[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 31, 2018)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54853-54860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24032]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 83 , No. 211 / Wednesday, October 31, 2018 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 9813 of October 30, 2018
To Modify the List of Products Eligible for Duty-
Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of
Preferences
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Pursuant to section 503(c)(1) of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(1)), the President may withdraw, suspend, or
limit application of the duty-free treatment that is
accorded to specified articles under the Generalized
System of Preferences (GSP) when imported from
designated beneficiary developing countries.
2. Pursuant to section 503(c)(1) of the 1974 Act, and
having considered the factors set forth in sections 501
and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461 and
2462(c)), I have determined to withdraw the application
of the duty-free treatment accorded to a certain
article.
3. Section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(2)(A)) subjects beneficiary developing
countries, except those designated as least-developed
beneficiary developing countries or beneficiary sub-
Saharan African countries as provided in section
503(c)(2)(D) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(D)),
to competitive-need limitations on the duty-free
treatment accorded to eligible articles under the GSP.
4. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act, I
have determined that in 2017 certain beneficiary
developing countries exported eligible articles in
quantities exceeding the applicable competitive-need
limitations. I hereby terminate the duty-free treatment
for such articles from such beneficiary developing
countries.
5. Section 503(d)(1) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(d)(1)) provides that the President may waive the
application of the competitive-need limitations in
section 503(c)(2) of the 1974 Act with respect to any
eligible article from any beneficiary developing
country if certain conditions are met.
6. Pursuant to section 503(d)(1) of the 1974 Act, I
have received the advice of the United States
International Trade Commission on whether any industry
in the United States is likely to be adversely affected
by such waivers of the competitive-need limitations
provided in section 503(c)(2) of the 1974 Act. I have
determined, based on that advice and the considerations
described in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act,
and having given great weight to the considerations in
section 503(d)(2) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(d)(2)), that such waivers are in the national
economic interest of the United States. Accordingly, I
have determined that the competitive-need limitations
of section 503(c)(2) of the 1974 Act should be waived
with respect to certain eligible articles from certain
beneficiary developing countries.
7. Section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(2)(C)) provides that a country that is no
longer treated as a beneficiary developing country with
respect to an eligible article may be redesignated as a
beneficiary developing country with respect to such
article, subject to the considerations set forth in
sections 501 and 502 of the 1974 Act, if imports of
such article from such country did not exceed the
competitive-need limitations in section 503(c)(2)(A) of
the 1974 Act during the preceding calendar year.
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8. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act,
and having taken into account the considerations set
forth in sections 501 and 502 of the 1974 Act, I have
determined to redesignate a certain country as a
beneficiary developing country with respect to a
certain eligible article that during the preceding
calendar year had been imported in quantities not
exceeding the competitive-need limitations of section
503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act.
9. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483)
authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the
substance of the relevant provisions of the 1974 Act,
and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and
actions thereunder, including removal, modification,
continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other
import restriction.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 title V and section
604 of the 1974 Act, do hereby proclaim that:
(1) In order to provide that several countries
should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing
countries with respect to one or more eligible articles
for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special
subcolumn for the corresponding HTS subheadings and
general note 4(d) to the HTS are modified as set forth
in sections A, B, C, and D of Annex I to this
proclamation.
(2) In order to redesignate a certain article as an
eligible article for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of
Duty 1-Special subcolumn for the corresponding HTS
subheadings and general note 4(d) to the HTS are
modified as set forth in sections E and F of Annex I to
this proclamation.
(3) A waiver of the application of section
503(c)(2) of the 1974 Act shall apply to the eligible
articles in the HTS subheadings exported by the
beneficiary developing countries as set forth in Annex
II to this proclamation.
(4) The modifications to the HTS set forth in
Annexes I and II of this proclamation shall be
effective with respect to articles entered for
consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight
time on November 1, 2018.
(5) 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord two
thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
third.
(Presidential Sig.)
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