Federal Register: February 24, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 37)
DOCID: FR Doc 06-1798
Presidential Documents
Presidential Documents
NOTICE: PROCLAMATIONS
ACTION: Trade:
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7981 of February 22, 2006
To Modify Duty Free Treatment Under the
Generalized System of Preferences
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Section 502 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2462), authorizes the
President to designate countries as beneficiary
developing countries, and to designate any beneficiary
developing country as a least-developed beneficiary
developing country, for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.
2. Pursuant to section 502 of the 1974 Act, and taking
into account the factors set forth in section 502(c)
(19 U.S.C. 2462(c)), I have determined that the
suspension pursuant to Proclamation 6123 of April 26,
1990, of preferential treatment for Liberia as a
beneficiary developing country under the GSP should be ended.
3. Pursuant to section 502 of the 1974 Act, and having
considered the factors set forth in sections 501 (19
U.S.C. 2461) and 502(c), I have also determined that
Liberia should be designated as a least-developed
beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP.
4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), as
amended, authorizes the President to embody in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States
the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or
other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, acting under the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, including title V and section
604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461-67, 2483), do proclaim that:
(1) In order to reflect in the HTS the restoration
of preferential treatment for Liberia as a beneficiary
developing country under the GSP, general note 4(a) is
modified by adding in alphabetical order ``Liberia'' to
the list entitled ``Independent Countries.''
(2) In order to reflect in the HTS the designation
of Liberia as a least-developed beneficiary developing
country under the GSP, general note 4(b)(i) is modified
by adding in alphabetical order ``Liberia.''
(3) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph
1 of this proclamation shall be effective with respect
to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of this proclamation.
(4) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraph
2 of this proclamation shall be effective with respect
to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after 60 days after the date of this proclamation.
(5) 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord
two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
(Presidential Sig.)B
[FR Doc. 06-1798
Filed 2-23-06; 8:45 am]
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