[Federal Register: April 4, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 64)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Part IV
The President
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Proclamation 7995--To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade
Relations Treatment) to the Products of Ukraine, and For Other Purposes
Proclamation 7996--To Implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-
United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect to Honduras and
Nicaragua
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7995 of March 31, 2006
To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal
Trade Relations Treatment) to the Products of Ukraine,
and For Other Purposes
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Ukraine has demonstrated a strong desire to build a
friendly and cooperative relationship with the United
States and has been found to be in full compliance with
the freedom of emigration requirements under Title IV
of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C.
2431 et seq.).
2. Pursuant to section 2(a) of Public Law 109-205, 120
Stat. 313 (19 U.S.C. 2434), and having due regard for
the findings of the Congress in section 1(a) of said
law, I hereby determine that chapter 1 of title IV of
the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2431-2439) should no longer
apply to Ukraine.
3. Section 2103(a) of the Trade Act of 2002, 19 U.S.C.
3803(a), authorizes the President, under certain
circumstances, to proclaim such modification of any
existing duty as the President determines to be
required or appropriate to carry out an agreement
entered into in accordance with section 2103(a). The
United States, a major producer and exporter of multi-
chip integrated circuits, applies duties to imports of
multi-chip integrated circuits of less than 5 percent
ad valorem. On January 17, 2006, the United States
entered into an agreement to cut to zero applied duties
on certain multi-chip integrated circuits.
4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), as
amended, authorizes the President to embody in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States
the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or
other acts affecting import treatment, and of 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 2(a) of Public Law 109-205, section 2103(a) of
the Trade Act of 2002, and section 604 of the 1974 Act,
do proclaim that:
(1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade
relations treatment) shall be extended to the products
of Ukraine, which shall no longer be subject to chapter
1 of title IV of the 1974 Act.
(2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to
the products of Ukraine shall be effective as of the
date of signature of this proclamation.
(3) In order to implement the agreement on multi-
chip integrated circuits, the HTS is modified to
provide for application of zero duties to goods entered
under tariff item 8543.89.96.
(4) The modification to the HTS made pursuant to
paragraph 3 of this proclamation shall be effective
with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after April 1, 2006.
(5) All 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord two
thousand six, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
(Presidential Sig.)B
[FR Doc. 06-3298
Filed 4-3-06; 11:06 am]
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