[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shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from 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.