[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 33 (Monday, August 22, 1994)]
[Pages 1679-1680]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6714--To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences

August 17, 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 Belarus and Uzbekistan as beneficiary 
developing countries for purposes of the Generalized System of 
Preferences (``GSP'').
    2. 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 (``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, 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 
``Belarus'' and ``Uzbekistan'' in alphabetical order in the enumeration 
of independent countries.
    (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders 
inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby 
superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    (3) 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imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn 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 seventeenth day 
of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and 
of the Independence of the

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United States of America the two hundred and nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:22 a.m., August 18, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August 
19.