[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 3CFR7585]
Proc. 7585
Proclamation 7585 of August 28, 2002
To Implement an Agreement Regarding Imports of Line Pipe Under Section 203
of the Trade Act of 1974
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On February 18, 2000, pursuant to section 203 of the Trade
Act of 1974, as amended (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2253),
the President issued Proclamation 7274, which imposed
additional duties on certain circular welded carbon quality
line pipe (line pipe) provided for in subheadings 7306.10.10
and 7306.10.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTS) (safeguard measure) for a period of 3 years plus
1 day, with the first 9000 short tons of imports that are the
product of each supplying country excluded from the increased
duty during each year, and with annual reductions in the rate
of duty in the second and third years.
2. Section 203(a)(3)(E) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C.
2253(a)(3)(E)) authorizes the President to negotiate,
conclude, and carry out agreements with foreign countries
limiting the export from foreign countries and the import into
the United States of an imported article with regard to which
the U.S. International Trade Commission has made an
affirmative finding regarding serious injury, or the threat
thereof. Section 203(f)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C.
2253(f)(1)) authorizes the President, if action under section
203 takes effect with regard to an imported article, to
negotiate agreements of the type described in subsection
(a)(3)(E) and, after such agreements take effect, suspend or
terminate, in whole or in part, any action previously taken.
3. The United States Trade Representative, pursuant to
sections 141(c)(1)(C) and 203(f)(1) of the Trade Act (19
U.S.C. 2171(c)(1)(C) and 2253(f)(1)), negotiated an agreement
with the Republic of Korea (Agreement) limiting the export
from Korea and import into the United States of line pipe
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the imposition of a tariff-rate quota, to take effect on
September 1, 2002. The agreement was signed on July 29, 2002.
4. Pursuant to sections 203(a)(3)(E) and 203(f) of the Trade
Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)(E) and 2253(f)), I am replacing the
additional duties and 9000 short ton exclusion applicable to
imports of line pipe from Korea with a tariff-rate quota, on a
quarterly basis, to take effect beginning on September 1,
2002.
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, 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, including
but not limited to sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act, do
proclaim that:
(1) In order to establish a tariff-rate quota to carry out the
Agreement, subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified
as provided in the Annex to this proclamation.
(2) Any provision of previous proclamations and Executive
Orders that is inconsistent with the actions taken in this
proclamation is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.
(3) 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. eastern
daylight time, on September 1, 2002, and shall continue in
effect as provided in subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTS,
unless such actions are earlier expressly modified or
terminated. Effective at the close of March 1, 2004, or such
other date that is 1 year from the close of the safeguard
measure, the modifications to the HTS established in this
proclamation and by Proclamation 7274 shall be deleted from
the HTS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-
eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand
two, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the two hundred and twenty-seventh.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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