[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.