Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 3.djvu/667

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PROCLAMATION 6517—DEC. 23, 1992 107 STAT. 2605 3. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested Ln me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to sections 501, 502(c), 504(a)(1), and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that: (1) General note 3(c)(ii)(A) to the HTS, listing those countries whose products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is modified by inserting "Ethiopia" in alphabetical order in the enmneration of independent countries. (2) In order to withdraw the duty-firee treatment accorded under the GSP to sulfanilic acid, the HTS is modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation. (3) For HTS subheadings 2921.42.26 and 2921.42.28, effective with respect to goods originating in the territory of Canada which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1993, in the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcoliunn of the HTS, the HTS is modified by deleting the symbol "(CA)" and the duty rate preceding it, and inserting in the parentheses following the "Free" rate the symbol "CA," in alphabetical order. (4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency. (5) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles that are: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consiunption, on or after 15 days after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereimto set my hand this twenty- third day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventeenth. GEORGE BUSH ANNEX The Harmonized Tariff Schedule ("HTS") is modified as provided below, with bracketed matter included to assist in the understanding of proclaimed modifications. The following supersedes matter in the HTS. The subheadings and superior text are set forth in columnar format, and material in such columns is inserted in the columns of the HTS designated "Heading/SuUieading", "Article Description", "Rates of Duty 1-General", "Rates of Duty 1-Special", and "Rates of Duty 2", respectively. Subheading 2921.42.24 is superseded by: [Amine-function compounds:] [Aromatic monoamines...:] [Aniline derivatives...:] " 2921.42.26 2921.42.28 Metanilic acid Sulfanilic acid 2.40/kg+ 18.8% 2.4«/kg+ 18.8% Free (A*,E,IL,J) 0.4e/kg-l - 3.7% (CA) Free (E,IL,J) O.40/kg+ 3.7% (CA) 15.4c/kg+ 60% 15.4«/kg+ 60%" Confonning change-. General note 3(c)(ii)(D) to the HTS is modified by deleting "2921.42.24 India" and inserting, in ntunerical sequence, "2921.42.26 India" in lieu thereof.