[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 6, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 36549-36557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17291]



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Part VII





The President





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Proclamation 7207--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade 
Relations Treatment) to Products of Mongolia and To Implement an 
Agreement To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals and Chemical 
Intermediates
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                Proclamation 7207 of July 1, 1999

                
To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal 
                Trade Relations Treatment) to Products of Mongolia and 
                To Implement an Agreement To Eliminate Tariffs on 
                Certain Pharmaceuticals and Chemical Intermediates

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. The United States has had in effect a bilateral 
                Agreement on Trade Relations with Mongolia since 1991 
                and has provided normal trade relations treatment to 
                the products of Mongolia since that time. I have found 
                Mongolia to be in full compliance with the freedom of 
                emigration requirements of title IV of the Trade Act of 
                1974 (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2432).

                2. Pursuant to section 2424(b)(1) of Public Law 106-36, 
                and having due regard for the findings of the Congress 
                in section 2424(a) of said Law, I hereby determine that 
                title IV of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2431-2441) should 
                no longer apply to Mongolia.

                3. On November 13, 1998, members of the World Trade 
                Organization (WTO), including the United States and 21 
                other major trading countries, announced in the WTO an 
                agreement to eliminate tariffs on certain 
                pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates that were 
                the subject of reciprocal duty elimination negotiations 
                during the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade 
                Negotiations (the ``Uruguay Round''). A similar 
                agreement between the United States and 16 other major 
                trading countries eliminating tariffs on enumerated 
                pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates was 
                implemented for the United States on April 1, 1997, by 
                Proclamation 6982, adding such goods to the scope of 
                the agreement on pharmaceutical products reached at the 
                conclusion of the Uruguay Round and reflected in 
                Schedule XX-United States of America, annexed to the 
                Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs 
                and Trade (1994) (Schedule XX).

                4. 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 that were the subject of reciprocal duty 
                elimination 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 consultation and layover 
                requirements of section 115 of the URAA (19 U.S.C. 
                3524). Section 111(b) also authorizes the President to 
                proclaim such modifications as are necessary to reflect 
                such duty treatment in Schedule XX by means of 
                rectifications thereof.

                5. On April 29, 1999, pursuant to section 115 of the 
                URAA, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) 
                submitted a report to the Committee on Ways and Means 
                of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
                Finance of the Senate (``the Committees'') that sets 
                forth the proposed tariff eliminations, together with 
                the advice received from the appropriate private sector 
                advisory committee and the United States International 
                Trade Commission regarding the proposed tariff 
                eliminations. During the 60-day period thereafter, the 
                USTR consulted with the Committees on the proposed 
                actions.

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                6. Section 604 of the Trade 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.

                7. Pursuant to section 111(b) of the URAA, I have 
                determined that Schedule XX should be modified to 
                reflect the implementation by the United States of the 
                multilateral agreement on certain pharmaceuticals and 
                chemical intermediates negotiated under the auspices of 
                the WTO. In addition, I have determined that the 
                pharmaceuticals appendix to the HTS should be modified 
                to reflect the duty eliminations provided in such 
                agreement, and to make certain minor technical 
                corrections in the identification of particular 
                products in order to ensure that products are accorded 
                the intended duty treatment.

                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 
                2424(b)(2) of Public Law 106-36, section 111(b) of the 
                URAA, and section 604 of the Trade Act, do hereby 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade 
                relations treatment) shall be extended to the products 
                of Mongolia, which shall no longer be subject to title 
                IV of the Trade Act.
                    (2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to 
                the products of Mongolia shall be effective as of the 
                date of signature of this proclamation.
                    (3) In order to implement the multilateral 
                agreement negotiated under the auspices of the WTO to 
                eliminate tariffs on certain pharmaceutical products 
                and chemical intermediates, and to make technical 
                corrections in the tariff treatment accorded to such 
                products, the HTS is modified as set forth in the Annex 
                to this proclamation.
                    (4) Such modifications to the HTS shall be 
                effective with respect to articles entered, or 
                withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
                the dates set forth in the Annex for the respective 
                actions taken.
                    (5) 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.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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