[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 38 (Monday, September 24, 2001)]
[Pages 1344-1345]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7468--To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized 
System of Preferences

 September 19, 2001

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. Section 503(c)(2)(C) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the 
``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(C)), provides that a country that is 
no longer treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to an 
eligible article for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences 
(GSP) because imports of the article from that country exceeded the 
competitive need limitations in section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 
U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)) may be redesignated as a beneficiary developing 
country with respect to the article if imports of the article from that 
country did not exceed those limitations during the preceding calendar 
year.
    2. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act, I have 
determined that Indonesia should be redesignated as a beneficiary 
developing country with respect to certain eligible articles that 
previously had been imported in quantities exceeding the competitive 
need limitations of section 503(c)(2)(A).
    3. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the 
President to embody

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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, George W. Bush, 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 title V and section 
604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
    (1) In order to provide that Indonesia, which has not been treated 
as a beneficiary developing country with respect to certain eligible 
articles, should be redesignated as a beneficiary developing country 
with respect to those articles for purposes of the GSP:
    (a) general note 4(d) to the HTS is modified as provided in 
paragraph (1) of the Annex to this proclamation; and
    (b) the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each of the HTS 
subheadings enumerated in paragraph (2) of the Annex to this 
proclamation is modified as provided in such paragraph.
    (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.
    (3) The modifications made by the Annex to this proclamation shall 
be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after the date of publication of this 
proclamation in the Federal Register.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day 
of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
sixth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September 
21, 2001]

Note: This proclamation and the attached annex were published in the 
Federal Register on September 24.