[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 2, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17565]
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Part V
The President
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Proclamation 7011--To Implement the World Trade Organization
Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products and
the Agreement on Distilled Spirits
Executive Order 13053--Adding Members to and Extending the President's
Council on Sustainable Development
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 127 / Wednesday, July 2, 1997 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7011 of June 30, 1997
To Implement the World Trade Organization
Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information
Technology Products and the Agreement on Distilled
Spirits
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On December 13, 1996, the first Ministerial Meeting
of the World Trade Organization (``the WTO'') issued a
Declaration On Trade In Information Technology Products
(``the ITA''), which established a framework for
expanding world trade in information technology
products and enhancing market access opportunities for
such products. To implement that declaration, 42 WTO
members and governments in the process of acceding to
the WTO agreed to eliminate duties on information
technology products. These products encompass computers
and computer equipment, semiconductors and integrated
circuits, computer software products,
telecommunications equipment, semiconductor
manufacturing equipment, and computer-based analytical
instruments. The participants further agreed on the
common objective of achieving, where appropriate, a
common classification of such goods for tariff purposes
within the existing nomenclature of the Harmonized
Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), and on a
possible future joint suggestion to the World Customs
Organization to update existing HS nomenclature or to
otherwise remedy any divergence in classification of
such goods or in interpretation of the HS nomenclature.
2. The United States and the European Union, on behalf
of its 15 member states, also reached agreement at the
WTO Ministerial Meeting on the elimination of duties on
certain distilled spirits.
3. Section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
(URAA)(19 U.S.C. 3521(b)) authorizes the President to
proclaim the modification of any duty or staged rate
reduction of any duty set forth in Schedule XX for
products in tariff categories that were the subject of
reciprocal duty elimination or harmonization
negotiations during the Uruguay Round, if the United
States agrees to such action in a multilateral
negotiation under the auspices of the WTO and after
compliance with the requirements of section 115 of the
URAA (19 U.S.C. 3524). The products covered by the ITA
and the Agreement on Distilled Spirits were the subject
of reciprocal duty elimination negotiations during the
Uruguay Round.
4. Accordingly, pursuant to section 111(b) of the URAA,
I have determined to proclaim modifications in the
tariff categories and rates of duty set forth in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (``the HTS''), as set forth
in the Annexes to this proclamation.
5. Proclamation 6763 of December 23, 1994, implemented
the tariff and other customs treatment resulting from
the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations,
as set forth in Schedule XX, with respect to the United
States. Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993,
implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement
(``the NAFTA'') with respect to the United States and
incorporated in the HTS the tariff modifications and
rules of origin necessary or appropriate to carry out
or apply the NAFTA. Certain tariff provisions
established by these proclamations, including staged
reductions in rates of duty, and certain NAFTA rules of
origin must be modified
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in light of the implementation of the ITA, to ensure
that the previously proclaimed tariff and other customs
treatment will be continued, and to take into account
the tariff treatment provided for in the ITA.
Accordingly, I have determined to modify the HTS in
order to continue or provide such tariff and other
customs treatment.
6. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(``the 1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the
President to embody in the HTS the substance of the
relevant provisions of that Act, and of other acts
affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder,
including 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 of America, including but not limited to
section 111(b) of the URAA and section 604 of the 1974
Act, do hereby proclaim:
(1) In order to provide for the immediate or staged
elimination of duties on the information technology
products covered by the ITA and on certain distilled
spirits, and to make conforming changes in other
provisions, the HTS is modified as set forth in the
Annexes to this proclamation.
(2) The modifications to the HTS made by this
proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption,
on or after the dates specified in the Annexes to this
proclamation.
(3) 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
thirtieth day of June, 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.
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[FR Doc. 97-17565
Filed 7-1-97; 11:07 am]
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