Presidential Documents

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Federal Register

Vol. 65, No. 128

Monday, July 3, 2000

Title 3—

The President

Proclamation 7325 of June 29, 2000

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 sections 501, 503(a)(1)(A), and 503(c)(1) of title V of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2461,

2463(a)(1)(A), and 2463(c)(1)), the President may designate or withdraw designation of 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.

2. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)),

beneficiary developing countries, except those designated as least-developed

beneficiary developing countries pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(D) of the 1974

Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(D)), are subject to competitive need limitations

on the preferential treatment afforded under the GSP to eligible articles.

3. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(C)),

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 competitive need limitations in section

503(c)(2)(A) (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)) during the preceding calendar year.

4. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(F)),

the President may disregard the competitive need limitation provided in

section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)(i)(II)) 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

does not exceed an amount set forth in section 503(c)(2)(F)(ii) of the 1974

Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(F)(ii)).

5. Pursuant to section 503(d) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(d)), the

President may waive the application of the competitive need limitations

in section 503(c)(2)(A) with respect to any eligible article from any beneficiary

developing country if certain conditions are met.

6. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(E) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(E)),

section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) shall not apply with respect to any eligible article

if a like or directly competitive article was not produced in the United

States on January 1, 1995.

7. Pursuant to sections 501 and 503(a)(1)(A) of the 1974 Act, and after

receiving advice from the International Trade Commission in accordance

with section 503(e), I have determined to designate certain articles, previously

designated under section 503(a)(1)(B), as eligible articles when imported

from any beneficiary developing country.

8. Pursuant to section 503(c)(1) of the 1974 Act, I have determined to

limit the application of duty-free treatment accorded to certain articles from

certain beneficiary developing countries.

9. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act, I have determined

that certain beneficiary countries should no longer receive preferential tariff

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treatment under the GSP with respect to certain eligible articles imported

in quantities that exceed the applicable competitive need limitation.

10. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act, I have determined

that certain countries should be redesignated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to certain eligible articles that previously had been imported

in quantities exceeding the competitive need limitations of section

503(c)(2)(A).

11. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act, I have determined

that the competitive need limitation provided in section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II)

should be waived with respect to certain eligible articles from certain beneficiary developing countries.

12. Pursuant to section 503(d) of the 1974 Act, I have determined that

the competitive need limitations of section 503(c)(2)(A) should be waived

with respect to certain eligible articles from certain beneficiary developing

countries. I have received the advice of the International Trade Commission

on whether any industries in the United States are likely to be adversely

affected by such waivers, and I have determined, based on that advice

and on the considerations described in sections 501 and 502(c), that such

waivers are in the national economic interest of the United States.

13. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(E) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(E)),

I have determined that the limitation provided for in section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II)

shall not apply with respect to HTS subheading 3817.10.50 because no

like or directly competitive article was produced in the United States on

January 1, 1995.

14. 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 of America, including but not limited

to title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:

(1) In order to provide that one or more countries that have not been

treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to one or more

eligible articles should be designated as beneficiary developing countries

with respect to such article or articles for purposes of the GSP, and that

one or more countries should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing

countries with respect to one or more eligible articles for purposes of the

GSP, general note 4(d) to the HTS is modified as provided in section A

of 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 beneficiary developing country, the

Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn for certain HTS subheadings is modified

as provided in section B(1) of Annex I to this proclamation.

(b) In order to provide preferential tariff treatment under the GSP to

a beneficiary developing country that has been excluded from the benefits

of the GSP for certain eligible articles, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn

for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in section B(2) of Annex

I to this proclamation is modified as provided in such section.

(c) In order to provide that one or more countries should not be treated

as a beneficiary developing country with respect to certain eligible articles

for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn for each

of the HTS subheadings enumerated in section B(3) of Annex I to this

proclamation is modified as provided in such section.

(3) A waiver of the application of section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act

shall apply to the eligible articles in the HTS subheadings and to the

beneficiary developing countries set forth in Annex II to this proclamation.

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(4) 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.

(5)(a) The modifications made by Annex I to this proclamation shall

be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse

for consumption, on or after July 1, 2000.

(b) The action taken in Annex II to this proclamation shall be effective

on the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.

(c) The action taken in paragraph 13 of this proclamation shall be effective

on the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth

day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the Independence

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of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.

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Annex I

Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS)

Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 2000.

Section A. General note 4(d) to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States

(HTS) is modified by:

(1). deleting the following subheadings and the country set out opposite such subheadings:

0811.20.40 Chile 7202.50.00 Russia

1701.91.10 Brazil

(2). adding, in numerical sequence, the following provisions and countries set out opposite them:

0713.90.80 India 5007.90.30 India

0714.90.45 Costa Rica 5702.39.10 India

1102.90.30 El Salvador 6302.99.10 India

2001.90.45 India 7113.19.25 India

2008.19.25 Peru 7113.20.25 India

2008.99.45 Dominican Republic 7418.19.10 India

4010.19.50 Brazil 8211.95.50 Pakistan

4104.39.20 India 8450.90.20 Ecuador

4412.92.40 Ecuador 8708.99.67 Brazil

(3). adding, in alphabetical order, the country or countries set out opposite the following subheadings:

0714.20.10 Colombia 2008.50.20 Turkey

1602.50.20 Brazil 2905.42.00 Brazil

1702.30.22 Jamaica 3212.90.00 Colombia

2004.10.40 Peru 4106.20.30 Pakistan

2008.19.30 Turkey 7801.99.30 Colombia

Section B. Each enumerated article’s preferential tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in the HTS is modified as provided in this section.

(1). For subheadings 7202.99.10 and 8104.30.00, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol ‘‘A+’’ and inserting an ‘‘A’’ in lieu thereof.

(2). For the following subheadings, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol ‘‘A*’’ and inserting an ‘‘A’’ in lieu thereof.

0811.20.40

1701.91.10

7202.50.00

(3). For the following provisions, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn is modified

by deleting the symbol ‘‘A’’ and inserting an ‘‘A*’’ in lieu thereof:

0713.90.80 2008.19.25 4412.92.40 7113.19.25 8450.90.20

0714.90.45 2008.99.45 5007.90.30 7113.20.25 8708.99.67

1102.90.30 4010.19.50 5702.39.10 7418.19.10

2001.90.45 4104.39.20 6302.99.10 8211.95.50

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Annex II

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS)

Subheadings and Countries Granted Waivers of the Application of Section

503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act

HTS Subheading Country

7202.50.00 Russia

7202.99.10 Brazil

[FR Doc. 00–17012

Filed 6–30–00; 10:55 am]

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