[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 35 (Monday, September 2, 2002)]
[Pages 1450-1451]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7585--To Implement an Agreement Regarding Imports of Line 
Pipe Under Section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974

August 28, 2002

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. On February 18, 2000, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253), the President 
issued Proclamation 7274, which imposed additional duties on certain 
circular welded carbon quality line pipe (line pipe) provided for in 
subheadings 7306.10.10 and 7306.10.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States (HTS) (safeguard measure) for a period of 3 years 
plus 1 day, with the first 9000 short tons of imports that are the 
product of each supplying country excluded from the increased duty 
during each year, and with annual reductions in the rate of duty in the 
second and third years.
    2. Section 203(a)(3)(E) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)(E)) 
authorizes the President to negotiate, conclude, and carry out 
agreements with foreign countries limiting the export from foreign 
countries and the import into the United States of an imported article 
with regard to which the U.S. International Trade Commission has made an 
affirmative finding regarding serious injury, or the threat thereof. 
Section 203(f)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(f)(1)) authorizes the 
President, if action under section 203 takes effect with regard to an 
imported article, to negotiate agreements of the type described in 
subsection (a)(3)(E) and, after such agreements take effect, suspend or 
terminate, in whole or in part, any action previously taken.
    3. The United States Trade Representative, pursuant to sections 
141(c)(1)(C) and 203(f)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2171(c)(1)(C) and 
2253(f)(1)), negotiated an agreement with the Republic of Korea 
(Agreement) limiting the export from Korea and import into the United 
States of line pipe through the imposition of a tariff-rate quota, to 
take effect on September 1, 2002. The agreement was signed on July 29, 
2002.
    4. Pursuant to sections 203(a)(3)(E) and 203(f) of the Trade Act (19 
U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)(E) and 2253(f)), I am replacing the additional duties 
and 9000 short ton exclusion applicable to imports of line pipe from 
Korea with a tariff-rate quota, on a quarterly basis, to take effect 
beginning on September 1, 2002.
    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, 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, including but not limited to sections

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203 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:
    (1) In order to establish a tariff-rate quota to carry out the 
Agreement, subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as 
provided in the Annex to this proclamation.
    (2) Any provision of previous proclamations and Executive Orders 
that is inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation is 
superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.
    (3) 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. eastern daylight time, on September 
1, 2002, and shall continue in effect as provided in subchapter III of 
chapter 99 of the HTS, unless such actions are earlier expressly 
modified or terminated. Effective at the close of March 1, 2004, or such 
other date that is 1 year from the close of the safeguard measure, the 
modifications to the HTS established in this proclamation and by 
Proclamation 7274 shall be deleted from the HTS.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth 
day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
seventh.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:34 a.m., August 29, 
2002]

Note: This proclamation and its annex were published in the Federal 
Register on August 30.