[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19017-19020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10134]



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Part VI





The President





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 Proclamation 6988--To Modify Application of Duty-Free Treatment Under 
the Generalized System of Preferences

Proclamation 6989--National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 1997
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                Proclamation 6988 of April 11, 1997

                
To Modify Application of Duty-Free Treatment 
                Under the Generalized System of Preferences

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Sections 502(d)(1) and 503(c)(1) of the Trade Act of 
                1974, as amended by Public Law 104-188; 110 Stat. 1755, 
                1920, 1922 (``the 1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2462(d)(1) and 
                2463(c)(1)), provide that the President may withdraw, 
                suspend, or limit the application of the duty-free 
                treatment accorded under the Generalized System of 
                Preferences (GSP) with respect to any country and any 
                article upon consideration of the factors set forth in 
                sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461 
                and 2462(c)). Pursuant to sections 502(d)(1) and 
                503(c)(1) of the 1974 Act and having considered the 
                factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of such 
                Act, including, in particular, section 502(c)(5) (19 
                U.S.C. 2464(c)(5)) on the extent to which a designated 
                beneficiary developing country is providing adequate 
                and effective protection of intellectual property 
                rights, I have determined that it is appropriate to 
                suspend the duty-free treatment accorded under the GSP 
                to certain eligible articles that are the product of 
                Argentina, as provided in the Annex to this 
                proclamation.

                2. Section 604 of the 1974 Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
                2483), 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 sections 
                502(d)(1), 503(c)(1), and 604 of the 1974 Act, do 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide that Argentina should no 
                longer be treated as a beneficiary developing country 
                with respect to certain eligible articles for purposes 
                of the GSP, the HTS is modified as provided in the 
                Annex to this proclamation.
                    (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive orders that are inconsistent with the actions 
                and provisions of this proclamation are superseded to 
                the extent of such inconsistency.
                    (3) The modifications made by this proclamation 
                shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) 
                imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, 
                or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
                after 30 days after the date of publication of this 
                proclamation in the Federal Register.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-seven, and of the Independence of 
                the United States of America the two hundred and 
                twenty-first.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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