[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8115-8118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-3864]
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[Federal Register: February 17, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Proclamation 6650 of February 16, 1994
To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences
and for Other Purposes
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended (``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2461 and
2462), and having due regard for the eligibility
criteria set forth therein, I have determined that it
is appropriate to designate Kazakhstan and Romania as
beneficiary developing countries for purposes of the
Generalized System of Preferences (``GSP'').
2. Proclamation No. 6579 of July 4, 1993, implemented
an accelerated schedule of duty elimination and
modified the rules of origin under the United States-
Canada Free-Trade Agreement. Proclamation No. 6641 of
December 15, 1993, implemented the North American Free
Trade Agreement. Certain conforming changes and
technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule
of the United States (``HTS'') were omitted from these
proclamations. I have decided that it is appropriate to
modify the HTS to make such changes and corrections.
3. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483)
authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the
substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other
acts affecting import treatment, and actions
thereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 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
sections 501 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim
that:
(1) General note 4(a) to the HTS, listing those
countries whose products are eligible for benefits of
the GSP, is modified by inserting ``Kazakhstan'' and
``Romania'' in alphabetical order in the enumeration of
independent countries.
(2) In order to make conforming changes and
technical corrections in certain HTS provisions,
pursuant to actions taken in Proclamation No. 6579 and
Proclamation No. 6641, the HTS and Proclamation No.
6641 are modified as provided in the annex to this
proclamation, effective as of the dates specified in
such annex.
(3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and
Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of
this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent
of such inconsistency.
(4) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph
(1) of this proclamation shall be effective with
respect to articles that are: (i) imported on or after
January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after 15 days after
the date of publication of this proclamation in the
Federal Register.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and eighteenth.
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