[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 19 (Monday, May 13, 2002)]
[Page 743]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7553--To Restore Nondiscriminatory Trade Treatment (Normal 
Trade Relations Treatment) to the Products of Afghanistan

 May 3, 2002

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. Section 118(a)(1) of Public Law 99-190, 99 Stat. 1319, authorized 
the President to deny nondiscriminatory trade treatment to the products 
of Afghanistan and thereby cause such products to be subject to the rate 
of duty in column 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTS).
    2. Presidential Proclamation 5437 of January 31, 1986, modified the 
HTS so as to deny nondiscriminatory trade treatment to the products of 
Afghanistan.
    3. Restoration of nondiscriminatory trade treatment will support 
U.S. efforts to normalize relations with Afghanistan and facilitate 
increased trade with the United States, which could contribute to 
economic growth and assist Afghanistan in rebuilding its economy.
    4. Pursuant to section 118(c)(1) of Public Law 99-190, I have 
determined that it is appropriate to restore nondiscriminatory trade 
treatment to the products of Afghanistan and thereby cause such products 
to be subject to the applicable rate of duty in column 1 of the HTS.
     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, including section 118 of Public Law 
99-190, and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
2483), do hereby proclaim that:
    (1) Nondiscriminatory trade treatment (normal trade relations 
treatment) shall be restored to the products of Afghanistan;
    (2) General note 3(b) of the HTS is modified to exclude Afghanistan; 
and
    (3) The restoration of nondiscriminatory trade treatment and the 
modification to general note 3(b) of the HTS shall be effective with 
respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 
on or after the thirtieth day after the date of publication of this 
proclamation in the  Federal Register.
     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of 
May, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence 
of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., May 6, 2002]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on May 7. 
This item was not received in time for publication in the appropriate 
issue.