[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 7, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 30535-30536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11487]


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                Proclamation 7553 of May 3, 2002

                
To Restore Nondiscriminatory Trade Treatment 
                (Normal Trade Relations Treatment) to the Products of 
                Afghanistan

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 118(a)(1) of Public Law 99-190, 99 Stat. 
                1319, authorized the President to deny 
                nondiscriminatory trade treatment to the products of 
                Afghanistan and thereby cause such products to be 
                subject to the rate of duty in column 2 of the 
                Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS).

                2. Presidential Proclamation 5437 of January 31, 1986, 
                modified the HTS so as to deny nondiscriminatory trade 
                treatment to the products of Afghanistan.

                3. Restoration of nondiscriminatory trade treatment 
                will support U.S. efforts to normalize relations with 
                Afghanistan and facilitate increased trade with the 
                United States, which could contribute to economic 
                growth and assist Afghanistan in rebuilding its 
                economy.

                4. Pursuant to section 118(c)(1) of Public Law 99-190, 
                I have determined that it is appropriate to restore 
                nondiscriminatory trade treatment to the products of 
                Afghanistan and thereby cause such products to be 
                subject to the applicable rate of duty in column 1 of 
                the HTS.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, 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 118 of Public Law 99-
                190, and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
                amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), do hereby proclaim that:

                    (1) Nondiscriminatory trade treatment (normal trade 
                relations treatment) shall be restored to the products 
                of Afghanistan;
                    (2) General note 3(b) of the HTS is modified to 
                exclude Afghanistan; and
                    (3) The restoration of nondiscriminatory trade 
                treatment and the modification to general note 3(b) of 
                the HTS shall be effective with respect to goods 
                entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 
                on or after the thirtieth day after the date of 
                publication of this proclamation in the Federal 
                Register.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

[FR Doc. 02-11487
Filed 5-6-02; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P