To Implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect to Guatemala, and For Other Purposes, 38509-38510 [06-6064]

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 129 (Thursday, July 6, 2006)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 38509-38510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6064]



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Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 8034--To Implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-
United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect to Guatemala, and For 
Other Purposes


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 129 / Thursday, July 6, 2006 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 8034 of June 30, 2006

                
To Implement the Dominican Republic-Central 
                America-United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect 
                to Guatemala, and For Other Purposes

                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 (Agreement countries). 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. Consistent with section 201(a)(2) of the Act, each 
                Agreement country is to be removed from the enumeration 
                of designated beneficiary developing countries eligible 
                for the benefits of the Generalized System of 
                Preferences (GSP) on the date the Agreement enters into 
                force with respect to that country.

                4. Consistent with section 201(a)(3) of the Act, each 
                Agreement country is to be removed from the enumeration 
                of designated beneficiary countries under the Caribbean 
                Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) (19 U.S.C. 2701 et 
                seq.) on the date the Agreement enters into force with 
                respect to that country, subject to the exceptions set 
                out in section 201(a)(3)(B) of the Act.

                5. Consistent with section 213(b)(5)(D) of the CBERA, 
                as amended by the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade 
                Partnership Act (CBTPA) (Public Law 106-200), each 
                Agreement country is to be removed from the enumeration 
                of designated CBTPA beneficiary countries on the date 
                the Agreement enters into force with respect to that 
                country.

                6. 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 Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
                of the United States (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 and section 604 of the 1974 Act, 
                and the Act having taken effect pursuant to section 
                107(a), do proclaim that:

                    (1) In order to provide generally for the 
                preferential tariff treatment being accorded under the 
                Agreement to Guatemala, to provide certain other 
                treatment to originating goods for the purposes of the 
                Agreement, to provide

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                tariff-rate quotas with respect to certain goods, to 
                reflect the removal of Guatemala from the enumeration 
                of designated beneficiary developing countries for 
                purposes of the GSP, to reflect the removal of 
                Guatemala from the enumeration of designated 
                beneficiary countries for purposes of the CBERA and the 
                CBTPA, to implement statistical monitoring relating to 
                tariff provisions that the President previously 
                proclaimed to implement the Agreement, and to make 
                technical and conforming changes in the general notes 
                to the HTS, the HTS is modified as set forth in the 
                Annex of Publication 3861 of the United States 
                International Trade Commission, entitled 
                ``Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
                the United States to Implement the Dominican Republic-
                Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement With 
                Respect to Guatemala'' (Publication 3861), which is 
                incorporated by reference into this proclamation.
                    (2)(a) 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 relevant dates 
                indicated in the Annex to Publication 3861.
                    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (2)(a) of this 
                proclamation, this proclamation shall be effective with 
                respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
                for consumption, on or after July 1, 2006.
                    (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.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of June, 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

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