[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 3CFR7505]

[Page 312-315]
 
Proclamation 7505 of November 21, 2001

To Modify the Tariff-Rate Quota Applicable to Imports of Steel Wire Rod

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

          1. On February 16, 2000, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade 
          Act of 1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253), 
          President Clinton issued Proclamation 7273, which imposed a 
          tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on certain steel wire rod imports 
          provided for in subheadings 7213.91, 7213.99, 7227.20 and 
          7227.90.60 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
          States (HTS) for a period of 3 years plus 1 day. Proclamation 
          7273 did not allocate the in-quota quantity of the TRQ among 
          supplier countries.
          2. Pursuant to section 203(g) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 
          2253(g)), in order to provide for the efficient and fair 
          administration of the TRQ, I have determined that the in-quota 
          quantity of the TRQ should be allocated among supplier 
          countries in the manner set forth in the Annex to this 
          proclamation.
          3. Section 604 of the Trade 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, 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 but not limited to sections 203 and 604 of the Trade 
          Act, do proclaim that:
          (1) In order to allocate the in-quota quantity of the TRQ on 
          wire rod imports, subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS is 
          modified as set forth in the Annex to this proclamation.
          (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          proclamation are superseded to the extent of such 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) Effective at the close of March 1, 2004, or such other 
          date that is 1 year from the close of this relief, the U.S. 
          note and tariff provisions established in the Annex of this 
          proclamation shall be deleted from the HTS.
          (4) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation and 
          the Annex hereto shall be effective with respect to goods 
          entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after 
          the close of November 23,

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          2001, and shall continue in effect through the close of March 
          1, 2003, unless such actions are earlier expressly modified or 
          terminated.
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-
          first day of November, 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

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