[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 5, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 67283-67291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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                Proclamation 7616 of October 31, 2002

                
To Implement the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug

                Eradication Act

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 3103 of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug 
                Eradication Act (title XXXI of the Trade Act of 2002, 
                Public Law 107-210) (ATPDEA) amended section 204(b) of 
                the Andean Trade Preference Act (19 U.S.C. 3203(b)) 
                (ATPA) to provide that certain preferential tariff 
                treatment may be provided to eligible articles that are 
                the product of any country that the President 
                designates as an ``ATPDEA beneficiary country'' 
                pursuant to section 204(b)(6)(B) of the ATPA, as 
                amended, provided that the President determines that 
                the country has satisfied the requirements of section 
                204(b)(5)(A)(ii)(I) of the ATPA, as amended, relating 
                to the implementation of procedures and requirements 
                similar to those in chapter 5 of the North American 
                Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

                2. Section 3103(a)(2) of the ATPDEA amended section 
                204(b) of the ATPA to authorize the President to 
                proclaim duty-free treatment for any article described 
                in section 204(b)(1)(A) through (D) of the ATPA, as 
                amended, that is the growth, product, or manufacture of 
                an ATPDEA beneficiary country, that is imported 
                directly into the customs territory of the United 
                States from an ATPDEA beneficiary country, and that 
                meets the requirements of section 204 of the ATPA, as 
                amended, if the President determines that such article 
                is not import-sensitive in the context of imports from 
                ATPDEA beneficiary countries, provided that the 
                President determines that the country has satisfied the 
                requirements of section 204(b)(5)(A)(ii)(I) of the 
                ATPA, as amended, relating to the implementation of 
                procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter 
                5 of the NAFTA.

                3. Section 3103(a)(2) of the ATPDEA amended section 
                204(b) of the ATPA to provide that eligible textile and 
                apparel articles of a designated ATPDEA beneficiary 
                country shall enter the United States free of duty and 
                free of quantitative limitations, provided that the 
                President determines that the country has satisfied the 
                requirements of section 204(b)(5)(A)(ii)(I) of the 
                ATPA, as amended, relating to the implementation of 
                procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter 
                5 of the NAFTA.

                4. Section 3103(a)(2) of the ATPDEA amended section 
                204(b) of the ATPA to provide that eligible tuna 
                products of a designated ATPDEA beneficiary country 
                shall enter the United States free of duty and free of 
                quantitative limitations, provided that the President 
                determines that the country has satisfied the 
                requirements of section 204(b)(5)(A)(ii)(I) of the 
                ATPA, as amended, relating to the implementation of 
                procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter 
                5 of the NAFTA.

                5. Section 203(e)(2)(A) of the ATPA (19 U.S.C. 
                3202(e)(2)(A)) requires the President to publish in the 
                Federal Register notice of proposed action under 
                section 203(e)(1) of the ATPA (19 U.S.C. 3202(e)(1)) at 
                least 30 days prior to taking such action. Section 
                212(e)(2)(A) of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 
                Act (CBERA) (19 U.S.C. 2702(e)(2)(A)) requires the 
                President to publish in the Federal Register notice of 
                proposed action under section 212(e)(1) of the CBERA 
                (19 U.S.C. 2702(e)(1)) at least 30 days prior to taking 
                such action.

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                6. In order to implement the tariff treatment provided 
                under the ATPDEA, it is necessary to modify the 
                Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS).

                7. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
                2483) (1974 Trade Act) 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, 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 of America, including section 604 of the 
                1974 Trade Act, do proclaim as follows:

                    (1) I have designated the following countries as 
                ATPDEA beneficiary countries pursuant to section 
                204(b)(6)(B) of the ATPA, as amended, and have 
                determined that these countries have satisfied the 
                requirements of section 204(b)(5)(A)(ii)(I) of the 
                ATPA, as amended, relating to the implementation of 
                procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter 
                5 of the NAFTA:

                Bolivia

                Colombia

                Ecuador

                Peru.

                    (2) In order to provide for the preferential 
                treatment provided for in section 204(b) of the ATPA, 
                as amended, the HTS is modified as provided in the 
                annex to this proclamation.
                    (3) The functions of the President under section 
                203(e)(2)(A) of the ATPA and section 212(e)(2)(A) of 
                the CBERA with respect to publishing notice of this 
                proclamation are delegated to the United States Trade 
                Representative.
                    (4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive Orders that are inconsistent with this 
                proclamation are superseded to the extent of such 
                inconsistency.
                    (5) This proclamation is effective on the date of 
                signature.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

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