[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 2 (Monday, January 17, 2005)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7860--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Trade Treatment (Normal 
Trade Relations Treatment) to the Products of Armenia

 January 7, 2005

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. Since declaring its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, 
Armenia has made considerable progress in enacting market reforms and on 
February 5, 2003, Armenia acceded to the World Trade Organization (WTO). 
The extension of unconditional normal trade relations treatment to the 
products of Armenia will permit the United States to avail itself of all 
rights under the WTO with respect to Armenia. Armenia has demonstrated a 
strong desire to build a friendly and cooperative relationship with the 
United States and has been found to be in full compliance with the 
freedom of emigration requirements under title IV of the Trade Act of 
1974 (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.).
    2. Pursuant to section 2001(b) of Public Law 108-429, 118 Stat. 
2588, and having due regard for the findings of the Congress in section 
2001(a) of said law, I hereby determine that chapter 1 of title IV of 
the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2431-2439) should no longer apply to Armenia.
    3. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, 
authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or 
other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder.
    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 section 
2001(b) of Public Law 108-429, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do 
proclaim that:
    (1) Nondiscriminatory trade treatment (normal trade relations 
treatment) shall be extended to the products of Armenia, which shall no 
longer be subject to chapter 1 of title IV of the 1974 Act.
    (2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to products of 
Armenia shall be effective as of the date of signature of this 
proclamation.
    (3) All 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.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of 
January, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
ninth.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:02 a.m., January 11, 
2005]

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