    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 39 (Monday, October 1, 2007)]
    [Pages 1265-1266]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 8180--To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of
    Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

     September 28, 2007

     By the President of the United States

     of America

     A Proclamation

        1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, Mexico, and the
    United States of America entered into the North American Free Trade
    Agreement (NAFTA). The NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section
    101(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
    (Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA Implementation Act'') (19 U.S.C.
    3311(a)) and was implemented with respect to the United States by
    Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993.
        2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C.
    3331(b)) authorizes the President, subject to the consultation and
    layover requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act
    (19 U.S.C. 3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules of duty
    elimination that the United States may agree to with Mexico or Canada.
    Consistent with Article 302(3) of the NAFTA, I, through my duly
    empowered representative, have entered into an agreement with the
    Government of Mexico providing for an accelerated schedule of duty
    elimination for specific goods of Mexico. The consultation and layover
    requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act with
    respect to such schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied.
        3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act, I
    have determined that the modifications herein proclaimed of duties on
    goods originating in the territory of Mexico are necessary or
    appropriate to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually
    advantageous concessions with respect to Mexico provided for by the
    NAFTA, and to carry out the agreement with Mexico providing an
    accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods.
        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
    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of
    relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import
    treatment, and 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 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and section 604 of the
    1974 Act, do proclaim that:
        (1) In order to provide an accelerated schedule of duty elimination
    for specific goods of Mexico under the terms of general note 12 to the
    HTS, the tariff treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided
    in the Annex to this proclamation.
        (2) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to this proclamation
    shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from
    warehouse for consumption, on or after October 1, 2007.
        (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 twenty-eighth
    day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
    second.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:47 a.m., October 1,
    2007]

    Note: This proclamation and its attached annex will be published in the
    Federal Register on October 2.

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