[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16449-16450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7616]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Rectification to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative

ACTION: Notice of rectification to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States.

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SUMMARY: The United States Trade Representative (the USTR) is providing 
notice of certain technical rectifications to subheadings in chapter 2 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) pursuant 
to authority granted by Congress to the President in section 604 of the 
Trade Act of 1974 and delegated to the USTR in Presidential 
Proclamation No. 6969 of January 27, 1997 (62 FR 4415). These 
rectifications will correct omissions that occurred when the HTS was 
modified to reflect the Uruguay Round conversion of the U.S. quota on 
beef to a tariff-rate quota and will ensure that the United States 
continues to meet its obligations under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade 
Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement with respect to 
goods of Canada, under the terms of general note 12 to the HTS, that 
are classified in HTS subheadings relating to meat from bovine animals.

DATES: The effective date of the rectifications is January 1, 1995, for 
all goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, under 
the specified HTS subheadings, for which the liquidation of duties has 
not become final under 9 U.S.C. 1514.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Sloan, Office of Agricultural 
Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, 600 17th Street, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20508, (202) 395-6127.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade 
Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement, the United 
States agreed to provide Canada duty-free treatment for meat of bovine 
animals classified in chapter 2 of the HTS under tariff headings 0201 
and 0202 and constituting goods of Canada, under the terms of general 
note 12 to the HTS. Duty-free treatment for meat from bovine animals 
comprising goods of Canada commenced on January 1, 1994. However, when 
the HTS was modified in 1995 to reflect the creation of a U.S. tariff-
rate quota consistent for beef with the World Trade Organization 
Agreement on Agriculture, the tariff subheadings related to imports of 
meat from bovine animals not included in the United States tariff-rate 
quota, which is set forth in additional U.S. note 3 to chapter 2 of the 
HTS, were inadvertently not modified to provide Canada a special rate 
of duty of ``free'' for six tariff subheadings in the HTS: 0201.10.50; 
0201.20.80; 0201.30.80; 0202.10.50; 0202.20.80; and 0202.30.80. This 
notice rectifies that omission in the HTS and reflects the duty-free 
treatment that should be accorded to meat of bovine animals, the 
foregoing being goods of Canada under the terms of general note 12 to 
the HTS, not covered by the tariff-rate quota set forth in additional 
U.S. note 3 to chapter 2 of the HTS. Duty-free treatment for beef from 
bovine animals that comprises goods of Canada is already provided for 
in the HTS.
    Proclamation 6969 of January 27, 1997 (62 FR 4415, January 29, 
1997) authorized the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to 
exercise the authority provided to the President under section 604 of 
the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by Public Law 100-418, 88 Stat. 2073 
(19 U.S.C. 2483), 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 rectifications, technical or 
conforming changes, or similar modifications in the HTS. Under 
authority vested in the USTR by Proclamation 6969 and the authority 
vested in the President by the Constitution and the laws of the United 
States, including, but not limited to, section 604 of the Trade Act of 
1974, the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act 
of 1988, P.L. 100-449 (19 U.S.C. 2112 note), and the North American 
Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act, P.L. 103-182 (19 U.S.C. 3301 
et seq.), the following subheadings of chapter 2 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States are modified by inserting, in the 
Rates of Duty1-Special subcolumn in the parentheses following the 
``Free'' rate of duty the symbol ``CA'' in alphabetical order: 
0201.10.50;

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0201.20.80; 0201.30.80; 0202.10.50; 0202.20.80; and 0202.30.80. This 
modification to the identified HTS subheadings shall be effective with 
respect to goods of Canada that are entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1995, for which the 
liquidation of duties has not become final under 19 U.S.C. 1514.
    The tariff rectification and duty treatment provided herein shall 
be applicable to the aforementioned entries of goods under the 
specified HTS subheadings provided that the importer supplies any 
information that may be requested by the United States Customs Service 
to permit identification of each such entry (including, but not limited 
to, the entry number for the shipment concerned).

Robert T. Novick,
Acting United States Trade Representative.
[FR Doc. 00-7616 Filed 3-27-00; 8:45 am]
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