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Federal Register

Vol. 60, No. 101

Thursday, May 25, 1995

Title 3—

The President

Proclamation 6804 of May 22, 1995

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 section 504(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (‘‘Trade

Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)), beneficiary developing countries, except those

designated as least-developed beneficiary developing countries pursuant to

section 504(c)(6) of the Trade Act, are subject to limitations on the preferential

treatment afforded under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). I

have determined, pursuant to sections 504(a)(1), (c)(1), and (c)(2) of the

Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1), (c)(1), and (c)(2)), that certain beneficiary

developing countries should no longer receive preferential tariff treatment

under the GSP with respect to certain eligible articles.

2. To reflect clearly the names of certain beneficiary developing countries

under the GSP, I have decided that it is necessary and appropriate to

modify general note 4 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United

States (HTS).

3. In Proclamation No. 6767 of February 3, 1995, conforming changes with

respect to certain articles under the GSP were omitted. I have decided

that it is necessary and appropriate to modify the HTS to make such conforming changes.

4. Proclamation No. 6763 of December 23, 1994, implemented the Uruguay

Round Agreements, including Schedule XX, with respect to the United

States and incorporated in the HTS tariff modifications necessary and appropriate to carry out the Uruguay Round Agreements. Certain technical errors,

including inadvertent omissions, were made in that proclamation. I have

determined that it is necessary to reflect accurately the intended tariff treatment provided for in the Uruguay Round Agreements to modify certain

provisions of the HTS as set forth in Annex III to this proclamation.

5. Section 604 of the Trade 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.

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 but not limited to sections

504 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:

(1)(a) To make certain conforming changes, the Rates of Duty 1-Special

subcolumn for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex I(A)

to this proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting the symbol ‘‘A*’’ in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting the symbol ‘‘A’’ in lieu thereof.

(b) To provide that one or more countries should no longer be treated

as a beneficiary developing country with respect to an eligible article for

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

the HTS provisions enumerated in Annex I(B) to this proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting the symbol ‘‘A’’ in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting

the symbol ‘‘A*’’ in lieu thereof.
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(2) To reflect clearly the names of certain beneficiaries and to provide

that one or more countries are no longer to be treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to an eligible article for purposes of the GSP,

general note 4 to the HTS is modified as provided in Annex II to this

proclamation.

(3) The HTS is modified as provided in Annex III to this proclamation.

(4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to

the extent of such inconsistency.

(5)(a) The modifications made by Annexes I and II to this proclamation

shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after

January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 1995.

(b) The modifications made by Annex III to this proclamation shall be

effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse

for consumption, on or after the dates specified in such annex.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand thistwenty-second

day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five,

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

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and nineteenth.

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[FR Doc. 95–13019

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