Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 72, No. 190 

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 8180 of September 28, 2007 

To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of Mexico 

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, Mexico, and the 

United States of America entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section 101(a) 

of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Public 

Law 103–182) (the ‘‘NAFTA Implementation Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 3311(a)) and 

was implemented with respect to the United States by Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993. 

2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3331(b)) 

authorizes the President, subject to the consultation and layover requirements 

of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3313(a)), 

to proclaim accelerated schedules of duty elimination that the United States 

may agree to with Mexico or Canada. Consistent with Article 302(3) of 

the NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered representative, have entered 

into an agreement with the Government of Mexico providing for an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods of Mexico. The consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act with respect to such schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied. 

3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act, I have 

determined that the modifications herein proclaimed of duties on goods 

originating in the territory of Mexico are necessary or appropriate to maintain 

the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with 

respect to Mexico provided for by the NAFTA, and to carry out the agreement 

with Mexico providing an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods. 

4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’) 

(19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import treatment, and actions 

taken thereunder. 

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 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and section 604 of 

the 1974 Act, do proclaim that: 

(1) In order to provide an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for 

specific goods of Mexico under the terms of general note 12 to the HTS, 

the tariff treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided in the 

Annex to this proclamation. 

(2) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to this proclamation 

shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 

for consumption, on or after October 1, 2007. 


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(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-eighth 

day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of 

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

thirty-second. 

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