[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 69459-69464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7626 of November 13, 2002

                
To Implement Modifications to the Caribbean Basin 
                Economic Recovery Act and the African Growth and 
                Opportunity Act

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Section 3107 of the Trade Act of 2002 (Public Law 
                107-210) amended the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 
                Act (Title II of the Trade Act of 2000, Public Law 106-
                200) (CBERA) to modify the type and quantity of textile 
                and apparel articles eligible for the preferential 
                tariff treatment now accorded to designated beneficiary 
                Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) 
                countries.

                2. Section 3108 of the Trade Act of 2002 amended the 
                African Growth and Opportunity Act (Title I of the 
                Trade Act of 2000, Public Law 106-200) (AGOA) to modify 
                the type and quantity of textile and apparel articles 
                eligible for the preferential tariff treatment now 
                accorded to designated beneficiary sub-Saharan African 
                countries.

                3. In order to implement the tariff treatment provided 
                under sections 3107 and 3108 of the Trade Act of 2002, 
                it is necessary to modify the Harmonized Tariff 
                Schedule of the United States (HTS).

                4. 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, including section 604 of the 1974 Trade 
                Act, do proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide the preferential treatment 
                provided for in section 213(b)(2)(A) of the CBERA (19 
                U.S.C. 2703(b)(2)(A)), as amended by section 3107(a) of 
                the Trade Act of 2002, the HTS is modified as provided 
                in Annex I to this proclamation.
                    (2) In order to provide for the preferential 
                treatment provided for in section 112(b) of the AGOA 
                (19 U.S.C. 3721(b)), as amended by section 3108(a) of 
                the Trade Act of 2002, the HTS is modified as provided 
                in Annex II to this proclamation.
                    (3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and 
                Executive Orders that are inconsistent with this 
                proclamation are superseded to the extent of such 
                inconsistency.
                    (4) This proclamation is effective with respect to 
                eligible articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
                for consumption, on or after August 6, 2002; except 
                that section I of Annex I to this proclamation relating 
                to the dyeing, printing, and finishing of fabrics shall 
                be effective with respect to eligible articles entered, 
                or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
                after September 1, 2002; and except that section II of 
                Annex I and Annex II relating to increases in the 
                amount of certain articles eligible for duty-free 
                treatment shall be effective with respect to articles 
                entered, or withdrawn

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                from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates 
                provided in such annex sections.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirteenth day of November, 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.

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[FR Doc. 02-29372
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