For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 19, 2001
To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Section 503(c)(2)(C) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the "1974 Act") (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(C)), provides that a country that is no longer treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to an eligible article for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) because imports of the article from that country exceeded the competitive need limitations in section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)) may be redesignated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to the article if imports of the article from that country did not exceed those limitations during the preceding calendar year.
2. Pursuant to section
503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act, I have determined that Indonesia should
be redesignated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to
certain eligible articles that previously had been imported in
quantities exceeding the competitive need limitations of section
503(c)(2)(A).
3. Section 604 of 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 the
relevant provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import
treatment, and actions thereunder, 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 of
America, including title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim
that:
(1) In order to provide that
Indonesia, which has not been treated as a beneficiary developing
country with respect to certain eligible articles, should be
redesignated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to those
articles for purposes of the GSP:
(a) general note 4(d) to the HTS is
modified as provided in paragraph (1) of the Annex to this
proclamation; and
(b) the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn
for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in paragraph (2) of the
Annex to this proclamation is modified as provided in such paragraph.
(2) 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actions taken in this proclamation are superseded to the extent of such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.
(3) The modifications made by
the Annex to this proclamation shall be effective with respect to
articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or
after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal
Register.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand this nineteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Annex
Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTS)
Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after the date of publication of this
proclamation in the Federal Register.
(1). General note 4(d) to the HTS is modified by:
(a). deleting the following subheadings and
Indonesia set out opposite such subheading:
1301.90.40 1605.90.55 4412.13.25
4602.10.23 9001.30.00
(b). deleting Indonesia set out opposite
the following subheadings:
1604.14.50 2603.00.00 3824.60.00
4412.14.30 4412.14.55 4412.92.50
(2). For the following subheadings, the Rates of Duty
1-Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol "A*" and
inserting an "A" in lieu thereof.
1301.90.40 1605.90.55 4412.13.25
4602.10.23 9001.30.00
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