[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
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 223 / Monday, November 18, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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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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