[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 198 (Friday, October 13, 2006)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60649-60650]
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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 198 / Friday, October 13, 2006 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 8067 of October 11, 2006
To Modify Rules of Origin Under the North
American Free Trade Agreement
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993,
implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement
(the ``NAFTA'') with respect to the United States and,
pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement
Implementation Act (Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA
Implementation Act''), incorporated in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (the ``HTS'') the
tariff modifications and rules of origin necessary or
appropriate to carry out the NAFTA.
2. Section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19
U.S.C. 3332) provides rules for determining whether
goods imported into the United States originate in the
territory of a NAFTA party and thus are eligible for
the tariff and other treatment contemplated under the
NAFTA. Section 202(q) of the NAFTA Implementation Act
(19 U.S.C. 3332(q)) authorizes the President to
proclaim, as a part of the HTS, the rules of origin set
out in the NAFTA and to proclaim modifications to such
previously proclaimed rules of origin, subject to the
consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a)
of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3313(a)).
3. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed to
modifications to certain NAFTA rules of origin.
Modifications to the NAFTA rules of origin reflected in
general note 12 to the HTS are therefore necessary.
4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the
President to embody in the 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.
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, including section 604 of the 1974 Act
and section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, do
hereby proclaim:
(1) In order to reflect in the HTS modifications to the
rules of origin under the NAFTA, general note 12 to the
HTS is modified as provided in the Annex to this
proclamation.
(2) The modifications made by this proclamation shall
be effective with respect to goods of Canada or of
Mexico, under the terms of general note 12 to the HTS,
that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after July 1, 2006.
(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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eleventh day of October, 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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