    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1997, Book I)]
    [May 30, 1997]
    [Pages 682-683]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on the Generalized System of Preferences
    May 30, 1997

    To the Congress of the United States:
        The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program offers duty-free
    treatment to specified products that are imported from designated
    developing countries. The program is authorized by title V of the Trade
    Act of 1974, as amended.
        Pursuant to title V, I have determined that Cambodia should be
    designated as a least developed beneficiary developing country under the
    GSP program because it has taken steps to improve worker rights and the
    protection of intellectual property. I have also determined, as a result
    of the 1995 Annual Review of petitions for changes that three products
    should be added to the GSP list of eligible products and that the
    competitive need limits on 22 products should be waived. As a result of
    a review of 1996 imports of GSP products, I have determined that de
    minimis limits on 79 products be waived and 11 products, whose imports
    no

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    longer exceed the program's competitive need limits, should be
    redesignated as GSP eligible. Finally as a result of certain provisions
    of the legislation enacted in August 1996 reauthorizing GSP, I am
    granting GSP eligibility to an additional 1,783 articles not previously
    included under GSP, provided that they are imported directly from the
    least developed beneficiary developing countries.
        This notice is submitted in accordance with the requirements of
    title V of the Trade Act of 1974.

                                                          William J. Clinton

    The White House,

    May 30, 1997.

    Note: The proclamation of May 30 modifying duty-free treatment under the
    Generalized System of Preferences is listed in Appendix D at the end of
    this volume.