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PROCLAMATION 5923—DEC. 14, 1988 103 STAT. 2675 1992—30% ad valorem 1993—25% ad valorem ^ 1994—20% ad valorem v' ^' 1995—^15% ad valorem 1996—^10% ad valorem , 1997—5% ad valorem 1998 and thereafter—Free (7) All previously issued Proclamations and Executive orders are super- seded to the extent inconsistent with this Proclamation. (8)(a] The amendments made by paragraph (5){b) of this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates indicated for the re- spective Annex coliunns. (b] Except as provided in paragraph (a), this Proclamation shall be ef- fective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1989, or, if the Agreement does not enter into force on January 1, 1989, on or after such later date as the Agreement enters into force. (c) If the date of entry into force is later than January 1, 1989, the United States Trade Representative shall publish notice of that later date in the Federal Register. All other references to January 1, 1989 in this Proclamation and its annexes shall then be deemed to be that later date of entry into force. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hun- dred and thirteenth. RONALD REAGAN ANNEX I ^,,., .../;.,,.,,_ MODIFICATIONS TO GENERAL NOTE 3(C) TO THE HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED STATES General note 3(c) to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is modified as set forth below: 1. Subdivision (iii)(A)(l) is modified by striking out everything after "article which" and by inserting in lieu thereof "originates in Canada, as defined in subdivision (c)(vii) of this note."; and subdivision (iii)(A)(2) is modified by inserting after "component" the phrase "originating in Canada, as defined in subdivision (c)(vii) of this note, and". 2. The following new subdivision (vii) is inserted in appropriate sequence " (vii) United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988. (A) Goods originating in the territory of Canada that are described in Aimex 401.2(B) of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement, entered into on January 2, 1988, are subject to duty as provided herein. Goods originating in the territory of Canada, as defined in subdivi- sion (c)(vii](B) of this note, that are imported into the customs territory of the United States and that are entered under a subheading for which a rate of duty appears in the "Special" subcolumn followed by the symbol "CA" in parentheses are eligible for the tariff treatment set forth in the "Special" subcolumn, in accordance with section 201 of the United States- Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988.