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PROCLAMATION 7107—JUNE 30, 1998 112 STAT. 3771 actions thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 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) In order to provide that one or more countries that have not been treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to one or more eligible articles should be designated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to such article or articles for purposes of the GSP, and that one or more countries should not be treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to one or more eligible articles for purposes of the GSP, general note 4 to the HTS is modified as provided in section A of Annex I and section A of Annex IV to this proclamation. (2) In order to designate certain articles, previously designated under section 503(a)(1)(B), as eligible articles from additional beneficiary developing countries, the HTS is modified by amending and subdividing the nomenclature of existing HTS subheadings as provided in section B of Annex I to this proclamation. (3)(a) In order to designate certain articles as eligible articles for purposes of the GSP when imported from any beneficiary developing country, the Rates of Duty 1—Special subcolumn for certain HTS subheadings is modified as provided in section C(l) of Annex I and section B of Annex IV to this proclamation. (b) In order to designate certain articles, previously designated under section 503(a)(1)(B), as eligible articles from additional beneficiary developing countries, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolmnn for the HTS subheadings enumerated in section C(2) of Annex I to this proclamation is modified as provided in such section. (c) In order to provide preferential tariff treatment under the GSP to beneficiary developing covmtries that have been excluded from the benefits of the GSP for certain eligible articles, the Rates of Duty 1- Special subcolumn for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in section C(3) of Annex I to this proclamation is modified as provided in such section. (d) In order to provide that one or more countries should not be treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to certain eligible articles for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in section C(4) of Annex I to this proclamation is modified as provided in such section. (4) A waiver of the application of section 503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act shall apply to the eligible articles in the HTS subheadings and to the beneficiary developing countries set forth in Annex II and in section C of Annex IV to Uiis proclamation. (5) In order to provide for the continuation of previously proclaimed staged reductions of duties in the Rates of Duty 1-General subcolmnn for goods that fall in the HTS subheadings modified by section B of Annex I to this proclamation and that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates specified in section