences
    
    
    
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    Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 2 / Thursday, January 4, 2007 / 
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    Title 3--
    The President
    
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                    Proclamation 8095 of December 29, 2006
    
                    
    To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals 
                    and Chemical Intermediates
    
                    By the President of the United States of America
    
                    A Proclamation
    
                    1. During the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade 
                    Negotiations (the ``Uruguay Round''), a group of major 
                    trading countries agreed to reciprocal elimination of 
                    tariffs on certain pharmaceuticals and chemical 
                    intermediates, and that participants in this agreement 
                    would revise periodically the list of products subject 
                    to duty-free treatment. On December 13, 1996, at the 
                    Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization 
                    (WTO), the United States and 16 other major trading 
                    countries agreed to eliminate tariffs on additional 
                    pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates. On April 1, 
                    1997, the United States implemented this agreement in 
                    Proclamation 6982. The second revision to the list of 
                    products was negotiated under the auspices of the WTO 
                    in 1998. The United States implemented this revision on 
                    July 1, 1999, in Proclamation 7207. In 2006, the United 
                    States and 30 other WTO members concluded negotiations, 
                    under the auspices of the WTO, on a further revision to 
                    the list of pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates 
                    to receive duty-free treatment.
    
                    2. Section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act 
                    (URAA)(19 U.S.C. 3521(b)) authorizes the President 
                    under specified circumstances to proclaim the 
                    modification of any duty or staged rate reduction of 
                    any duty set forth in Schedule XX-United States of 
                    America, annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol to the GATT 
                    1994 (Schedule XX) for products that were the subject 
                    of reciprocal duty elimination negotiations during the 
                    Uruguay Round, if the United States agrees to such 
                    action in a multilateral negotiation under the auspices 
                    of the WTO. Section 111(b) also authorizes the 
                    President to proclaim such modifications as are 
                    necessary to correct technical errors in, or make other 
                    rectifications to, Schedule XX.
    
                    3. On October 3, 2006, consistent with section 115 of 
                    the URAA, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) 
                    submitted a report to the Committee on Ways and Means 
                    of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
                    Finance of the Senate (the ``Committees'') that set 
                    forth the proposed further revision to the list of 
                    products subject to tariff eliminations.
    
                    4. Section 604 of the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
                    2483), authorizes the President to embody in the 
                    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) 
                    the substance of the relevant provisions of that Act, 
                    and of other acts affecting import treatment, and 
                    actions thereunder, including the removal, 
                    modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of 
                    duty or other import restriction.
    
                    5. Pursuant to section 111(b) of the URAA, I have 
                    determined that Schedule XX should be modified to 
                    reflect the implementation by the United States of the 
                    multilateral agreement on certain pharmaceuticals and 
                    chemical intermediates negotiated under the auspices of 
                    the WTO. In addition, I have determined that the 
                    pharmaceuticals appendix to the HTS should be modified 
                    to reflect the duty eliminations provided for in that 
                    agreement and to make certain technical corrections in 
                    the manner in which Schedule XX identifies
    
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                    particular products in order to ensure that they are 
                    accorded the intended duty treatment.
    
                    NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the 
                    United States of America, acting under the authority 
                    vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                    United States of America, including but not limited to 
                    section 111(b) of the URAA and section 604 of the 1974 
                    Act, do proclaim that:
    
                    (1) In order to implement the multilateral agreement 
                    negotiated under the auspices of the WTO to eliminate 
                    tariffs on certain pharmaceutical products and chemical 
                    intermediates, and to make technical corrections in the 
                    tariff treatment accorded to such products, the HTS is 
                    modified as set forth in the Annex to this 
                    proclamation.
    
                    (2) Such modifications to the HTS shall be effective 
                    with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from 
                    warehouse for consumption, on or after the date set 
                    forth in the Annex for the respective actions taken.
    
                    (3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                    Executive Orders that are inconsistent with the actions 
                    taken in this proclamation are superseded to the extent 
                    of such inconsistency.
    
                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                    twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                    two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United 
                    States of America the two hundred and thirty-first. 
                    
                    
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Document Information

Published:
01/04/2007
Department:
Executive Office of the President
Entry Type:
Presidential Document
Document Type:
Proclamation
Document Number:
X07-10104
Pages:
429-430 (2 pages)
EOCitation:
of 2006-12-29
PDF File:
x07-10104.pdf