[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 121, 110th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

121 STAT. 2789
 
PROCLAMATION 8180--SEPT. 28, 2007



Proclamation 8180 of September 28, 2007
To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of Mexico Under the
North American Free Trade Agreement
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, Mexico, and the
United States of America entered into the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA). The NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section
101(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
(Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA Implementation Act'';) (19 U.S.C.
3311(a)) and was implemented with respect to the United States by
Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993.
2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3331(b))
authorizes the President, subject to the consultation and layover
requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19
U.S.C. 3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules of duty elimination
that the United States may agree to with Mexico or Canada. Consistent
with Article 302(3) of the NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered
representative, have entered into an agreement with the Government of
Mexico providing for an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for
specific goods of Mexico. The consultation and layover requirements of
section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act with respect to such
schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied.
3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act, I have
determined that the modifications herein proclaimed of duties on goods
originating in the territory of Mexico are necessary or appropriate to
maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous
concessions with respect to Mexico provided for by the NAFTA, and to
carry out the agreement with Mexico providing an accelerated schedule of
duty elimination for specific goods.
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 Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of relevant
provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import treatment, and
actions taken thereunder.
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 of America, including but not limited to
section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and section 604 of the
1974 Act, do proclaim that:
(1) In order to provide an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for
specific goods of Mexico under the terms of general note 12 to the HTS,
the tariff treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided in the
Annex to this proclamation.
(2) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to this proclamation
shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after October 1, 2007.

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(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 twenty-eighth day
of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
second.
GEORGE W. BUSH

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