`[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 4, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25693]


 
                         Presidential Documents 
 
 

  Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 193 / Wednesday, October 4, 2000 / 
Presidential Documents  

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                Proclamation 7351 of October 2, 2000

                
To Implement the United States-Caribbean Basin 
                Trade

                 Partnership Act
                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 211 of the United States-Caribbean Basin 
                Trade Partnership Act (Title II of Public Law 106-200) 
                (CBTPA), which amends section 213(b) of the Caribbean 
                Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) (19 U.S.C. 
                2703(b)), provides that certain preferential tariff 
                treatment may be provided to eligible articles that are 
                the product of any country that the President 
                designates as a ``CBTPA beneficiary country'' pursuant 
                to section 213(b)(5)(B) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 
                2703(b)(5)(B)), provided that the President determines 
                that the country has satisfied the requirements of 
                section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 
                2703(b)(4)(A)(ii)) relating to the implementation of 
                procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter 
                5 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

                2. Section 211 of the CBTPA, which amends section 
                213(b) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)), provides that 
                eligible textile and apparel articles of a designated 
                CBTPA beneficiary country shall enter the United States 
                free of duty and free of quantitative limitations, 
                provided that the President determines that the country 
                has satisfied the requirements of section 
                213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA relating to the 
                implementation of procedures and requirements similar 
                to those in chapter 5 of the NAFTA.

                3. Section 212 of the CBTPA, which amends section 
                213(a) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(a)), provides duty-
                free treatment for certain liqueurs and spirituous 
                beverages produced in Canada from rum that originates 
                in a designated beneficiary country or the Virgin 
                Islands of the United States.

                4. In order to implement the tariff treatment provided 
                under the CBTPA, it is necessary to modify the 
                Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), 
                thereby incorporating the substance of the relevant 
                provisions of the CBTPA.

                5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``1974 
                Act'') (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.

                6. I have determined that it is appropriate to 
                authorize the United States Trade Representative (USTR) 
                to perform the functions specified in section 
                213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA and certain functions 
                under section 604 of the 1974 Act.

                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 section 301 of title 3, United 
                States Code, sections 211 and 212 of the CBTPA, section 
                213 of the CBERA, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide for the preferential 
                treatment provided for in section 213 of the CBERA (19 
                U.S.C. 2703), as amended by the CBTPA, the HTS is 
                modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation.

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                    (2) The following countries are designated as CBTPA 
                beneficiary countries pursuant to section 213(b)(5)(B) 
                of the CBERA:
                    Antigua and Barbuda
                    Aruba
                    Bahamas
                    Barbados
                    Belize
                    Costa Rica
                    Dominica
                    Dominican Republic
                    El Salvador
                    Grenada
                    Guatemala
                    Guyana
                    Haiti
                    Honduras
                    Jamaica
                    Montserrat
                    Netherlands Antilles
                    Nicaragua
                    Panama
                    St. Kitts and Nevis
                    Saint Lucia
                    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
                    Trinidad and Tobago
                    British Virgin Islands
                    (3) The USTR is authorized to determine whether 
                each designated beneficiary country has satisfied the 
                requirements of section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA 
                relating to the implementation of procedures and 
                requirements similar in all material respects to the 
                relevant procedures and requirements under chapter 5 of 
                the NAFTA. To implement such determination or 
                determinations, the USTR is authorized to exercise the 
                authority provided to the President under section 604 
                of the 1974 Act to embody modifications and technical 
                or conforming changes in the HTS. The determination or 
                determinations of the USTR under this paragraph shall 
                be set forth in a notice or notices that the USTR shall 
                cause to be published in the Federal Register. Such 
                notice or notices shall modify general note 17 of the 
                HTS by listing the countries that satisfy the 
                requirements of section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA.
                    (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) This proclamation is effective on the date of 
                signature of this proclamation, except that the 
                modifications to the HTS made by the Annex to this 
                proclamation, as further modified by any notice to be 
                published in the Federal Register as described in 
                paragraph 3 of this proclamation, shall be effective on 
                the date announced by the USTR in such notice.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                second day of October, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand, and of the Independence of the United States 
                of America the two hundred and twenty-fifth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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