[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 12 (Monday, March 27, 1995)]
[Page 471]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6778--To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences

March 17, 1995

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 the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a 
beneficiary 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 nonindependent 
territories whose products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is 
modified by inserting ``West Bank and Gaza Strip'' in alphabetical order 
in the enumeration of nonindependent territories.
    (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superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.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 extension of the Generalized System of Preferences program 
to the West Bank and Gaza Strip pursuant to this proclamation applies 
only to goods produced in the areas for which arrangements are being 
established for Palestinian Interim Self-Government, as set forth in 
Articles I, III, and IV of the Declaration of Principles on Interim 
Self-Government Arrangements.
    (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imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn 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 seventeenth day 
of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:40 p.m., March 21, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on March 24, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
March 23.