[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 223 (Monday, November 18, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 58761-58765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29613]


      

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Part V





The President





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Proclamation 6955--To Provide Duty-Free Treatment to Products of the 
West Bank and the Gaza Strip and Qualifying Industrial Zones
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                Proclamation 6955 of November 13, 1996

                
To Provide Duty-Free Treatment to Products of the 
                West Bank and the Gaza Strip and Qualifying Industrial 
                Zones

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 9(a) of the United States-Israel Free Trade 
                Area Implementation Act of 1985, as amended (the 
                ``Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2112 note), authorizes the 
                President to proclaim elimination or modification of 
                any existing duty under certain conditions as the 
                President determines is necessary to exempt any article 
                of the West Bank or Gaza Strip or a qualifying 
                industrial zone from duty.

                2. Section 9(c) of the Act authorizes the President to 
                proclaim that articles of Israel may be treated as 
                though they were articles directly shipped from Israel 
                for the purposes of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade 
                Agreement (the ``Agreement'') even if shipped to the 
                United States from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or a 
                qualifying industrial zone, if the articles otherwise 
                meet the requirements of the Agreement.

                3. Section 9(d) of the Act authorizes the President to 
                proclaim that the cost or value of materials produced 
                in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or a qualifying 
                industrial zone may be included in the cost or value of 
                materials produced in Israel under section 1(c)(i) of 
                Annex 3 of the Agreement, and the direct costs of 
                processing operations performed in the West Bank, the 
                Gaza Strip, or a qualifying industrial zone may be 
                included in the direct costs of processing operations 
                performed in Israel under section 1(c)(ii) of Annex 3 
                of the Agreement.

                4. Section 9(e) of the Act authorizes the President to 
                specify areas that constitute qualifying industrial 
                zones for purposes of the Act.

                5. Pursuant to section 9(a) of the Act, I have 
                determined that the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
                United States (HTS) should be modified to provide duty-
                free entry to qualifying articles that are the product 
                of the West Bank or Gaza Strip or a qualifying 
                industrial zone and are entered in accordance with the 
                provisions of section 9 of the Act.

                6. I have decided that articles of Israel may be 
                treated as though they were articles directly shipped 
                from Israel for the purposes of the Agreement even if 
                shipped to the United States from the West Bank, the 
                Gaza Strip, or a qualifying industrial zone, if the 
                articles otherwise meet the requirements of the 
                Agreement.

                7. I have decided that the cost or value of materials 
                produced in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or a 
                qualifying industrial zone may be included in the cost 
                or value of materials produced in Israel under section 
                1(c)(i) of Annex 3 of the Agreement, and the direct 
                costs of processing operations performed in the West 
                Bank, the Gaza Strip, or a qualifying industrial zone 
                may be included in the direct costs of processing 
                operations performed in Israel under section 1(c)(ii) 
                of Annex 3 of the Agreement.

                8. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (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.

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                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 section 301 
                of title 3, United States Code, section 9 of the Act 
                (19 U.S.C. 2112 note), and section 604 of the Trade Act 
                of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2483), do proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide the tariff treatment being 
                accorded under the Act, the HTS is modified as set 
                forth in the Annex to this proclamation.
                    (2) I delegate to the United States Trade 
                Representative the powers granted to me in section 9(e) 
                of the Act to specify through notice in the Federal 
                Register areas constituting qualifying industrial 
                zones.
                    (3) The modifications to the HTS made by the Annex 
                shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or 
                withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on and after 
                the third day after the date of publication of this 
                proclamation in the Federal Register.
                    (4) All 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 
                thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-first.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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