[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 235 (Thursday, December 5, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 64581-64585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31136]
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Part III
The President
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Proclamation 6962--To Implement the United States-Israel Agreement on
Trade in Agricultural Products
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 235 / Thursday, December 5, 1996 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6962 of December 2, 1996
To Implement the United States-Israel Agreement
on Trade in Agricultural Products
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On April 22, 1985, the United States entered into
the Agreement on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area
between the Government of the United States of America
and the Government of Israel (``the FTA Agreement''),
approved by the Congress in the United States-Israel
Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985 (``the FTA
Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2112 note).
2. The United States and Israel acknowledge that they
have differing interpretations as to the meaning of
certain rights and obligations in the FTA Agreement, in
particular with respect to market access for certain
United States agricultural products. In order to
maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually
advantageous concessions with respect to agricultural
trade with Israel, on November 4, 1996, the Government
of the United States entered into an agreement with the
Government of Israel concerning certain aspects of
trade in agricultural products, effective December 4,
1996, through December 31, 2001 (``the 1996
Agreement'').
3. Section 4(b) of the FTA Act provides that, whenever
the President determines that it is necessary to
maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually
advantageous concessions with respect to Israel
provided for by the FTA Agreement, the President may
proclaim such withdrawal, suspension, modification, or
continuance of any duty, or such continuance of
existing duty-free or excise treatment, or such
additional duties as the President determines to be
required or appropriate to carry out the FTA Agreement.
4. Pursuant to section 4(b) of the FTA Act, I have
determined that it is necessary, in order to maintain
the general level of reciprocal and mutually
advantageous concessions with respect to Israel, to
provide through the close of December 31, 2001, access
into the United States customs territory for specified
quantities of certain agricultural products of Israel
free of duty or certain fees or other import charges.
5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C.
2483)(``the 1974 Act''), authorizes the President to
embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (``HTS'') the substance of the relevant
provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting
import treatment, and actions thereunder, including the
removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of
any rate of duty or other import restriction.
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 4
of the FTA Act and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do
hereby proclaim:
(1) In order to implement aspects of the 1996
Agreement with the Government of Israel concerning
certain aspects of trade in agricultural products, the
HTS is modified as provided in the Annex to this
proclamation.
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(2) Any 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.
(3) The modifications to the HTS made by the Annex
to this proclamation shall be effective with respect to
goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after the dates set forth in such
Annex, and the tariff treatment set forth therein shall
be effective as provided in such Annex through December
31, 2001.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
second day of December, 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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