112 STAT. 3802
PROCLAMATION 7125—SEPT. 18, 1998
tion 604 of the Trade Act, and section 301 of title 3, United States
Code, do proclaim that:
(1) Subchapter VI of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as provided
in the Annex to this proclamation.
(2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders
that are inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation are superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
(3)(a) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation shall
be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the fifteenth day after the signing
of this proclamation.
(b) At the close of the effective period specified therefor in the
Annex, HTS subheadings 9906.98.02 and 9906.98.03 shall cease to
apply to imported articles, except that goods described in such subheadings that were shipped and in transit on a through bill of lading
on such specified date shall be eligible for the tariff treatment specified
therein as if entered on the last day of such effective period. At the
close of the day that is one year from the close of the effective period
specified in such HTS subheadings, U.S. note 28 to subchapter VI of
chapter 99, such subheadings and their immediately superior text beginning with the word "Apparel" shall all be deleted from the HTS.
(c) The United States Trade Representative is authorized, after obtaining advice from the appropriate advisory committees established
under section 135 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2155), to extend the ef-
fective period of the new tariff provisions for one additional year, upon
publication in the Federal Register of a notice modifying the new HTS
subheadings accordingly.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereimto set my hand this eighteenth
day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
Annex
Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse
for consumption, on or c^er the fifteenth day after the President signs
this Proclamation, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
("HTS") is modified by inserting in numerical sequence in subchapter
VI of chapter 99 the following new U.S. note, tariff subheadings and
superior text, with language inserted in colujnns of the HTS headed
"Heading/Subheading", "Article Description", "Rates of Duty 1-Special", and "Effective Period", and with the new superior text inserted
at the same level of indentation as the article description in subheading 9906.73.02:
(U.S. Note:]
"28.
For purposes of subheadings 9906.98.02 and 9906.98.03, the term "interlining fabrics" refers to the following:
(a) A chest plate, "hymo" piece or "sleeve header" of woven or weftinserted warp knit construction, the foregoing of coarse animal hair or
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man-made filaments, of a type used in the manufacture of men's, boys',
women's or girls' tailored suit jackets and suit-type jackets:
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