12 2 STA T .5 2 8 2 PROCL A M AT I O N 8228 — MAR. 28 , 2 0 08 6.OnAug u st5,20 0 4 ,t heU n i te dS t a tes ente r ed int o the D o m ini c an R e p u bl ic -C entral America-United States F ree T rade Agreement ( CAFTA-DR )w ith Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, E l Sal v ador, G uatemala, H onduras, and N icaragua. The Congress approved the CAFTA-DR in section 1 01(a) o f the Dominican Republic-Central Amer- ica-United States Free Trade Agreement I mplementation Act (the ‘ ‘CAFTA-DR Act ’ ’) (1 9 U.S.C. 4011). 7 . Sections 3 21 – 32 8 of the CAFTA-DR Act (19 U.S.C. 4081–4088) au- thori z e the P resident to ta k e certain actions in response to a re q uest b y an interested party for relief from serious damage or actual threat thereof to a domestic industry producing certain te x tile or apparel arti- cles. I assigned certain functions under these provisions to the Com- mittee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) in Procla- mation 7987 of February 28, 2006. 8. Executive Order 11651 of M arch 3, 1972, as amended, established CITA, consisting of representatives of the Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, and L abor, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the representative of the Department of Commerce as Chairman, to supervise the implementation of textile trade agreements. Consistent with 3 U.S.C. 301, when carrying out functions vested in the President by statute and assigned by the Presi- dent to CITA, the officials collectively exercising those functions are all to be officers required to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. 9. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (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 im- port treatment, and actions thereunder, including removal, modifica- tion, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import re- striction. NO W , THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. B USH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Con- stitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to section 1206 of the 1988 Act, sections 321–328 of the CAFTA-DR Act, section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and section 604 of the Trade Act do proclaim that
(1) In order to modify the HTS to conform it to the Convention or any amendment thereto recommended for adoption, to promote the uni- form application of the Convention, to establish additional subordinate tariff categories, and to make technical and conforming changes to ex- isting provisions, the HTS is modified as set forth in Annex I to this proclamation. (2) In order to provide the intended tariff treatment to imports of origi- nating goods from Chile, the HTS is modified as set out in section A of Annex II to this proclamation. (3) In order to provide the intended tariff treatment to imports of origi- nating goods from Singapore, the HTS is modified as set out in section B of Annex II to this proclamation. (4) The CITA is authorized to exercise my authority under sections 321–328 of the CAFTA-DR Act to provide relief from imports that are the sub j ect of a determination under section 322(a) of the CAFTA-DR
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