[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 246 (Thursday, December 21, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 80723-80732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32742]


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                Proclamation 7388 of December 18, 2000

                
To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the 
                Generalized System of Preferences for Sub-Saharan 
                African Countries and for Other Purposes

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 506A(b)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
                amended (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2466a(b)(1)), as 
                added by section 111(a) of the African Growth and 
                Opportunity Act (Title I of Public Law 106-200) (AGOA), 
                authorizes the President to provide duty-free treatment 
                under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to 
                any article described in section 503(b)(1)(B) through 
                (G) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(b)(1)(B)-(G)) that 
                is the growth, product, or manufacture of a designated 
                beneficiary sub-Saharan African country, if, after 
                taking into account the advice of the United States 
                International Trade Commission (USITC), the President 
                determines that such article is not import-sensitive in 
                the context of imports from beneficiary sub-Saharan 
                African countries.

                2. Proclamation 7350 of October 2, 2000, designated 
                certain countries listed in section 107 of the AGOA as 
                beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries.

                3. Pursuant to section 506A(b)(1) of the 1974 Act, and 
                having taken into account the advice of the USITC, I 
                have determined that certain articles are not import-
                sensitive in the context of imports from beneficiary 
                sub-Saharan African countries. I have determined to 
                designate those articles as eligible for duty-free 
                treatment under the GSP. I have decided to designate 
                these articles by inserting the symbol ``D'' in the 
                Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn of the Harmonized 
                Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) for 
                subheadings covering such articles.

                4. Section 213(b)(3)(A) of the Caribbean Basin Economic 
                Recovery Act (CBERA) (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(3)(A)), as 
                amended by section 211(a) of the United States-
                Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (Title II of 
                Public Law 106-200) (CBTPA), provides that the tariff 
                treatment accorded at any time during the transition 
                period defined in section 213(b)(5)(D) of the CBERA (19 
                U.S.C. 2703(b)(5)(D)), as amended by section 211(a) of 
                the CBTPA, to certain articles that are originating 
                goods of designated CBTPA beneficiary countries shall 
                be identical to the tariff treatment that is accorded 
                at such time under Annex 302.2 of the North American 
                Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to an article described in 
                the same 8-digit subheading of the HTS that is a good 
                of Mexico and is imported into the United States. Such 
                articles are described in section 213(b)(1)(B) through 
                (F) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(1)(B)-(F)), as 
                amended by section 211(a) of the CBTPA.

                5. Proclamation 7351 of October 2, 2000, designated 
                certain countries as CBTPA beneficiary countries and 
                reflected in the HTS the tariff treatment provided 
                under the CBTPA, which became effective on that date 
                with respect to those CBTPA beneficiary countries 
                enumerated in a Federal Register notice issued by the 
                United States Trade Representative. The Annex to 
                Proclamation 7351 designated certain HTS subheadings 
                covering articles described in section 213(b)(1)(B) 
                through (F) of the CBERA as eligible for the tariff 
                treatment authorized by section 213(b)(3)(A) of the 
                CBERA. Certain

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                HTS provisions covering watches and watch parts and 
                footwear were inadvertently omitted. I have determined 
                that these provisions should be designated as covering 
                articles eligible for the tariff treatment authorized 
                by section 213(b)(3)(A) of the CBERA.

                6. Proclamation 7351 incorporated into the HTS the 
                provisions of the CBTPA concerning the tariff treatment 
                of certain textile and apparel articles imported into 
                the United States from designated CBTPA beneficiary 
                countries, pursuant to section 213(b)(2) of the CBERA 
                (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(2)), as amended by section 211(a) of 
                the CBTPA. I have determined that a technical error in 
                one of the legal notes to chapter 98 of the HTS created 
                by the Annex to that proclamation should be corrected.

                7. Section 604 of 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 the 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 title V and section 
                604 of the 1974 Act, section 111 of the AGOA, section 
                211 of the CBTPA, and section 213 of the CBERA, do 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide duty-free treatment under 
                the GSP to certain articles when imported from 
                designated beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, 
                the HTS is modified as provided in Annex I to this 
                proclamation.
                    (2) In order to accord, at any time during the 
                transition period, to certain watches and watch parts 
                described in section 213(b)(1)(E) of the CBERA, when 
                such watches and watch parts are CBTPA originating 
                goods, the identical tariff treatment that is accorded 
                at such time under Annex 302.2 of the NAFTA to an 
                article described in the same 8-digit subheading of the 
                HTS that is a good of Mexico and is imported into the 
                United States, chapter 91 of the HTS is modified as 
                provided in Annex II to this proclamation.
                    (3) In order to make a technical correction in U.S. 
                note 2(c) to subchapter XX of chapter 98 of the HTS, 
                such note is modified as provided in Annex II to this 
                proclamation.
                    (4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive orders that are inconsistent with this 
                proclamation are superseded to the extent of such 
                inconsistency.
                    (5)(a) The modifications made by Annex I to this 
                proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after the date of publication of 
                this proclamation in the Federal Register.

                 (b) The modifications made by Annex II to this 
                proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after October 2, 2000.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand, and of the Independence of the United States 
                of America the two hundred and twenty-fifth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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