[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 27 (Monday, July 12, 1993)]
[Pages 1259-1261]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6579--To Implement an Accelerated Tariff Schedule of Duty 
Elimination and To Modify Rules of Origin Under the United States-Canada 
Free-Trade Agreement

 July 4, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. On January 2, 1988, the President entered into the United States-
Canada Free-Trade Agreement (``the Agreement''). The Agreement and 
certain letters exchanged between the Governments of Canada and the 
United States were approved by the Con- 

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gress in section 101(a) of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement 
Implementation Act of 1988 (``Implementation Act''), Public Law 100-449. 
The Agreement entered into force on January 1, 1989.
    2. Section 201(b) of the Implementation Act grants the President, 
subject to the consultation and lay-over requirements of section 103(a) 
of the Implementation Act, the authority to proclaim such modifications 
as to which the United States and Canada may agree regarding the staging 
of any duty treatment set forth in Annexes 401.2 and 401.7 to the 
Agreement as the President determines to be necessary or appropriate to 
maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous 
concessions with respect to Canada provided for by the Agreement.
    3. Consistent with Article 401(5) of the Agreement, I, through my 
duly empowered representative, on June 30, 1993, entered into an 
agreement with the Government of Canada providing an accelerated 
schedule of duty elimination for specific goods of Annex 401.2 to the 
Agreement. The consultation and lay-over requirements of section 103(a) 
of the Implementation Act with respect to such schedule have been 
complied with.
    4. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the Implementation Act, I have 
determined that the modifications hereinafter proclaimed to existing 
duties on goods originating in the territory of Canada are necessary or 
appropriate to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually 
advantageous concessions with respect to Canada provided for by the 
Agreement and to carry out the agreement with Canada providing an 
accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods of Annex 
401.2 to the Agreement.
    5. Section 202(d)(1) of the Implementation Act authorizes the 
President to proclaim, as a part of the Harmonized Commodity Description 
and Coding System, implemented by the United States as the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTS''), the rules of origin set 
forth in Annex 301.2 of the Agreement. Section 202(d)(2) of the 
Implementation Act authorizes the President to proclaim, subject to the 
consultation and lay-over requirements of section 103(a) of the 
Implementation Act, such modifications to the rules as may from time to 
time be agreed to by the United States and Canada. I have decided, 
pursuant to an agreement entered into on June 30, 1993, between the 
United States and Canada, that certain modifications in the Agreement's 
rules of origin for particular goods of the HTS should be proclaimed as 
part of the HTS. The consultation and lay-over requirements of section 
103 of the Implementation Act with respect to such modifications have 
been complied with.
    6. Section 201(a) of the Implementation Act authorizes the President 
to proclaim such modifications to or continuance of existing duties, 
such continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or such 
additional duties as the President determines to be necessary or 
appropriate to carry out Article 401 of the Agreement and the schedule 
of duty reductions with respect to goods originating in the territory of 
Canada set forth in Annexes 401.2 and 401.7 to the Agreement.
    7. Proclamation 6515 of December 16, 1992, among other actions, 
provided for the continuation of previously proclaimed staged duty 
reductions on Canadian goods in the HTS provisions modified in Annex I 
to Proclamation 6515. An error was made concerning the staged reductions 
for HTS subheading 4421.90.95. Therefore, I have decided that it is 
necessary and appropriate to correct this error.
    8. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (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 removal, modification, 
continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import 
restriction.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, including but not limited to 
section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, and sections 201 and 202 of the 
Implementation Act, do proclaim that:
      (1) In order to provide for an accelerated schedule of duty 
elimination for specific goods of Annex 401.2 to the United States-
Canada Free-Trade Agreement and to modify the rules of origin for 
certain goods under

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the Agreement, the tariff treatment provided for in the HTS for certain 
goods originating in the territory of Canada and general note 3(c)(vii) 
to the HTS are modified as provided in sections A and B of the Annex to 
this proclamation.
      (2) In order to correct the continued staged duty reductions on 
Canadian goods provided for in HTS subheading 4421.90.95, the HTS is 
modified as set forth in section C of the Annex to this proclamation.
      (3) In order to implement accelerated elimination of the rate of 
duty otherwise applicable under section 466 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to 
the equipments, or any part thereof, including boats, originating in the 
territory of Canada and the expenses of repairs made in the territory of 
Canada upon U.S.-documented vessels (other than civil aircraft, as 
defined in general note 3(c)(iv) of the HTS), such equipments, parts 
(including boats), and expenses of repairs shall be subject to duty at a 
rate of free, effective with respect to any U.S.-documented vessel 
arriving in any port of the United States on or after the date specified 
in a notice by the United States Trade Representative and published in 
the Federal Register.
      (4) Any provisions of previous proclamations inconsistent with the 
provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of 
such inconsistency.
      (5) The modifications made by paragraph (1) of this proclamation 
shall be effective with respect to goods originating in the territory of 
Canada entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
the dates set forth in sections A and B of the Annex to this 
proclamation.
      (6) The modifications made by paragraph (2) of this proclamation 
shall be effective with respect to goods originating in the territory of 
Canada entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
the dates set forth in section C of the Annex to this proclamation.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of 
July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 5 p.m., July 6, 1993]

Note: This proclamation and its annex were published in the Federal 
Register on July 8.