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105 STAT. 2766 PROCLAMATION 6389—DEC. 5, 1991 Proclamation 6389 of December 5, 1991 To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Pursuant to section 504(a)(l] of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the 1974 Act) (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1)), and having considered the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c] of the 1974 Act, I have determined that it is appropriate to suspend the application of duty-free treatment accorded to articles of Yugoslavia under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). 2. Section 604 of 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 the provisions of that Act, and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and actions 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 laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that: (1) General note 3(c)(ii)(A) to the HTS, listing those countries whose products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is modified by deleting "Yugoslavia" in the enumeration of independent countries. (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency. (3) The amendment made by this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hiuidred and sixteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 6390 of December 9, 1991 Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Hwnan Rights Week, 1991 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation When the Federal Convention ended in September 1787 and our Constitution was presented to the States for ratification, it was hailed by