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Proclamation 7826 of October 4, 2004

To Implement the 2004 United States-Israel Agreement on 

Trade in Agricultural Products 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation

1. On April 22, 1985, the United States entered into the Agreement on 

the Establishment of a Free Trade Area between the Government of the 

United States of America and the Government of Israel (the ‘‘FTA’’), which 

the Congress approved in the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985 (the ‘‘FTA Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2112 Note). 

2. In order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to agricultural trade with Israel, on July 

27, 2004, the Government of the United States entered into an agreement 

with the Government of Israel concerning certain aspects of trade in agricultural products during the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 

2008 (the ‘‘2004 Agreement’’). The 2004 Agreement reflects an effort by 

the United States and Israel to address, through 2008, their continuing 

differences over the meaning of certain provisions in the FTA governing 

access for United States agricultural products to Israel’s market. 

3. Section 4(b) of the FTA Act provides that, whenever the President determines that it is necessary to maintain the general level of reciprocal and 

mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by 

the FTA, the President may proclaim such withdrawal, suspension, modification, or continuance of any duty, or such continuance of existing dutyfree or excise treatment, or such additional duties as the President determines 

to be required or appropriate to carry out the FTA. 

4. Pursuant to section 4(b) of the FTA Act, I have determined that it is 

necessary, in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually 

advantageous concessions with respect to Israel, to provide through the 

close of December 31, 2008, access into the United States customs territory 

for specified quantities of certain agricultural products of Israel free of 

duty or certain fees or other import charges. 

5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2483) (the ‘‘Trade 

Act’’) 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 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 4 of the FTA Act 

and section 604 of the Trade Act, do hereby proclaim: 

(1) In order to implement aspects of the 2004 Agreement with the Government of Israel, concerning certain aspects of trade in agricultural products, 

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 taken in this proclamation are superseded 

to the extent of such inconsistency. 

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(3) The modifications to the HTS made by the Annex to this proclamation 

shall be effective with respect to goods that are the product of Israel and 

are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 

January 1, 2004, and the tariff treatment set forth therein shall be effective 

as provided in such Annex through December 31, 2008. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day 

of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the IndependBilling code 3195–01–P

ence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-ninth.

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