[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 127 (Monday, July 1, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 33845-33846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16743]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Customs Service
19 CFR Parts 10, 12, 102 and 134
[T.D. 96-48]
RIN 1515-AB34
Rules for Determining the Country of Origin of a Good for
Purposes of Annex 311 of the North American Free Trade Agreement;
Corrections
AGENCY: U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Final rule; corrections.
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SUMMARY: This document makes corrections to the document published in
the Federal Register which set forth final amendments to the Customs
Regulations regarding the rules for determining when the country of
origin of a good is one of the parties to the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) as required by Annex 311 of the NAFTA.
EFFECTIVE DATE: These corrections are effective August 5, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra L. Gethers, Office of
Regulations and Rulings (202-482-6980).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 6, 1996, Customs published in the Federal Register (61 FR
28932) as T.D. 96-48 a document which adopted as a final rule, with
some modifications, interim amendments to the Customs Regulations that
established the rules for determining when the country of origin of a
good is one of the parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) as required by Annex 311 of the NAFTA. Those final NAFTA
Marking Rules apply only to all goods imported from Canada or Mexico
other than textile and apparel products, and do not apply to trade with
other countries. The June 6, 1996, notice provided for an August 5,
1996, effective date for the final regulations.
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This document corrects some errors published in T.D. 96-48.
Several errors involved the Background discussion under the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION portion of the document. In the discussion of
the effective date of the final regulations in relation to previously-
published final regulations regarding country of origin rules for
textile products, reference was inadvertently made to July 1, 1996,
thus creating some confusion since the EFFECTIVE DATE portion of T.D.
96-48 specified August 5, 1996. In addition, four Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) heading or subheading references
were inadvertently omitted from the list of conforming changes made to
the regulatory texts to reflect the 1996 version of the HTSUS.
Two errors also appeared in the final regulatory texts in the table
under Sec. 102.20 which sets forth the specific rules by tariff
classification. First, in the second tariff shift rule for subheading
2836.99, the words ``other than to bismuth carbonate'' were omitted,
with the result that the rule as published overlaps with the first
tariff shift rule for that subheading and thus does not properly
reflect the changes made in the 1996 HTSUS. Second, the final
regulatory texts inadvertently failed to implement a proposal, set
forth in a document published in the Federal Register on May 5, 1995
(60 FR 22312), to remove the Note to Section XVI which, as stated in
that May 5, 1995, document, would no longer be necessary in view of a
proposed change to Sec. 102.17(e) that was adopted in the final
regulatory texts.
Corrections of Publication
Accordingly, the document published in the Federal Register as T.D.
96-48 on June 6, 1996 (61 FR 28932) is corrected as set forth below.
Corrections to the Background Section
1. On page 28934, in the first column in the second full paragraph,
in the second sentence, the words ``will take effect on July 1, 1996,
when'' are corrected to read ``will not take effect before''.
2. On page 28934, in the third column under the heading ``Changes
to Conform to 1996 HTSUS'', after the colon in the third sentence, the
reference ``1517.90,'' is added after ``0901.90,''.
3. On page 28935, in the first column, the references ``8545.11,
8547.90, 8548,'' are added at the end of the first line after
``8543.40-8543.89,''.
Corrections to the Final Regulations
4. On page 28961, in the ``Tariff shift and/or other requirements''
column opposite the ``HTSUS'' column listing for 2836.99, in the second
tariff shift rule, the words ``other than to bismuth carbonate'' are
added after the words ``A change to subheading 2836.99''.
5. On page 28971, the Note to Section XVI is removed.
Dated: June 26, 1996.
Stuart P. Seidel,
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Regulations and Rulings.
[FR Doc. 96-16743 Filed 6-28-96; 8:45 am]
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