[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 41 (Monday, October 16, 2006)]
[Pages 1800-1801]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 8067--To Modify Rules of Origin Under the North American 
Free Trade Agreement

 October 11, 2006

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993, implemented 
the North American Free Trade Agreement (the ``NAFTA'') with respect to 
the United States and, pursuant to the North American Free Trade 
Agreement Implementation Act (Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA 
Implementation Act''), incorporated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States (the ``HTS'') the tariff modifications and rules of 
origin necessary or appropriate to carry out the NAFTA.
    2. Section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3332) 
provides rules for determining whether goods imported into the United 
States originate in the territory of a NAFTA party and thus are eligible 
for the tariff and other treatment contemplated under the NAFTA. Section 
202(q) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3332(q)) authorizes 
the President to proclaim, as a part of the HTS, the rules of origin set 
out in the NAFTA and to proclaim modifications to such previously 
proclaimed rules of origin, subject to the consultation and layover 
requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 
U.S.C. 3313(a)).
    3. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed to 
modifications to certain NAFTA rules of origin. Modifications to the 
NAFTA rules of origin reflected in general note 12 to the HTS are 
therefore necessary.
    4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ``1974 
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,

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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 section 604 of the 1974 Act 
and section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, do hereby proclaim:
    (1) In order to reflect in the HTS modifications to the rules of 
origin under the NAFTA, general note 12 to the HTS is modified as 
provided in the Annex to this proclamation.
    (2) The modifications made by this proclamation shall be effective 
with respect to goods of Canada or of Mexico, under the terms of general 
note 12 to the HTS, that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after July 1, 2006.
    (3) 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.
     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day 
of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
first.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:46 a.m., October 12, 
2006]

Note: This proclamation and its annex were published in the Federal 
Register on October 13.