To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, 56171-56173 [07-4905]

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 2, 2007)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 56171-56173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-4905]



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Part V





The President





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Proclamation 8180--To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of 
Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement



Executive Order 13446--Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory 
Committees and Amendments to and Revocation of Other Executive Orders



Executive Order 13447--Further 2007 Amendments to the Manual for 
Courts-Martial, United States


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 190 / Tuesday, October 2, 2007 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 8180 of September 28, 2007

                
To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods 
                of Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada, 
                Mexico, and the United States of America entered into 
                the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The 
                NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section 101(a) of 
                the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation 
                Act (Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA Implementation 
                Act'') (19 U.S.C. 3311(a)) and was implemented with 
                respect to the United States by Presidential 
                Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993.

                2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 
                U.S.C. 3331(b)) authorizes the President, subject to 
                the consultation and layover requirements of section 
                103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 
                3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules of duty 
                elimination that the United States may agree to with 
                Mexico or Canada. Consistent with Article 302(3) of the 
                NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered representative, 
                have entered into an agreement with the Government of 
                Mexico providing for an accelerated schedule of duty 
                elimination for specific goods of Mexico. The 
                consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a) 
                of the NAFTA Implementation Act with respect to such 
                schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied.

                3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA 
                Implementation Act, I have determined that the 
                modifications herein proclaimed of duties on goods 
                originating in the territory of Mexico are necessary or 
                appropriate to maintain the general level of reciprocal 
                and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to 
                Mexico provided for by the NAFTA, and to carry out the 
                agreement with Mexico providing an accelerated schedule 
                of duty elimination for specific goods.

                4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended 
                (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), 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 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(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and 
                section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:

                (1) In order to provide an accelerated schedule of duty 
                elimination for specific goods of Mexico under the 
                terms of general note 12 to the HTS, the tariff 
                treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided 
                in the Annex to this proclamation.

                (2) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to this 
                proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods 
                entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 
                on or after October 1, 2007.

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                (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 
                twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                second. 
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