    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 21 (Monday, May 29, 1995)]
    [Pages 886-887]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6804--To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized
    System of Preferences and for Other Purposes

    May 22, 1995

    By the President of the United States

    of America

    A Proclamation

        1. Pursuant to section 504(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
    (``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)), beneficiary developing countries,
    except those designated as least-developed beneficiary developing
    countries pursuant to section 504(c)(6) of the Trade Act, are subject to
    limitations on the preferential treatment afforded under the Generalized
    System of Preferences (GSP). I have determined, pursuant to sections
    504(a)(1), (c)(1), and (c)(2) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1),
    (c)(1), and (c)(2)), that certain beneficiary developing countries
    should no longer receive preferential tariff treatment under the GSP
    with respect to certain eligible articles.
        2. To reflect clearly the names of certain beneficiary developing
    countries under the GSP, I have decided that it is necessary and
    appropriate to modify general note 4 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule
    of the United States (HTS).
        3. In Proclamation No. 6767 of February 3, 1995, conforming changes
    with respect to certain articles under the GSP were omitted. I have
    decided that it is necessary and appropriate to modify the HTS to make
    such conforming changes.
        4. Proclamation No. 6763 of December 23, 1994, implemented the
    Uruguay Round Agreements, including Schedule XX, with respect to the
    United States and incorporated in the HTS tariff modifications necessary
    and appropriate to carry out the Uruguay Round Agreements. Certain
    technical errors, including inadvertent omissions, were made in that
    proclamation. I have determined that it is necessary to reflect
    accurately the intended tariff treatment provided for in the Uruguay
    Round Agreements to modify certain provi-

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    sions of the HTS as set forth in Annex III to this proclamation.
        5. Section 604 of the Trade Act (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, including but not
    limited to sections 504 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:
        (1)(a) To make certain conforming changes, the Rates of Duty 1-
    Special subcolumn for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex
    I(A) to this proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting the symbol ``A*''
    in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting the symbol ``A'' in lieu thereof.
        (b) To provide that one or more countries should no longer be
    treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to an eligible
    article for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn
    for each of the HTS provisions enumerated in Annex I(B) to this
    proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting the symbol ``A'' in
    parentheses, and (ii) by inserting the symbol ``A*'' in lieu thereof.
        (2) To reflect clearly the names of certain beneficiaries and to
    provide that one or more countries are no longer to be treated as
    beneficiary developing countries with respect to an eligible article for
    purposes of the GSP, general note 4 to the HTS is modified as provided
    in Annex II to this proclamation.
        (3) The HTS is modified as provided in Annex III to this
    proclamation.
        (4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders
    inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby
    superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
        (5)(a) The modifications made by Annexes I and II to this
    proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i)
    imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn
    from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 1995.
        (b) The modifications made by Annex III to this proclamation shall
    be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from
    warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates specified in such
    annex.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second
    day of May, 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, 3 p.m., May 23, 1995]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on May 25.