To Implement Certain Provisions of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect to El Salvador, 16009-16013 [06-3103]

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 60 (Wednesday, March 29, 2006)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 16009-16013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-3103]



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Part V





The President





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Proclamation 7991--To Implement Certain Provisions of the Dominican 
Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement With 
Respect to El Salvador


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 60 / Wednesday, March 29, 2006 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 7991 of March 24, 2006

                
To Implement Certain Provisions of the Dominican 
                Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade 
                Agreement With Respect to El Salvador

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On August 5, 2004, the United States entered into 
                the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States 
                Free Trade Agreement (Agreement) with Costa Rica, the 
                Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, 
                and Nicaragua. The Agreement was approved by the 
                Congress in section 101(a) of the Dominican Republic-
                Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement 
                Implementation Act (the ``Act'') (Public Law 109-53, 
                119 Stat. 462) (19 U.S.C. 4001 note).

                2. Section 201 of the Act authorizes the President to 
                proclaim such modifications or continuation of any 
                duty, such continuation of duty-free or excise 
                treatment, or such additional duties, as the President 
                determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out 
                or apply Article 3.3 and Annex 3.3 (including the 
                schedule of United States duty reductions with respect 
                to originating goods) of the Agreement.

                3. Presidential Proclamation 7987 of February 28, 2006, 
                modified the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
                States (HTS) to provide for the preferential tariff 
                treatment being accorded under the Agreement for 
                certain goods of El Salvador.

                4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``1974 
                Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, authorizes the 
                President to embody in the HTS 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 but not limited to 
                section 201 of the Act, section 301 of title 3, United 
                States Code, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do 
                proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide for the preferential tariff 
                treatment being accorded under the Agreement for 
                certain sugar and sugar-containing goods of El Salvador 
                and to provide a tariff-rate quota for such goods of El 
                Salvador, the HTS is modified as set forth in the Annex 
                to this proclamation.
                    (2) The amendments to the HTS made by paragraph (1) 
                of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to 
                goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
                consumption, on or after the date of this proclamation.
                    (3) 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-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand six, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.

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[FR Doc. 06-3103 Filed 3-28-06; 9:19 am]
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