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Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 8095 of December 29, 2006 

To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals and Chemical Intermediates 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

1. During the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (the ‘‘Uruguay Round’’), a group of major trading countries agreed to reciprocal elimination of tariffs on certain pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates, 

and that participants in this agreement would revise periodically the list 

of products subject to duty-free treatment. On December 13, 1996, at the 

Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United 

States and 16 other major trading countries agreed to eliminate tariffs on 

additional pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates. On April 1, 1997, 

the United States implemented this agreement in Proclamation 6982. The 

second revision to the list of products was negotiated under the auspices 

of the WTO in 1998. The United States implemented this revision on July 

1, 1999, in Proclamation 7207. In 2006, the United States and 30 other 

WTO members concluded negotiations, under the auspices of the WTO, 

on a further revision to the list of pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates 

to receive duty-free treatment. 

2. Section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA)(19 U.S.C. 

3521(b)) authorizes the President under specified circumstances to proclaim 

the modification of any duty or staged rate reduction of any duty set forth 

in Schedule XX-United States of America, annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol 

to the GATT 1994 (Schedule XX) for products that were the subject of 

reciprocal duty elimination negotiations during the Uruguay Round, if the 

United States agrees to such action in a multilateral negotiation under the 

auspices of the WTO. Section 111(b) also authorizes the President to proclaim 

such modifications as are necessary to correct technical errors in, or make 

other rectifications to, Schedule XX. 

3. On October 3, 2006, consistent with section 115 of the URAA, the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR) submitted a report to the Committee 

on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee 

on Finance of the Senate (the ‘‘Committees’’) that set forth the proposed 

further revision to the list of products subject to tariff eliminations. 

4. Section 604 of the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), 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 the 

removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or 

other import restriction. 

5. Pursuant to section 111(b) of the URAA, I have determined that Schedule 

XX should be modified to reflect the implementation by the United States 

of the multilateral agreement on certain pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates negotiated under the auspices of the WTO. In addition, I have 

determined that the pharmaceuticals appendix to the HTS should be modified 

to reflect the duty eliminations provided for in that agreement and to make 

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particular products in order to ensure that they are accorded the intended 

duty treatment. 

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 of America, including but not limited 

to section 111(b) of the URAA and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim 

that: 

(1) In order to implement the multilateral agreement negotiated under the 

auspices of the WTO to eliminate tariffs on certain pharmaceutical products 

and chemical intermediates, and to make technical corrections in the tariff 

treatment accorded to such products, the HTS is modified as set forth 

in the Annex to this proclamation. 

(2) Such modifications to the HTS shall be effective with respect to articles 

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

date set forth in the Annex for the respective actions taken. 

(3) 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. 

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

day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the 

Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtyfirst. 

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