[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 7 (Monday, February 21, 1994)]
[Pages 314-315]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6650--To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences and 
for Other Purposes

February 16, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. Pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended (``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2461 and 2462), and having due regard 
for the eligibility criteria set forth therein, I have determined that 
it is appropriate to designate Kazakhstan and Romania as beneficiary 
developing countries for purposes of the Generalized System of 
Preferences (``GSP'').
    2. Proclamation No. 6579 of July 4, 1993, implemented an accelerated 
schedule of duty elimination and modified the rules of origin under the 
United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement. Proclamation No. 6641 of 
December 15, 1993, implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement. 
Certain conforming changes and technical corrections to the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTS'') were omitted from these 
proclamations. I have decided that it is appropriate to modify the HTS 
to make such changes and corrections.
    3. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the 
President to embody in the HTS the substance of the provisions of that 
Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions 
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 of America, including but 
not limited to sections 501 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:
    (1) General note 4(a) to the HTS, listing those countries whose 
products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is modified by inserting 
``Kazakhstan'' and ``Romania'' in alphabetical order in the enumeration 
of independent countries.
    (2) In order to make conforming changes and technical corrections in 
certain HTS provisions, pursuant to actions taken in Proclamation No. 
6579 and Proclamation No. 6641, the HTS and Proclamation No. 6641 are 
modified as provided in the annex to this proclamation, effective as of 
the dates specified in such annex.
    (3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders 
inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby 
superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    (4) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph (1) of this 
proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles that are: (i) 
imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of 
publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day 
of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, 
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, 11:27 a.m., February 16, 
1994]

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Note: This proclamation and its annex were published in the Federal 
Register on February 17.