[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 126 (Friday, July 1, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 34329-34340]
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[FR Doc No: 94-16278]
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[Federal Register: July 1, 1994]
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Part XIII
The President
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Proclamation 6704--
To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized
System of Preferences and for Other Purposes
Memorandum of June 30--Actions Concerning the Generalized System of
Preferences
Presidential Documents
Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 126
Friday, July 1, 1994
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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6704 of June 30, 1994
To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the
Generalized System of Preferences and for Other
Purposes
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Pursuant to title V of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended (``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.), the
President may designate specified articles provided for
in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(``HTS'') as eligible for preferential tariff treatment
under the Generalized System of Preferences (``GSP'')
when imported from designated beneficiary developing
countries. Pursuant to section 504(a)(1) of the 1974
Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1)), the President may withdraw,
suspend, or limit the application of duty-free
treatment accorded under section 501 of the 1974 Act
(19 U.S.C. 2461) with respect to any article or with
respect to any country, after considering the factors
set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act
(19 U.S.C. 2462(c)). Pursuant to section 504(c) of the
1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)), beneficiary developing
countries, except those designated as least-developed
beneficiary developing countries pursuant to section
504(c)(6) of the 1974 Act, are subject to limitations
on the preferential treatment afforded under the GSP.
Pursuant to section 504(c)(5) of the 1974 Act, a
country that is no longer treated as a beneficiary
developing country with respect to an eligible article
may be redesignated as a beneficiary developing country
with respect to such article if imports of such article
from such country did not exceed the limitations in
section 504(c)(1) (after application of paragraph
(c)(2)) during the preceding calendar year. Further,
pursuant to section 504(d)(2) of the 1974 Act (19
U.S.C. 2464(d)(2), the President may disregard the
limitations provided in section 504(c)(1)(B) with
respect to any eligible article if the appraised value
of the total imports of such article into the United
States during the preceding calendar year is not in
excess of an amount that bears the same ratio to
$5,000,000 as the gross national product of the United
States for that calendar year (as determined by the
Department of Commerce) bears to the gross national
product of the United States for calendar year 1979.
2. Pursuant to sections 501, 503(a), and 504(a) of the
1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461, 2463(a), and 2464(a)), in
order to subdivide and amend the nomenclature of
existing provisions of the HTS to modify tariff
treatment under the GSP, I have determined, after
taking into account information and advice received
under section 503(a), that the HTS should be modified
to adjust the original designation of eligible
articles. In addition, pursuant to title V of the 1974
Act, I have determined that it is appropriate to
designate specified articles provided for in the HTS as
eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the
GSP when imported from designated beneficiary
developing countries, and that such treatment for other
articles should be terminated. I have also determined,
pursuant to section 504(a)(1) of the 1974 Act, having
considered the factors set forth in sections 501 and
502(c) of the 1974 Act, and pursuant to sections
504(c)(1) and (c)(2) of the 1974 Act, that certain
beneficiary countries should not receive preferential
tariff treatment under the GSP with respect to certain
eligible articles. Further, I have determined, pursuant
to section 504(c)(5) of the 1974 Act, that certain
countries should be redesignated as beneficiary
developing countries with respect to certain eligible
articles. These countries have been previously excluded
from benefits of the GSP with respect to such eligible
articles pursuant to section 504(c)(1) of the 1974 Act.
Last, I have determined that section 504(c)(1)(B) of
the 1974 Act should not apply with respect to certain
eligible articles pursuant to section 504(d)(2) of the
1974 Act.
3. Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993, implemented
the North American Free Trade Agreement. Certain
conforming changes and technical corrections to the HTS
were omitted from this proclamation. I have decided
that it is appropriate to modify the HTS to make such
changes and corrections.
4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act, as amended (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, 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 title V and
section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
(1) In order to designate certain articles as
eligible articles for purposes of the GSP when imported
from designated beneficiary developing countries, the
HTS is modified as provided in Annex I to this
proclamation.
(2)(a) In order to designate certain articles as
eligible articles for purposes of the GSP when imported
from any designated beneficiary developing country, the
Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for the HTS
subheadings enumerated in Annex II(a) to this
proclamation is modified by inserting in the
parentheses the symbol ``A'' as provided in such Annex.
(b) In order to designate certain articles as
eligible articles for purposes of the GSP when imported
from any designated beneficiary developing country
excluding India, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn
for the HTS subheading enumerated in Annex II(b) to
this proclamation is modified by inserting in the
parentheses the symbol ``A*'' as provided in such
Annex.
(c) In order to terminate preferential tariff
treatment under the GSP for certain articles imported
from all designated beneficiary developing countries,
the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for the HTS
subheading in Annex II(c) to this proclamation is
modified by deleting the symbol ``A*'' as set forth in
such Annex.
(d) In order to restore preferential tariff
treatment under the GSP to a country which has been
excluded from the benefits of the GSP for an eligible
article, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each
of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex II(d) to
this proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting symbol
``A*'' in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting in such
subcolumn the symbol ``A'' in lieu thereof.
(e) In order to provide that one or more
countries should no longer be treated as a beneficiary
developing country with respect to an eligible article
for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special
subcolumn for each of the HTS provisions enumerated in
Annex II(e) to this proclamation is modified: (i) by
deleting the symbol ``A'' in parentheses, and (ii) by
inserting in such subcolumn the symbol ``A*'' in lieu
thereof.
(3) In order to provide that one of more countries
that have not been treated as beneficiary developing
countries with respect to one or more eligible articles
should be redesignated as beneficiary developing
countries with respect to such article for purposes of
the GSP, and to provide that one or more countries
should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing
countries with respect to an eligible article for
purposes of the GSP, general note 4 to the HTS is
modified as provided in Annex III to this proclamation.
(4) In order to provide for the continuation of
previously proclaimed staged reductions on certain
Canadian goods, falling under HTS provisions modified
in Annex I to this proclamation, effective with respect
to goods of Canada under the terms of general note 12
to the HTS, that are entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates
specified in Annex IV to this proclamation, the rate of
duty in the HTS set forth in the Rates of Duty 1-
Special subcolumn followed by the symbol ``CA'' in
parentheses for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated
in Annex IV to this proclamation is modified as
provided in such Annex.
(5) In order to provide for the continuation of
previously proclaimed staged reductions on certain
Mexican goods, falling under HTS provisions modified in
Annex I to this proclamation, effective with respect to
goods of Mexico under the terms of general note 12 to
the HTS, that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse
for consumption, on or after the dates specified in
Annex V to this proclamation, the rate of duty in the
HTS set forth in the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn
followed by the symbol ``MX'' in parentheses for each
of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex V to this
proclamation is modified as provided in such Annex.
(6) In order to provide for certain modifications
to the GSP, the HTS is modified as set forth in Annex
VII to this proclamation.
(7) In order to correct certain technical errors
and to make certain conforming changes in HTS
provisions, the HTS is modified as provided in Annex VI
to this proclamation.
(8) Any provisions of previous proclamations and
Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of
this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent
of such inconsistency.
(9)(a) The modifications made by Annexes I, II, and
III to 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 July 1, 1994.
(b) The modifications made by Annexes IV, V, VI,
and VII to this proclamation shall be effective on or
after the dates set forth in such Annexes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of June, 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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