[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 2004)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60279-60282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22759]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 194 / Thursday, October 7, 2004 / 
Presidential Documents

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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 duty-free 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 Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and twenty-ninth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

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