[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 27 (Monday, July 8, 2002)]
[Pages 1137-1138]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7576--To Provide for the Efficient and Fair Administration 
of Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products

 July 3, 2002

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. On March 5, 2002, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253), I issued 
Proclamation 7529, which imposed tariffs and a tariff-rate quota on 
certain steel products under subheadings 9903.72.30 through 9903.74.24 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) (the 
``safeguard measures'') for a period of 3 years plus 1 day.
    2. In clause (3) of Proclamation 7529, I excluded imports of certain 
steel that are the product of World Trade Organization (WTO) member 
developing countries, as provided in subdivision (d)(i) of U.S. Note 11 
to subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS (Note 11), from the safeguard 
measures.
    3. In clause (5) of Proclamation 7529, I authorized the United 
States Trade Representative (USTR), within 120 days after March 5, 2002, 
to further consider any request for exclusion of a particular product 
submitted in accordance with the procedures set out in 66 Fed. Reg. 
54321, 54322-54323 (October 26, 2001) and, upon publication in the 
Federal Register of a notice of his finding that a particular product 
should be excluded, to modify the HTS provisions created by the Annex to 
Proclamation 7529 to exclude such particular product from the pertinent 
safeguard measure.
    4. 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 
safeguard measures, I have determined that:
    (a) the USTR should have authority, as appropriate, to add WTO 
member developing countries to the list of countries in subdivision 
(d)(i) of Note 11;

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    (b) the period provided in clause (5) of Proclamation 7529 should be 
extended until August 31, 2002; and
    (c) requests for exclusion submitted in accordance with the 
procedures set out in 67 Fed. Reg. 19307, 19308 (April 18, 2002); 67 
Fed. Reg. 35842, 35842-35843 (May 21, 2002); 67 Fed. Reg. 38693, 38694 
(June 5, 2002) should be treated as having been submitted in accordance 
with the procedures set out in 66 Fed. Reg. 54321, 54322-54323 (October 
26, 2001).
    5. 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, continuation, 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, including but not limited to sections 203 
and 604 of the Trade Act, and section 301 of title 3, United States 
Code, do proclaim that:
    (1) The USTR is authorized, upon publication of a notice in the 
Federal Register of his determination that it is appropriate to add WTO 
member developing countries to the list of countries in subdivision 
(d)(i) of Note 11, to add such countries to that list.
    (2) Clause (5) of Proclamation 7529 is amended by deleting the words 
``Within 120 days after the date of this proclamation'' and adding in 
their place the words ``At any time on or before August 31, 2002''. Note 
11 is amended in subdivision (c), by deleting the date ``July 3, 2002'' 
and adding in its place the date ``August 31, 2002''.
    (3) The USTR is authorized to treat requests for exclusion submitted 
in accordance with the procedures set out in 67 Fed. Reg. 19307 (April 
18, 2002); 67 Fed. Reg. 35842 (May 21, 2002); or 67 Fed. Reg. 38693 
(June 5, 2002) as having been submitted in accordance with the 
procedures set out in 66 Fed. Reg. 54321, 54322-54323 (October 26, 
2001).
    (4) 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.
    (5) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation shall be 
effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. EST, on March 20, 2002, and shall 
continue in effect as provided in subchapter III of chapter 99 of the 
HTS, unless such actions are earlier expressly reduced, modified, or 
terminated. Effective at the close of March 21, 2006, or such other date 
that is 1 year from the close of the safeguard measures, the 
modifications to the HTS established in this proclamation shall be 
deleted from the HTS.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of 
July, 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.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:21 a.m., July 5, 
2002]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on July 4, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
July 8.