[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 47 (Monday, November 26, 2001)]
[Pages 1704-1705]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7505--To Modify the Tariff-Rate Quota Applicable to Imports 
of Steel Wire Rod

 November 21, 2001

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. On February 16, 2000, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253), President Clinton 
issued Proclamation 7273, which imposed a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on 
certain steel wire rod imports provided for in subheadings 7213.91, 
7213.99, 7227.20 and 7227.90.60 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTS) for a period of 3 years plus 1 day. Proclamation 
7273 did not allocate the in-quota quantity of the TRQ among supplier 
countries.
    2. Pursuant to section 203(g) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(g)), 
in order to provide for the efficient and fair administration of the 
TRQ, I have determined that the in-quota quantity of the TRQ should be 
allocated among supplier countries in the manner set forth in the Annex 
to this proclamation.
    3. 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, 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 but not limited to 
sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:

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    (1) In order to allocate the in-quota quantity of the TRQ on wire 
rod imports, subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as set 
forth in the Annex to 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superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    (3) Effective at the close of March 1, 2004, or such other date that 
is 1 year from the close of this relief, the U.S. note and tariff 
provisions established in the Annex of this proclamation shall be 
deleted from the HTS.
    (4) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation and the 
Annex hereto shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after the close of November 
23, 2001, and shall continue in effect through the close of March 1, 
2003, unless such actions are earlier expressly modified or terminated.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first 
day of November, 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., November 27, 
2001]

Note: This proclamation and the attached annex will be published in the 
Federal Register on November 28.