98-21058. To Implement an Accelerated Schedule of Duty Elimination Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 150 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 41951-41955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21058]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 150 / Wednesday, August 5, 1998 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Proclamation 7113 of July 31, 1998

                
To Implement an Accelerated Schedule of Duty 
                Elimination Under the North American Free Trade 
                Agreement

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, 
                Mexico, and the United States of America entered into 
                the North American Free Trade Agreement (``the 
                NAFTA''). The NAFTA was approved by the Congress in 
                section 101(a) of the North American Free Trade 
                Agreement Implementation Act (``the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act'') (19 U.S.C. 3311(a)) and was 
                implemented with respect to the United States by 
                Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993.

                2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 
                U.S.C. 3331(b)) authorizes the President, subject to 
                the consultation and layover requirements of section 
                103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 
                3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules for duty 
                elimination that the United States may agree to with 
                Mexico or Canada. Consistent with Article 302(3) of the 
                NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered representative, 
                entered into an agreement with the Government of Mexico 
                and the Government of Canada, dated July 27, 1998, 
                providing for an accelerated schedule of duty 
                elimination for specific goods of Mexico. The 
                consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a) 
                of the NAFTA Implementation Act with respect to such 
                schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied.

                3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act, I have determined that the 
                modifications hereinafter proclaimed of duties on goods 
                originating in the territory of a NAFTA party are 
                necessary or appropriate to (i) maintain the general 
                level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous 
                concessions with respect to Canada and Mexico provided 
                for by the NAFTA and (ii) to carry out the agreement 
                with Canada and Mexico providing an accelerated 
                schedule of duty elimination for specific goods.

                4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 
                U.S.C. 2483) (``the Trade Act''), authorizes the 
                President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
                of the United States (``the HTS'') the substance of the 
                relevant provisions of 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 section 
                201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and section 604 
                of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide for an accelerated schedule 
                of duty elimination for specific goods, the tariff 
                treatment set forth in the HTS for certain NAFTA 
                originating goods 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 
                taken in this proclamation are superseded to the extent 
                of such inconsistency.

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                    (3) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to 
                this proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after August 1, 1998.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-third.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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[FR Doc. 98-21058
Filed 8-4-98; 8:45 am]
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