[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13815-13816]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6199]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Technical Correction to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Technical correction to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States.

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SUMMARY: The United States Trade Representative (the USTR) is modifying 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) as set forth 
below, pursuant to authority granted by Congress to the President in 
section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Trade Act) and delegated to the 
USTR in Presidential Proclamation No. 6969 of January 27, 1997 (62 FR 
4415). This technical correction is to ensure that the intended tariff 
treatment is accorded to certain imported valve spring quality wire 
rod.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gordana Earp, Acting Assistant United 
States Trade Representative, (202) 395-6160, or Audrey Winter, 
Associate General Counsel, (202) 395-7305.

Correction to HTS

    Presidential Proclamation 7273 of February 16, 2000 (65 FR 8621) 
modified subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS in order to facilitate 
positive adjustment to competition from imports of certain steel wire 
rod. The proclamation inserted new U.S. note 9 in that subchapter; the 
note provides that various steel products are excluded from the new 
subheadings

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implementing the adjustment action. However, new subdivision (b) of 
note 9, which describes the valve spring quality wire rod intended to 
be excluded from the new tariff subheading, inadvertently misstated the 
purchasers of the subject product. Accordingly, the HTS is modified as 
follows:
    Subdivision (b) of U.S. note 9 to subchapter III of chapter 99 of 
the HTS is modified by deleting the phrase ``order from an automotive 
valve spring or automotive brake spring manufacturer in'' and by 
inserting in lieu thereof the phrase ``order from an automotive valve 
spring manufacturer, automotive valve spring wire manufacturer, 
automotive brake spring manufacturer or automotive brake spring wire 
manufacturer in''.
    This modification to the HTS shall be effective with respect to 
goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
March 1, 2000, and shall continue in effect as if this language had 
been contained in Proclamation 7273, under the terms provided for 
therein.

Charlene Barshefsky,
United States Trade Representative.
[FR Doc. 00-6199 Filed 3-13-00; 8:45 am]
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