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PROCLAMATION 5997—JULY 6, 1989 103 STAT. 3061 duty-free or excise treatment, and such additional duties, as the Presi- dent determines are necessary or appropriate to carry out Article 401 of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement (including the schedule of duty reductions with respect to goods originating in the ter- ritory of Canada set forth in Annexes 401.2 and 401.7). 4. Pursuant to section 201(a) of the Implementation Act, I have deter- mined that it is necessary to provide for the continued staged reduction in duties on certain tobacco for goods originating in the territory of Canada. 5. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the provisions of that Act, of other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereimder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, and section 201 of the Implementa- tion Act: (1) In order to withdraw the duty-free treatment afforded under the GSP to certain cigarette leaf tobacco and in order to reflect that a country should no longer be treated as ineligible for benefits of the GSP with respect to a previously eligible article, the HTS is modiHed as pro- vided in Annex I to this Proclamation. (2) In order to provide for the continued staged reductions on Canadian goods in particular HTS subheadings (as established in Annex I to this Proclamation), effective with respect to goods originating in the terri- tory of Canada which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consimiption, on or after the dates specified in Annex II to this Procla- mation, the rate of duty in the HTS set forth in the Rates of Duty 1- Special subcolimm followed by the symbol "CA" in parentheses for each of the HTS subheadings envunerated in such Annex II shall be de- leted and the rate of duty provided in such Annex inserted in lieu thereof. (3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders in- consistent with the provisions of this Proclamation are hereby super- seded to the extent of such inconsistency. (4) The amendments made by Annex I of this Proclamation shall be ef- fective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consimiption, on or after the date that is 2 days after the publication of this Procla- mation in the Federal Register. ^ ^. (5) The amendments made by Annex II of this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods originating in the territory of Canada which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consimiption, on or after the dates specified in such Annexes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and

  • EtUtoiial note: Published in the Federal Register of July 11, 1989.