    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 12 (Monday, March 26, 2007)]
    [Pages 354-355]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 8114--To Implement Modifications to the Caribbean Basin
    Economic Recovery Act and the African Growth and Opportunity Act and for
    Other Purposes

     March 19, 2007

     By the President of the United States

     of America

     A Proclamation

        1. Section 5002 of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through
    Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 (Division D, Title V of Public Law
    109-432)(the ``HOPE Act''), which amends the Caribbean Basin Economic
    Recovery Act (Title II of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, Public
    Law 106-200)(CBERA), provides that preferential tariff treatment may be
    provided to certain articles that are imported directly from Haiti into
    the customs territory of the United States, provided the President
    determines that Haiti meets the eligibility requirements of section
    213A(d) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a(d)), and Haiti is meeting
    the conditions regarding enforcement of circumvention set forth in
    section 213A(e) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a(e)(1)).
        2. Section 6002 of the Africa Investment Incentive Act of 2006
    (Division D, Title VI of Public Law 109-432) amends section 112 of the
    African Growth and Opportunity Act (Title I of the Trade and Development
    Act of 2000, Public Law 106-200)(AGOA) to modify the preferential tariff
    treatment accorded to designated lesser developed beneficiary sub-
    Saharan African countries.
        3. Pursuant to section 213A(d) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C.
    2703a(d)), I have determined that Haiti meets the eligibility
    requirements set forth in section 213A(d)(1).
        4. Pursuant to section 213A(e) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C.
    2703a(e)), I have determined that Haiti is meeting the conditions set
    forth therein.
        5. In order to implement the tariff treatment provided under section
    213A of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a), and section 112(b)(8) and
    112(c) of AGOA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 3721(b)(8) and (c)), it is
    necessary to modify the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
    (HTS).
        6. Title I, subtitles A and B of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act
    of 2006 (Public Law 109-432)(the ``Tax Relief Act'') suspended or
    reduced duties on certain articles that were identified under provisions
    of the HTS in effect on December 20, 2006. Presidential Proclamation
    8097 of December 27, 2006, modified the HTS to conform it to the
    International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and
    Coding System. Modifications to the HTS are necessary to reflect
    accurately the suspension or reduction of duties that were enacted in
    the Tax Relief Act.
        7. 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 relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts
    affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder, including
    the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of
    duty or other import restriction.
        8. I have determined that it is appropriate to authorize the
    Secretary of the Treasury to perform the functions specified in section
    213A(f) of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a(f)).
        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 section 604 of the
    1974 Act, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, do proclaim
    that:
        (1) In order to provide the tariff treatment provided for in section
    213A of CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a), the HTS is modified as
    provided in Annex I to this proclamation.
        (2) In order to implement the tariff treatment provided for in
    section 112(b)(8) and section 112(c) of AGOA, as amended (19 U.S.C.
    3721(b)(8) and (c)), the HTS is modified as provided in Annex II to this
    proclamation.
        (3) In order to provide the tariff treatment provided for in Title
    I, subtitles A and B of the Tax Relief Act, and to make technical

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    corrections to previously proclaimed provisions, the HTS is modified as
    provided in Annex III to this proclamation.
        (4) The modifications to the HTS set forth in the annexes to this
    proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or
    withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates set
    forth in the respective annex.
        (5) The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to perform
    the functions assigned to the President in section 213A(f) of CBERA, as
    amended (19 U.S.C. 2703a(f)).
        (6) 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 nineteenth day
    of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, 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, 8:45 a.m., March 21,
    2007]

    Note: This proclamation and its attached annex were released by the
    Office of the Press Secretary on March 20, and they were published in
    the Federal Register on March 22.