[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 23, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7375-7377]
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                Proclamation 7401 of January 17, 2001

                
To Implement an Accelerated Schedule of Duty 
                Elimination Under the North American Free Trade 
                Agreement and for Other Purposes

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, 
                Mexico, and the United States of America entered into 
                the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The 
                NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section 101(a) of 
                the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation 
                Act (the ``NAFTA Implementation Act'') (19 U.S.C. 
                3311(a)) and was implemented with respect to the United 
                States by Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 
                15, 1993.

                2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 
                U.S.C. 3331(b)) authorizes the President, subject to 
                the consultation and layover requirements of section 
                103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 
                3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules for duty 
                elimination that the United States may agree to with 
                Mexico or Canada. Consistent with Article 302(3) of the 
                NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered representative, 
                entered into an agreement with the Government of Mexico 
                on November 30, 2000, providing for an accelerated 
                schedule of duty elimination for specific goods of 
                Mexico. The consultation and layover requirements of 
                section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act with 
                respect to such schedule of duty elimination will be 
                satisfied on December 30, 2000.

                3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act, I have determined that the 
                modifications hereinafter proclaimed of duties on goods 
                originating in the territory of a NAFTA party are 
                necessary or appropriate (i) to maintain the general 
                level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous 
                concessions with respect to Mexico provided for by the 
                NAFTA, and (ii) to carry out the agreement with Mexico 
                providing an accelerated schedule of duty elimination 
                for specific goods.

                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 NAFTA to an 
                article described in the same 8-digit subheading of the 
                Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) 
                that is a good of Mexico and is imported into the 
                United States. Such articles are described in sub 
                paragraphs (B) through (F) of section 213(b)(1) of the 
                CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(1)(B)-(F)), as amended by 
                section 211(a) of the CBTPA.

                5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended 
                (the ``1974 Act'')(19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the 
                President to embody in the HTS the substance of the 
                relevant provisions of Acts affecting import treatment, 
                and actions

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                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, including section 201(b) of the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act, section 211 of the CBTPA, section 
                213 of the CBERA, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide for an accelerated schedule 
                of duty elimination for specific goods of Mexico under 
                the NAFTA and to provide identical tariff treatment for 
                originating goods of a CBTPA beneficiary country 
                provided for in the same HTS subheading, the tariff 
                treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided 
                in section 1 of the Annex to this proclamation.
                    (2) In order to provide for an accelerated schedule 
                of duty elimination for specific goods of Mexico under 
                the NAFTA, the tariff treatment set forth in the HTS is 
                modified as provided in section 2 of the Annex to this 
                proclamation.
                    (3) 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.
                    (4) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to 
                this proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after January 1, 2001.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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