[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 118, 108th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

Proclamation 7826 of October 4, 2004


 
To Implement the 2004 United States-Israel Agreement on Trade in
Agricultural Products


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. On April 22, 1985, the United States entered into the Agreement on
the Establishment of a Free Trade Area between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of Israel (the ``FTA'';),
which the Congress approved in the United States-Israel Free Trade Area
Implementation Act of 1985 (the ``FTA Act'';) (19 U.S.C. 2112 Note).
2. In order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually
advantageous concessions with respect to agricultural trade with Israel,
on July 27, 2004, the Government of the United States entered into an
agreement with the Government of Israel concerning certain aspects of
trade in agricultural products during the period January 1, 2004,
through December 31, 2008 (the ``2004 Agreement'';). The 2004 Agreement
reflects an effort by the United States and Israel to address, through
2008, their continuing differences over the meaning of certain

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provisions in the FTA governing access for United States agricultural
products to Israel's market.
3. Section 4(b) of the FTA Act provides that, whenever the President
determines that it is necessary to maintain the general level of
reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel
provided for by the FTA, the President may proclaim such withdrawal,
suspension, modification, or continuance of any duty, or such
continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or such
additional duties as the President determines to be required or
appropriate to carry out the FTA.
4. Pursuant to section 4(b) of the FTA Act, I have determined that it is
necessary, in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and
mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel, to provide
through the close of December 31, 2008, access into the United States
customs territory for specified quantities of certain agricultural
products of Israel free of duty or certain fees or other import charges.
5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2483) (the ``Trade
Act'';) authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of the relevant
provisions of that 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, 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 4 of the FTA Act and
section 604 of the Trade Act, do hereby proclaim:
(1) In order to implement aspects of the 2004 Agreement with the
Government of Israel, concerning certain aspects of trade in
agricultural products, 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 to the HTS made by the Annex to this
proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods that are the
product of Israel and are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after January 1, 2004, and the tariff treatment set
forth therein shall be effective as provided in such Annex through
December 31, 2008.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of
October, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
ninth.
GEORGE W. BUSH


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PROCLAMATION 7827--OCT. 6, 2004

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