[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 26 (Monday, July 5, 1999)]
[Pages 1248-1249]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7207--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade 
Relations Treatment) to Products of Mongolia and To Implement an 
Agreement To Eliminate Tariffs on Certain Pharmaceuticals and Chemical 
Intermediates

July 1, 1999

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. The United States has had in effect a bilateral Agreement on 
Trade Relations with Mongolia since 1991 and has provided normal trade 
relations treatment to the products of Mongolia since that time. I have 
found Mongolia to be in full compliance with the freedom of emigration 
requirements of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``Trade Act'') 
(19 U.S.C. 2432).
    2. Pursuant to section 2424(b)(1) of Public Law 106-36, and having 
due regard for the findings of the Congress in section 2424(a) of said 
Law, I hereby determine that title IV of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2431-
2441) should no longer apply to Mongolia.
    3. On November 13, 1998, members of the World Trade Organization 
(WTO), including the United States and 21 other major trading countries, 
announced in the WTO an agreement to eliminate tariffs on certain 
pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates that were the subject of 
reciprocal duty elimination negotiations during the Uruguay Round of 
Multilateral Trade Negotiations (the ``Uruguay Round''). A similar 
agreement between the United States and 16 other major trading countries 
eliminating tariffs on enumerated pharmaceuticals and chemical 
intermediates was implemented for the United States on April 1, 1997, by 
Proclamation 6982, adding such goods to the scope of the agreement on 
pharmaceutical products reached at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round 
and reflected in Schedule XX-United State of America, annexed to the 
Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1994) 
(Schedule XX).
    4. Section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) (19 
U.S.C. 3521(b)) authorizes the President to proclaim the modification of 
any duty or staged rate reduction of any duty set forth in Schedule XX 
for products that were the subject of reciprocal duty elimination 
negotiations during the Uruguay Round, if the United States agrees to 
such action in a multilateral negotiation under the auspices of the WTO, 
and after compliance with the consultation and layover requirements of 
section 115 of the URAA (19 U.S.C. 3524). Section 111(b) also authorizes 
the President to proclaim such modifications as are necessary to reflect 
such duty treatment in Schedule XX by means of rectifications thereof.
    5. On April 29, 1999, pursuant to section 115 of the URAA, the 
United States Trade Representative (USTR) submitted a report to the 
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Finance of the Senate (``the Committees'') that sets forth 
the proposed tariff eliminations, together with the advice received from 
the appropriate private sector advisory committee and the United States 
International Trade Commission regarding the proposed tariff 
eliminations. During the 60-day period thereafter, the USTR consulted 
with the Committees on the proposed actions.
    6. Section 604 of the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), 
authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States (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.
    7. Pursuant to section 111(b) of the URAA, I have determined that 
Schedule XX should be modified to reflect the implementation by

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the United States of the multilateral agreement on certain 
pharmaceuticals and chemical intermediates negotiated under the auspices 
of the WTO. In addition, I have determined that the pharmaceuticals 
appendix to the HTS should be modified to reflect the duty eliminations 
provided in such agreement, and to make certain minor technical 
corrections in the identification of particular products in order to 
ensure that products are accorded the intended duty treatment.
    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 section 2424(b)(2) of Public Law 106-36, section 111(b) of 
the URAA, and section 604 of the Trade Act, do hereby proclaim that:
    (1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) 
shall be extended to the products of Mongolia, which shall no longer be 
subject to title IV of the Trade Act.
    (2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of 
Mongolia shall be effective as of the date of signature of this 
proclamation.
    (3) In order to implement the multilateral agreement negotiated 
under the auspices of the WTO to eliminate tariffs on certain 
pharmaceutical products and chemical intermediates, and to make 
technical corrections in the tariff treatment accorded to such products, 
the HTS is modified as set forth in the Annex to this proclamation.
    (4) Such modifications to the HTS shall be effective with respect to 
articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the dates set forth in the Annex for the respective actions taken.
    (5) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders 
that are inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation are 
superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of 
July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
twenty-third.
                                          William J. Clinton  

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:02 a.m., July 2, 
1999]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on July 6.