    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 117, 108th Congress, 1st Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    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

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    consumption, on or after a date to be announced in the Federal Register
    by the USTR.
    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.
    GEORGE W. BUSH

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