[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8115-8118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-3864]


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[Federal Register: February 17, 1994]




                        Presidential Documents 



                Proclamation 6650 of February 16, 1994

 

To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences 
                and for Other Purposes

                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 Kazakhstan and Romania as 
                beneficiary developing countries for purposes of the 
                Generalized System of Preferences (``GSP'').

                2. Proclamation No. 6579 of July 4, 1993, implemented 
                an accelerated schedule of duty elimination and 
                modified the rules of origin under the United States-
                Canada Free-Trade Agreement. Proclamation No. 6641 of 
                December 15, 1993, implemented the North American Free 
                Trade Agreement. Certain conforming changes and 
                technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
                of the United States (``HTS'') were omitted from these 
                proclamations. I have decided that it is appropriate to 
                modify the HTS to make such changes and corrections.

                3. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) 
                authorizes the President to embody in the 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 of America, 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 
                countries whose products are eligible for benefits of 
                the GSP, is modified by inserting ``Kazakhstan'' and 
                ``Romania'' in alphabetical order in the enumeration of 
                independent countries.
                    (2) In order to make conforming changes and 
                technical corrections in certain HTS provisions, 
                pursuant to actions taken in Proclamation No. 6579 and 
                Proclamation No. 6641, the HTS and Proclamation No. 
                6641 are modified as provided in the annex to this 
                proclamation, effective as of the dates specified in 
                such annex.
                    (3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of 
                this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent 
                of such inconsistency.
                    (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 
                sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and eighteenth.

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