[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19017-19020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10134]
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Part VI
The President
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Proclamation 6988--To Modify Application of Duty-Free Treatment Under
the Generalized System of Preferences
Proclamation 6989--National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 1997
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6988 of April 11, 1997
To Modify Application of Duty-Free Treatment
Under the Generalized System of Preferences
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Sections 502(d)(1) and 503(c)(1) of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended by Public Law 104-188; 110 Stat. 1755,
1920, 1922 (``the 1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2462(d)(1) and
2463(c)(1)), provide that the President may withdraw,
suspend, or limit the application of the duty-free
treatment accorded under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) with respect to any country and any
article upon consideration of the factors set forth in
sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461
and 2462(c)). Pursuant to sections 502(d)(1) and
503(c)(1) of the 1974 Act and having considered the
factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of such
Act, including, in particular, section 502(c)(5) (19
U.S.C. 2464(c)(5)) on the extent to which a designated
beneficiary developing country is providing adequate
and effective protection of intellectual property
rights, I have determined that it is appropriate to
suspend the duty-free treatment accorded under the GSP
to certain eligible articles that are the product of
Argentina, as provided in the Annex to this
proclamation.
2. Section 604 of the 1974 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.
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, including but not limited to sections
502(d)(1), 503(c)(1), and 604 of the 1974 Act, do
proclaim that:
(1) In order to provide that Argentina should no
longer be treated as a beneficiary developing country
with respect to certain eligible articles for purposes
of the GSP, the HTS is modified as provided in the
Annex to this proclamation.
(2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and
Executive orders that are inconsistent with the actions
and provisions of this proclamation are superseded to
the extent of such inconsistency.
(3) The modifications made by this proclamation
shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i)
imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or
after 30 days after the date of publication of this
proclamation in the Federal Register.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-seven, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-first.
(Presidential Sig.)
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