[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 15 (Thursday, January 23, 2003)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 3163-3167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1658]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7641 of January 17, 2003

                
To Modify Rules of Origin Under the North 
                American Free Trade Agreement

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993, 
                implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement 
                (the ``NAFTA'') with respect to the United States and, 
                pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement 
                Implementation Act (the ``NAFTA Implementation Act''), 
                incorporated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
                United States (the ``HTS'') the tariff modifications 
                and rules of origin necessary or appropriate to carry 
                out the NAFTA.

                2. Section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act provides 
                rules for determining whether goods imported into the 
                United States originate in the territory of a NAFTA 
                party and thus are eligible for the tariff and other 
                treatment contemplated under the NAFTA. Section 202(q) 
                of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3332(q)) 
                authorizes the President to proclaim, as a part of the 
                HTS, the rules of origin set out in the NAFTA and to 
                proclaim modifications to such previously proclaimed 
                rules of origin, subject to the consultation and 
                layover requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3313(a)).

                3. I have determined that the modifications to the HTS 
                proclaimed in this proclamation pursuant to sections 
                201 and 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act are 
                appropriate. For goods of Mexico, I have decided that 
                the effective date of the modifications shall be 
                determined by the United States Trade Representative 
                (USTR).

                4. 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 that Act, 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 Act, 
                section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, and 
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code, do hereby 
                proclaim:

                    (1) In order to modify the rules of origin under 
                the NAFTA, general note 12 to the HTS is modified as 
                provided in the Annex to this proclamation.
                    (2) 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.
                    (3) The modifications made by the Annex to this 
                proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods 
                of Canada that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
                for consumption, on or after January 1, 2003. The 
                modifications made by such Annex shall be effective 
                with respect to goods of Mexico that are entered, or 
                withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after a 
                date to be announced in the Federal Register by the 
                USTR.

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

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