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Thursday, December 27, 2007 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 8213 of December 20, 2007 

To Implement an Amendment to the Dominican RepublicCentral America-United States Free Trade Agreement 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

1. On August 5, 2004, the United States entered into the Dominican RepublicCentral America-United States Free Trade Agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’) with 

Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, 

and Nicaragua (the ‘‘Agreement countries’’). The Congress approved the 

Agreement in section 101(a) of the Dominican Republic-Central AmericaUnited States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the ‘‘CAFTA– 

DR Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 4011). 

2. The Parties to the Agreement entered into an amendment to the Agreement 

on July 27, August 6, and August 14, 2007 (the ‘‘Amendment’’). The terms 

of the Amendment are contained in letters of understanding between the 

United States and the Agreement countries described in sections 1634(a)(2) 

and 1634(b)(2) of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 

280, 120 Stat. 780). 

3. Section 1634 of the Pension Protection Act authorizes the President to 

proclaim modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTS) as necessary to carry out the understandings described therein 

subject, in the case of certain provisions of the Amendment, to the consultation and layover requirements in section 104 of the CAFTA–DR Act (19 

U.S.C. 4014). 

4. Section 203(o) of the CAFTA–DR Act (19 U.S.C. 4033) authorizes the 

President to proclaim, as part of the HTS, the provisions set out in Annex 

4.1 of the Agreement. 

5. Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended, established the 

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA), consisting 

of representatives of the Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, 

and Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with 

the representative of the Department of Commerce as Chairman, to supervise 

the implementation of textile trade agreements. Consistent with 3 U.S.C. 

301, when carrying out functions vested in the President by statute and 

assigned by the President to CITA, the officials collectively exercising those 

functions are all to be officers required to be appointed by the President 

with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

6. 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 HTS the substance 

of relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import treatment, 

and of 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 203 of the CAFTA–DR Act, section 1634 of the Pension Protection 

Act, section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and section 604 of the 

1974 Act, do proclaim that: 


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(1) In order to provide generally for the modifications in the rules for 

determining whether goods imported into the customs territory of the United 

States are eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the Agreement, 

to provide preferential tariff treatment for certain other goods under the 

Agreement, and to make technical and conforming changes in the general 

notes to the HTS, the HTS is modified as set forth in: 

(a) Sections A, B, and C of the Annex to this proclamation; and 

(b) Section D of that Annex. 

(2) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph (1)(a) of this proclamation shall enter into effect on the date, as announced by the United States 

Trade Representative in the Federal Register, that the Amendment enters 

into force and shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse for consumption, on or after that date. 

(3) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph (1)(b) of this proclamation shall enter into effect on the date, as announced by the United States 

Trade Representative in the Federal Register, that the Amendment has entered into force and the conditions set forth in paragraph (a), paragraph 

(b), or both, of footnote 1 to Appendix 4.1–B of the Agreement have been 

fulfilled, and shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse for consumption, on or after that date. 

(4) The CITA is authorized to exercise my authority under section 203(o) 

of the CAFTA–DR Act to implement Appendix 4.1–B of the Agreement 

by determining whether and, if so, by what amount, to increase in accordance 

with paragraph 3 or footnote 2 of that Appendix the quantitative limits 

in the provisions of the HTS set out in section D of the Annex to this 

proclamation. 

(5)The United States Trade Representative shall modify U.S. note 21 to 

subchapter XXII of chapter 98 of the HTS in a notice published in the 

Federal Register to reflect determinations pursuant to paragraph (4) of this 

proclamation by the CITA. 

(6) 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 twentieth day 

of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the 

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

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[FR Doc. 07–6246 

Filed 12–26–07; 9:06 am] 

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