[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 3CFR7576]
Proc. 7576
Proclamation 7576 of July 3, 2002
To Provide for the Efficient and Fair Administration of Safeguard Measures
on Imports of Certain Steel Products
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On March 5, 2002, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act
of 1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253), I
issued Proclamation 7529,
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which imposed tariffs and a tariff-rate quota on certain steel
products under subheadings 9903.72.30 through 9903.74.24 of
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) (the
``safeguard measures'') for a period of 3 years plus 1 day.
2. In clause (3) of Proclamation 7529, I excluded imports of
certain steel that are the product of World Trade Organization
(WTO) member developing countries, as provided in subdivision
(d)(i) of U.S. Note 11 to subchapter III of chapter 99 of the
HTS (Note 11), from the safeguard measures.
3. In clause (5) of Proclamation 7529, I authorized the United
States Trade Representative (USTR), within 120 days after
March 5, 2002, to further consider any request for exclusion
of a particular product submitted in accordance with the
procedures set out in 66 Fed. Reg. 54321, 54322-54323 (October
26, 2001) and, upon publication in the Federal
eister of a notice of his finding that a
particular product should be excluded, to modify the HTS
provisions created by the Annex to Proclamation 7529 to
exclude such particular product from the pertinent safeguard
measure.
4. 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 safeguard measures, I have determined
that:
(a) the USTR should have authority, as appropriate, to add WTO
member developing countries to the list of countries in
subdivision (d)(i) of Note 11;
(b) the period provided in clause (5) of Proclamation 7529
should be extended until August 31, 2002; and
(c) requests for exclusion submitted in accordance with the
procedures set out in 67 Fed. Reg. 19307, 19308 (April 18,
2002); 67 Fed. Reg. 35842, 35842-35843 (May 21, 2002); 67 Fed.
Reg. 38693, 38694 (June 5, 2002) should be treated as having
been submitted in accordance with the procedures set out in 66
Fed. Reg. 54321, 54322-54323 (October 26, 2001).
5. 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, continuation, 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, including
but not limited to sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act, and
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, do proclaim that:
(1) The USTR is authorized, upon publication of a notice in
the Federal eister of his determination that
it is appropriate to add WTO member developing countries to
the list of countries in subdivision (d)(i) of Note 11, to add
such countries to that list.
(2) Clause (5) of Proclamation 7529 is amended by deleting the
words ``Within 120 days after the date of this proclamation''
and adding in their place the words ``At any time on or before
August 31, 2002''. Note 11 is amended in subdivision (c), by
deleting the date ``July 3, 2002'' and adding in its place the
date ``August 31, 2002.''
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(3) The USTR is authorized to treat requests for exclusion
submitted in accordance with the procedures set out in 67 Fed.
Reg. 19307 (April 18, 2002); 67 Fed. Reg. 35842 (May 21,
2002); or 67 Fed. Reg. 38693 (June 5, 2002) as having been
submitted in accordance with the procedures set out in 66 Fed.
Reg. 54321, 54322-54323 (October 26, 2001).
(4) 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.
(5) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation
shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. EST, on
March 20, 2002, and shall continue in effect as provided in
subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS, unless such actions
are earlier expressly reduced, modified, or terminated.
Effective at the close of March 21, 2006, or such other date
that is 1 year from the close of the safeguard measures, the
modifications to the HTS established in this proclamation
shall be deleted from the HTS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day
of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred
and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH