[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 49 (Monday, December 10, 2001)]
[Pages 1765-1766]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7512--To Implement the Agreement Between the United States 
of America and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the Establishment of a 
Free Trade Area

 December 7, 2001

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. On October 24, 2000, the United States of America and the 
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan entered into an Agreement on the 
Establishment of a Free Trade Area (the ``JFTA'').
    2. Section 101 of the United States-Jordan Free Trade Area 
Implementation Act (the ``JFTA Act'') (Public Law 107-43, 115 Stat. 243) 
(19 U.S.C. 2112 Note) authorizes the President to proclaim such 
modifications or continuation of any duty, such continuation of duty-
free or excise treatment, or such additional duties, as the President 
determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out Article 2.1 of 
the JFTA and the schedule of duty reductions with respect to Jordan set 
out in Annex 2.1 of the JFTA.
    3. Section 102 of the JFTA Act provides certain rules for 
determining whether an article is wholly the growth, product, or 
manufacture of Jordan, or is a new or different article of commerce that 
has been grown, produced, or manufactured in Jordan and thus is eligible 
for the tariff and certain other treatment contemplated under the JFTA 
(``products of Jordan''). I have determined that it is necessary to 
include these rules of origin, together with particular rules applicable 
to certain other goods, in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTS).
    4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ``1974 
Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the HTS 
the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, of other Acts 
affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder.

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     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 sections 101 and 
102 of the JFTA Act and 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
    (1) In order to--
    (a) provide generally for the preferential tariff treatment being 
accorded under the JFTA and to set forth rules for determining whether 
goods imported into the customs territory of the United States are 
eligible for preferential treatment under the JFTA, and
    (b) provide tariff-rate quotas with respect to certain products of 
Jordan and to make technical and conforming changes in specified HTS 
provisions for purposes of the JFTA, the HTS is modified as set forth in 
Annex I to this proclamation.
    (2) In order to implement the initial stage of duty elimination 
provided for in the JFTA and to provide for future staged reductions in 
duties for products of Jordan for purposes of the JFTA, the HTS is 
modified as provided in Annex II to this proclamation, effective on the 
date specified in such Annex for each HTS provision and on any 
subsequent dates set forth for such provisions in Annex II columns.
    (3) All provisions of previous proclamations and Executive Orders 
that are inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation are 
hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    (4) (a) The amendments to the HTS made by paragraphs (1)(b) and (2) 
of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates 
indicated in Annexes I and II to this proclamation.
    (b) Except as provided in subparagraph (a), this proclamation shall 
be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
for consumption, on or after December 17, 2001.
     In Witness Whereof,  I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day 
of December, 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, 8:51 a.m., December 10, 
2001]

  Note:  This proclamation will be published in the  Federal Register  
on December 13.