    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 32 (Monday, August 16, 1993)]
    [Pages 1608-1609]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6585--To Designate Peru as a Beneficiary Country for
    Purposes of the Andean Trade Preference Act

     August 11, 1993

    By the President of the United States

    of America

    A Proclamation

        1. Sections 202 and 204 of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)
    (19 U.S.C. 3201 and 3203) confer authority upon the President to
    proclaim duty-free treatment for all eligible articles, and duty
    reductions for certain other articles, that are the product of any
    country designated as a ``beneficiary country'' in accordance with the
    provisions of section 203 of the ATPA (19 U.S.C. 3202). Pursuant to
    section 203(b)(2) of the ATPA (19 U.S.C. 3202(b)(2)), I have notified
    the House of Representatives and the Senate of my intention to designate
    Peru as a beneficiary country for purposes of the ATPA, together with
    the considerations entering into such decision. I hereby designate Peru
    as a beneficiary country under the ATPA, and in order to reflect this
    designation in the Har-

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    monized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), I have decided that
    it is necessary to modify general note 3(c)(ix) to the HTS.
        2. 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, 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.
        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 of America, including but
    not limited to section 203 of the ATPA and section 604 of the Trade Act
    of 1974, do proclaim that:
        (1) General note 3(c)(ix)(A) to the HTS is modified by inserting in
    alphabetical sequence ``Peru'', which is hereby designated as a
    beneficiary country under the ATPA.
        (2) The modifications made by paragraph (1) of this proclamation
    shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from
    warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day after the date of
    publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of
    August, 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, 3:35 p.m., August 12,
    1993]

    Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press
    Secretary on August 12, and it was published in the Federal Register on
    August 16.