[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 26 (Monday, July 5, 1993)]
[Pages 1223-1224]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6577--Agreement on Trade Relations Between the United 
States of America and Romania

 July 2, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 
and the laws of the United States of America, I, acting through duly 
empowered representatives, entered into negotiations with 
representatives of Romania to conclude an agreement on trade relations 
between the United States of America and Romania.
    2. These negotiations were conducted in accordance with the 
requirements of the Trade Act of 1974, Public Law 93-618, as amended (19 
U.S.C. 2101-2495) (the ``Trade Act'').
    3. As a result of these negotiations, an ``Agreement on Trade 
Relations Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Romania'' (``Agreement''), including exchanges of letters 
which form an integral part of the Agreement, the foregoing in English 
and Romanian, was signed on April 3, 1992, by duly empowered 
representatives of the two Governments and is set forth as an annex to 
this proclamation.
    4. This Agreement conforms to the requirements relating to bilateral 
commercial agreements set forth in section 405(b) of the Trade Act (19 
U.S.C. 2435(b)).
    5. Article XVI of the Agreement provides that the Agreement shall 
enter into force on the date of exchange of written notices of 
acceptance by the two Governments.
    6. Section 405(c) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2435(c)) provides that 
a bilateral commercial agreement providing nondiscriminatory treatment 
to the products of a country heretofore denied such treatment, and a 
proclamation implementing such agreement, shall take effect only if 
approved by the Congress under the provisions of that Act.
    7. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the 
President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States the substance of the provisions of that Act, of other acts 
affecting import treatment, and actions taken thereunder.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, 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 but not 
limited to sections 404, 405, and 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2434, 
2435, and 2483), do proclaim that:
    (1) This proclamation shall become effective, said Agreement shall 
enter into force, and nondiscriminatory treatment shall be extended to 
the products of Romania, in accordance with the terms of said Agreement, 
on the date of exchange of written notices of acceptance in accordance 
with Article XVI of said Agreement. The United States Trade 
Representative shall publish notice of the effective date in the Federal 
Register.
    (2) Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, into the customs territory of the United 
States on or after the date provided in paragraph (1) of this 
proclamation, general note 3(b) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States, enumerating those countries whose products are subject to 
duty at the rates set forth in rate of duty column 2 of the tariff 
schedule, is modified by striking out ``Romania''.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of 
July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of 
the Independence of the Unit- 

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ed States of America the two hundred and seventeenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:26 p.m., July 2, 1993]

Note: This proclamation and the attached agreement will be published in 
the Federal Register on July 7.