[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 56 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
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The President





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 Proclamation 6778--To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences


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                Proclamation 6788 of March 17, 1995

                
To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Trade Act of 
                1974, as amended (``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2461 and 
                2462), and having due regard for the eligibility 
                criteria set forth therein, I have determined that it 
                is appropriate to designate the West Bank and Gaza 
                Strip as a beneficiary of the Generalized System of 
                Preferences (``GSP'').

                2. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) 
                authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized 
                Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTS'') the 
                substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other 
                acts affecting import treatment, and actions 
                thereunder.

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

                (1) General note 4(a) to the HTS, listing those 
                nonindependent territories whose products are eligible 
                for benefits of the GSP, is modified by inserting 
                ``West Bank and Gaza Strip'' in alphabetical order in 
                the enumeration of nonindependent territories.

                (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of 
                this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent 
                of such inconsistency.

                (3) The extension of the Generalized System of 
                Preferences program to the West Bank and Gaza Strip 
                pursuant to this proclamation applies only to goods 
                produced in the areas for which arrangements are being 
                established for Palestinian Interim Self-Government, as 
                set forth in Articles I, III, and IV of the Declaration 
                of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements.

                (4) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph (1) 
                of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                articles that are: (i) imported on or after January 1, 
                1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of 
                publication of this proclamation in the Federal 
                Register.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)<Clinton1>><Clinton2>

[FR Doc. 95-7398
Filed 3-21-95; 4:40 pm]
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