[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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