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123STA T . 3 605PROCL A M AT I O N8 3 4 1 —J AN. 16 , 200 9(the‘ ‘ CAFT A -DR A c t ’ ’ ) ( Publi c Law109–53, 119 S tat .467 ) (19 U .S.C. 4031), the d ut y t r eat m e n t nece s sary t o carry out or a p ply Articles 3.3 and 3. 2 7, and Anne x es 3.3 (includin g the schedule o f United States duty reductions with respect to originating goods) and 3.27, of the CAFTA-DR. I ha v e determined that technical corrections to the H TS are necessary to provide the intended duty treatment under the CAFTA-DR. 14. Section 604 of the 1974 Act, as amended, authori z es the President to embody in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or other Acts affecting import treatment, and of actions ta k en there- under, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction. NOW ,TH E REFORE, I, G EORGE 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 604 of the 1974 Act

sections 105(a), 201, 203, 20 8 , and subtitle B of title III of the Implementation Act; and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and having made the determination under section 101(b) of the Implementation Act necessary for the ex- change of notes, do hereby proclaim

(1) In order to provide generally for the preferential tariff treatment being accorded under the Agree- ment, to set forth rules for determining whether goods imported into the customs territory of the United States are eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the Agreement, to provide certain other treat- ment to originating goods of Peru for the purposes of the Agreement, to provide tariff-rate q uotas with respect to certain originating goods of Peru, to reflect Peru’s removal from the enumeration of designated ben- eficiary developing countries for purposes of the GSP, and to make technical and conforming changes in the general notes to the HTS, the HTS is modified as set forth in Annex I of Publication 4058 of the United States International Trade Commission, entitled, ‘‘ M odifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to Implement the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement’’, which is incor- porated by reference into this proclamation. (2) In order to implement the initial stage of duty elimination provided for in the Agreement and to provide for future staged reductions in du- ties for originating goods of Peru for purposes of the Agreement, the HTS is modified as provided in Annex II of Publication 4058, effective on the dates specified in the relevant sections of such publication and on any subsequent dates set forth for such duty reductions in that pub- lication. (3) The amendments to the HTS made by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or with- drawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the relevant dates indicated in Annex II to Publication 4058. (4) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to exercise my authority under section 105(a) of the Implementation Act to establish or des- ignate an office within the Department of Commerce to carry out the functions set forth in that section. (5) The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is authorized to ex- ercise my authority under section 201(d) of the Implementation Act to take such action as may be necessary in implementing the tariff-rate quotas set forth in Appendix I to the Schedule of the United States to