Other Presidential Documents Presidential Determination No. 2006-6 of December 22, 2005 Waiver of Conditions on Obligation and Expenditure of Funds for Planning, Design, and Construction of a Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility in Russia for Calendar Year 2006 Memorandum for the Secreta\177y of State Consistent with the authority vested in me by section 1303 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375) (the "Act"), I hereby certify that waiving the conditions described in section \177305 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (Pub- lic Law \17706-65), as amended, is important to the national security interests of the United States, and include herein, for submission to the Congress, the statement, justification, and plan described in section \177303 of the Act. This waiver shall apply for calendar year 2006. You are authorized and directed to transmit this certification, including the statement, justification, and plan, to the Congress and to arrange for the publication of this certification in the Federal Register. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, December 22, 2005. Presidential Determination No. 2006-7 of December 30, 2005 Presidential Determination on Imports of Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from the People's Republic of China Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce[,] the Secretary of LaborLand] the United States Trade Representative Pursuant to section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2451), I have determined the action I will take with respect to the affirma- tive determination of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) regarding imports of circular welded non-alloy steel pipe (steel pipe) from China (Investigation No. TA-421-6). After considering all rel- evant aspects of the investigation, I have determined that providing import relief for the U.S. steel pipe industry is not in the national economic inter- est of the United States. In particular, I find that the import relief would have an adverse impact on the United States economy clearly greater than the benefits of such action. The facts of this case indicate that any import relief, including either of the USITC's proposed remedies, is likely to be ineffective because of the extent to which imports from third countries would likely replace curtailed Chi- nese imports. A large number of third countries--the USITC documents more than 50 of them--supply the U.S. market with steel pipe. Although antidumping duties currently apply to imports from eight of those coun- tries, there are many other countries currently supplying steel pipe to the 283
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