[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 14 (Monday, April 10, 2006)]
[Pages 627-628]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7995--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade 
Relations Treatment) to the Products of Ukraine, and For Other Purposes

 March 31, 2006

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. Ukraine 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 2(a) of Public Law 109-205, 120 Stat. 313 (19 
U.S.C. 2434), and having due regard for the findings of the Congress in 
section 1(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 Ukraine.
    3. Section 2103(a) of the Trade Act of 2002, 19 U.S.C. 3803(a), 
authorizes the President, under certain circumstances, to proclaim such 
modification of any existing duty as the President determines to be 
required or appropriate to carry out an agreement entered into in 
accordance with section 2103(a). The United States, a major producer and 
exporter of multi-chip integrated circuits, applies duties to imports of 
multi-chip integrated circuits of less than 5 percent ad valorem. On 
January 17, 2006, the United States entered into an agreement to cut to 
zero applied duties on certain multi-chip integrated circuits.
    4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, 
authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
(HTS) 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 of America, including but not limited 
to section 2(a) of Public Law 109-205, section 2103(a) of the Trade Act 
of 2002, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
    (1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) 
shall be extended to the products of Ukraine, which shall no longer be 
subject to chapter 1 of title IV of the 1974 Act.
    (2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of 
Ukraine shall be effective as of the date of signature of this 
proclamation.
    (3) In order to implement the agreement on multi-chip integrated 
circuits, the HTS is modified to provide for application of zero duties 
to goods entered under tariff item 8543.89.96.
    (4) The modification to the HTS made pursuant to paragraph 3 of this 
proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after April 1, 2006.
    (5) 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 thirty-first 
day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
thirtieth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:06 a.m., April 3, 
2006]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
4. This item was not

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received in time for publication in the appropriate issue.