[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 3CFR7586]
Proc. 7586
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Proclamation 7586 of August 28, 2002
To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences
for Argentina
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 may be
redesignated as a beneficiary developing country with respect
to such article if imports of such article from such country
did not exceed the competitive need limitations in section
503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)) during
the preceding calendar year.
2. Section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(2)(F)) provides that the President may disregard the
competitive need limitation provided in section
503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A)(i)(II)) with
respect to any eligible article from any beneficiary
developing country if the aggregate appraised value of the
imports of such article into the United States during the
preceding calendar year does not exceed an amount set forth in
section 503(c)(2)(F)(ii) (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(F)(ii)).
3. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act, I have
determined that Argentina 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).
4. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act, I have
determined that the competitive need limitation provided in
section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) should be waived with respect to
certain eligible articles from Argentina.
5. 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, including
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and title V and
section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
(1) In order to provide that Argentina, 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 section A of
the Annex to this proclamation.
(b) the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each of the HTS
subheadings enumerated in section B of the Annex to this proclamation is
modified as provided in such section.
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(2) A waiver of the application of section 503(c)(2)(A)
(i)(II) of the 1974 Act shall apply to the eligible articles
in the HTS subheadings and to the beneficiary developing
country listed in section C of the Annex to this proclamation.
(3) 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.
(4) 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 15th
day after the publication of this proclamation in the Federal
eister.
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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