[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 120, 109th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
PROCLAMATION 8067--OCT. 11, 2006
Proclamation 8067 of October 11, 2006
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 (Public Law 103-182) (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 (19 U.S.C. 3332) 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. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed to modifications to
certain NAFTA rules of origin. Modifications to the NAFTA rules of
origin reflected in general note 12 to the HTS are therefore necessary.
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, and 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.

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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 and
section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, do hereby proclaim:
(1) In order to reflect in the HTS modifications to the rules of origin
under the NAFTA, general note 12 to the HTS is modified as provided in
the Annex to this proclamation.
(2) The modifications made by this proclamation shall be effective with
respect to goods of Canada or of Mexico, under the terms of general note
12 to the HTS, that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after July 1, 2006.
(3) 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.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of
October, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
first.
GEORGE W. BUSH

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