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PUBLIC LAW 103-182—DEC. 8, 1993 107 STAT. 2091 "(i) the total amount of customs duties paid or owed on the merchandise on importation into the United States, or "(ii) the total amount of customs duties paid on the merchandise to the NAFTA country; "(3) without payment of duties for exportation to any foreign country other than to a NAFTA country or to Canada when exports to that country are subject to paragraph (4); "(4) without payment of duties for exportation to Canada (if that country ceases to be a NAFTA country and the suspension of the operation of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement thereafter terminates), but the exemption from the payment of duties under this paragraph applies only in the case of an exportation during the period such Agreement is in operation of^merchandise that— "(A) is only cleaned, sorted, or repacked in a bonded warehouse, or "(B) is a drawback eligible good under section 204(a) of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988; and "(5) without payment of duties for shipment to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island or the island of Guam."; and (B) in the third sentence by striking out "paragraph (1) of the preceding sentence" and inserting "paragraph (4) of the preceding sentence". (5) FOREIGN TRADE ZONES. — Section 3(a) of the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly knovm as the "Foreign Trade Zones Act"; 19 U.S.C. 81c(a)) is amended— (A) in the last proviso— (i) by inserting after That" the following: ", if Canada ceases to be a NAFTA country and the suspension of the operation of the United States-Canada Free- Trade Agreement thereafter terminates,"; and (ii) by striking out "on or after January 1, 1994, or such later date as may be proclaimed by the President under section 204(b)(2)(B) of such Act of 1988," and inserting "during the period such Agreement is in operation"; and (B) by inserting before such lastproviso the following new proviso: "; Provided, further. That no merchandise that consists of goods subject to NAFTA drawback, as defined in section 203(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, that is manufactured or otirierwise changed in condition shall be exported to a NAFTA country, as defined in section 2(4) of that Act, without an asseissment of a duty on the merchandise in its condition and quantity, and at its weight, at the time of its exportation (or if the privilege in the first proviso to this subsection was requested, an assessment of a duty on the merchandise in its condition and quantity, and at its weight, at the time of its admission into the zone) and the payment of the assessed duty before the 61st day after the date of exportation of the article, except that upon the presentation, before such 6l8t day, of satisfactory evidence of the amount of any customs duties paid or owed to the NAFTA country on the article, the customs