Proclamations Proc. 7912 25. Section 2 of Executive Order 13191 of January 17, 2001, de]egated the President's authority under section ll2(b)(6) of the AGOA to the Com- mittee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (Committee), in con- sultation with the then-Commissioner, United States Customs Service, now the Commissioner, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (Commis- sioner), to determine which, if any, particular textile and apparel goods of beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries shall be treated as being hand loomed, handmade, or folklore articles. Executive Order 13191 further or- dered the Commissioner to take actions directed by the Committee to carry out such determinations. 26. In order to implement section 7(c) of the AGOA Acceleration Act, it is necessary to modify Executive Order 27. Section 604 of the 1974 Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the relevant provi- sions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposi- tion 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 title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, section 1558 of the Miscellaneous Trade Act, section 7(c) of the AGOA Acceleration Act, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, do hereby proclaim: (1) In order to reflect in the HTS the addition of Serbia and Montenegro as a beneficiary developing country under the GSP, general note 4(a) to the HTS is modified as provided in section A(1) of Annex I to this proclama- tion. (2) In order to provide that one or more countries that have not been treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to one or more eli- gible articles should be designated or redesignated as beneficiary devel- oping countries with respect to such article or articles for purposes of the GSP, in order to terminate the suspensions of India's and Pakistan's eligi- bility for certain articles, and in order to provide that one or more countries should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing countries with re- spect to one or more eligible articles for purposes of the GSP, general note 4(d) to the HTS is modified as provided in section A(2) of Annex I to this proclamation. (3) In order to designate certain articles as eligible articles for purposes of the GSP, the HTS is modified by amending and subdividing the nomen- clature of certain existing HTS subheadings as provided in section B of Annex I to this proclamation. (4) (a) In order to designate certain articles as eligible articles for pur- poses of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for such HTS sub- headings is modified as provided in sections C(1) and C(2) of Annex I to this proclamation. (b) In order to designate certain articles as eligible articles for purposes of the GSP when imported from any beneficiary developing country ex- cept for a country or countries exceeding the applicable competitive need limitation in 2004, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for such 71
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