[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51173-51175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25824]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Technical Corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS); effective date.

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SUMMARY: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is making 
technical corrections to the HTSUS, pursuant to authority granted to 
the President in section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 and delegated by 
the President to the USTR in Proclamation 6969 (62 FR 4415). These 
modifications will correct errors in prior proclamations, so that the 
intended tariff treatment is accorded.

ADDRESSES: Office of the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th 
Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20508.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Chattin, Director For Tariff 
Affairs, (202) 395-5097, or Catherine Field, Senior Counsel For 
Multilateral Affairs, (202) 395-3432.

CORRECTION: The HTS is modified as set forth below with respect to 
goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
the effective dates specified for the enumerated actions.

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    Explanation of Correction: The action designated in section 1, 
would correct the misspelling in the article description of a tariff 
category created to implement a concession under the NAFTA, effective 
as of the date of entry into force of that agreement. The new tariff 
provision created in section 2 would correct the inadvertent deletion 
by Pres. Proclamation 7011 of a pre-existing temporary duty suspension 
on particular semiconductor machinery. Proclamation 7011 implemented 
the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) for the United States. Annex 
B to that Proclamation failed to continue a pre-existing duty 
suspension provision, since the goods covered by the duty suspension 
now fall in another provision of chapter 84. The duty suspension 
provision of chapter 99 must be amended accordingly to reflect the 
tariff subheading now applicable to these goods. The continuation of 
the duty suspension (which is scheduled to continue through the close 
of 2000) allows the subject products to continue to enter the customs 
territory free of duty, rather than to enter at the rates of duty 
(being reduced in stages) provided under the ITA.
Frederick L. Montgomery,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-25824 Filed 9-29-97; 8:45 am]
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