[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 235 (Thursday, December 5, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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The President





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Proclamation 6962--To Implement the United States-Israel Agreement on 
Trade in Agricultural Products
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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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