12 2 STA T .5389PROCL A M AT I O N 8323 — NO V .25 , 2 0 08 INW I T N ES SW H E R E OF, I have he r e untos et my han d th i st w enty -f irst day of Novem b er, in the year of our L ord two thousand ei g ht, and of the Inde p enden c eof the U nited States of A merica the two hundred and thirty-third .G EORGE W. B USH Proclam a ti o n832 3o fN o ve m b er2 5, 2 0 08 ToPr o videf or Duty-F ree Tre a t m e n t U nder t h e E arned I m p ort Al lo w an c e Pro g ram , and for O ther Purpo s es BythePr e sid e n t of the U nited S t a tes of Am eri c a A Proc l amation 1 . Section 40 4of the D ominican Repub l ic- C entral America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act ( the ‘ ‘CAFTA-DR Act ’ ’ ) , as added by section 2 of P ublic Law 110 – 4 36 , 122 Stat. 4 97 6, provides for preferential tariff treatment of eligible apparel articles wholly assembled in an eligible country and imported directly from an eligible country, if such articles are accompanied by an earned import allowance certificate issued under a program established by the Sec- retary of Commerce. 2. Section 404(e)(1) of the CAFTA-DR Act, as amended, provides that the program providing this preferential treatment shall be in effect for the 10-year period beginning on the date on which the President cer- tifies to the appropriate congressional committees that sections A, B, C,andDoftheAnne x to Presidential Proclamation 8 213 of December 20, 2007, have ta k en effect. 3. On August 7, 2008, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a notice in the F ederal R e g ister (73 FR 460 5 7) announcing that August 15, 2008, would be the effective date for sections A, B, C, and D of the Annex to Presidential Proclamation 8213. 4. I have determined, and hereby certify, that the provisions of Procla- mation 8213 referenced in section 404(e)(1) of the CAFTA-DR Act, as amended, have taken effect. 5. Section 6002 of the Africa Investment Incentive Act of 2006 (divi- sion D, title V I of Public Law 109–432) (the ‘‘2006 Act’’) amended sec- tion 112(c) of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) (19 U.S.C. 3721(c)) to modify the preferential tariff treatment accorded to designated lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries. 6. Pursuant to section 6002 of the 2006 Act, in Proclamation 8114 of M arch 19, 2007, I proclaimed modifications to the Harmoni z ed Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) to provide the tariff treatment au- thorized by the 2006 Act. The HTS provisions proclaimed in Proclama- tion 8114 were modified by Proclamation 8157 of J une 28, 2007, and Proclamation 8240 of April 17, 2008, to provide the tariff treatment au- thorized by the 2006 Act. 7. Section 3 of Public Law 110–436 amends section 112(c) of the AGOA to modify the tariff treatment applicable to lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, and to provide that Mauri-
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