[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 73 (Monday, June 2, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REPORT CONCERNING THE GENERAL SYSTEM OF PREFERENCE (GSP) FOR CAMBODIA--
   MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT RECEIVED DURING THE ADJOURNMENT--PM-42

  Under the authority of the order of the Senate January 7, 1997, the 
Secretary of the Senate, on May 30, 1997, during the adjournment of the 
Senate, received the following message from the President of the United 
States, together with an accompanying report; which was referred to the 
Committee on Finance.

To the Congress of the United States:
  The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program offers duty-free 
treatment to specified products that are imported from designated 
developing countries. The program is authorized by title V of the Trade 
Act of 1974, as amended.
  Pursuant to title V, I have determined that Cambodia should be 
designated as a least developed beneficiary developing country under 
the GSP program because it has taken steps to improve worker rights and 
the protection of intellectual property. I have also determined, as a 
result of the 1995 Annual Review of petitions for changes that three 
products should be added to the GSP list of eligible products and that 
the competitive need limits on 22 products should be waived. As a 
result of a review of 1996 imports of GSP products, I have determined 
that de minimis limits on 79 products be waived and 11 products, whose 
imports no longer exceed the program's competitive need limits, should 
be redesignated as GSP eligible. Finally as a result of certain 
provisions of the legislation enacted in August 1996 reauthorizing GSP, 
I am granting GSP eligibility to an additional 1,783 articles not 
previously included under GSP, provided that they are imported directly 
from the least developed beneficiary developing countries.
  This notice is submitted in accordance with the requirements of title 
V of the Trade Act of 1974.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, May 30, 1997.

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