    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 35 (Monday, September 4, 2000)]
    [Page 1956]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 7335--To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized
    System of Preferences

    August 27, 2000

    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 (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2461 and 2462), the President is
    authorized to designate countries as beneficiary developing countries
    for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
        2. Pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the 1974 Act, and having due
    regard for the eligibility criteria set forth therein, I have determined
    that it is appropriate to designate Nigeria as a beneficiary developing
    country for purposes of the GSP.
        3. Section 604 of the 1974 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 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 of America, including but
    not limited to title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim
    that:
        (1) In order to reflect in the HTS the addition of Nigeria as a
    beneficiary country under the GSP, general note 4(a) to the HTS is
    modified by adding ``Nigeria'' to the list of independent countries,
    effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse
    for consumption, on or after the date of signature of this proclamation.
        (2) 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    superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.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 twenty-seventh
    day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
    fifth.
                                                William J. Clinton

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:04 p.m., August 29,
    2000]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August
    30.