[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 2008]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-948]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Technical Corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is making 
technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTS) as set forth in the annex to this notice, pursuant to 
authority delegated to the USTR in Presidential Proclamation 6969 of 
January 27, 1997 (62 FR 4415). These modifications correct several 
inadvertent errors and omissions in Presidential Proclamation 7515 of 
December 18, 2001 (66 FR 66,549), so that the intended tariff treatment 
is provided.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 10, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Moore, Director for Market 
Access, Office of the United States Trade Representative, (202) 395-
5097, or David W. Oliver, Associate General Counsel, (202) 395-3581.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Every five years the World Customs 
Organization (WCO), to which the United States belongs, reviews and 
updates the tariff nomenclature annexed to the International Convention 
on the Harmonized Commodity and Coding System (HS Convention) that 
member countries apply. Proclamation 7515 modifies the HTS, which 
incorporates the HS Convention tariff nomenclature, to conform it to 
the most recent changes to the HS Convention tariff nomenclature that 
the WCO has adopted. The annex to this notice makes technical 
corrections to the HTS to remedy several technical errors and omissions 
introduced through the annexes to Proclamation 7515, so that the 
intended tariff treatment is provided. In particular, the annex to this 
notice corrects (1) errors regarding the eligibility of products 
classified in certain subheadings for duty-free treatment under the 
Generalized System of Preferences program, (2) the omission of a tariff 
subheading that implements a change in the HS Convention annex, and (3) 
an omission in the description of a tariff subheading that implements a 
change in the HS Convention annex.
    Proclamation 6969 authorized the USTR to exercise the authority 
provided to the President under section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 
(19 U.S.C. 2483) to embody rectifications, technical or conforming 
changes, or similar modifications in the HTS. Under the authority 
vested in the USTR by Proclamation 6969, the rectifications, technical 
and conforming changes, and similar modifications set forth in the 
annex to this notice shall be embodied in the HTS with respect to goods 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
January 10, 2002.

Robert B. Zoellick,
United States Trade Representative.

Annex

    The HTS is modified as set forth in this annex, with bracketed 
matter included to assist in the understanding of the modifications. 
The following provisions supersede matter now in the HTS. The new 
subheading and superior text thereto being inserted by this notice are 
set forth in columnar format, and material in such columns is inserted 
in the columns of the HTS designated ``Heading/Subheading'', ``Article 
Description'', ``Rates of Duty 1 General'', ``Rates of Duty 1 
Special'', and ``Rates of Duty 2'', respectively.
    Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after January 10, 2002, the HTS is 
modified as follows:
    (1). General note 4(d) is modified by:
    (a). deleting the following subheadings and the country set out 
opposite such subheading:
    1403.00.94 India--4107.19.40 India
    4106.21.10 India; Pakistan--4107.99.40 India
    (b). deleting the country set opposite the following subheadings:
    4103.10.30 India--4107.99.60 India
    4106.21.90 India--4113.10.30 India
    4106.22.00 India--4113.10.60 India
    4107.19.60 India--
    (2). The article description of subheading 0305.20 is modified to 
read:

    ``Livers and roes of fish, dried, smoked, salted or in brine:''

    (3). The following subheading is inserted in numerical sequence:

    :[Residual products of the chemical or allied...] : : :
    ``3825.30.00: Clinical waste.............: Free:: Free''

    (4). For subheadings 1403.00.94 and 4106.21.10, the Rates of Duty 
1-Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol ``A*'' and 
inserting an ``A'' in lieu thereof.

[FR Doc. 02-948 Filed 1-14-02; 8:45 am]
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