12 2 STA T .5 2 3 1 PROCL A M AT I O N8 21 4—DE C.2 7, 2 0 07 Proclam a ti o n8214 o fDe cem b er2 7, 2 0 07 ToAdjust t heR u l eso fOrig i nU nder the United S t a tes -C hile F ree Trade Agree m ent and the United States- Singa p ore Free Trade Agreement BythePr e sid e n t of the U nited S t a tes of Am eri c a A Proc l amation 1.Section 1 206(a) o f t h e Om ni busTr a d e and C om p etiti v eness A ct of 1 98 8 (the ‘ ‘1988 Act ’ ’
) (19 U .S.C. 3 006(a)) authori z es the P resident to proc l aim modifications to the H armonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) based on the recommendations of the U.S. I nter - national Trade Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’;) under section 120 5 of the 1988 Act (19 U.S.C. 3005) , if he determines that the modifications are in conformit yw ith United States obli g ations under the Inter- national Convention on the Harmonized Commodity D escription and Coding System (the ‘‘Convention’’;) and do not run counter to the na- tional economic interest of the United States. In 2006, the Commission recommended modifications to the HTS pursuant to section 1205 of the 1988 Act to conform the HTS to amendments made to the Conven- tion. In Presidential Proclamation 809 7 of December 29, 2006, I modi- fied the HTS pursuant to section 1206 of the 1988 Act to conform the HTS to the amendments to the Convention. 2. Presidential Proclamation 77 4 6 of December 30, 2003, implemented the United States-Chile F ree Trade Agreement (USCFTA) with respect to the United States and, pursuant to section 201 of the United States- Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the ‘‘USCFTA Act’’;) (19 U.S.C. 3805 note), the staged reductions in rates of duty that I de- termined to be necessary or appropriate to carry out or apply articles 3.3 (including the schedule of United States duty reductions with re- spect to originating goods set forth in Anne x 3.3 to the USCFTA), 3.7, 3.9, and 3.20(8), (9), (10), and (11) of the USCFTA. 3. In order to ensure the continuation of the staged reductions in rates of duty for originating goods from Chile in categories that were modi- fied to conform to the Convention, I proclaimed in Presidential Procla- mation 8097 modifications to the HTS that I determined were nec- essary or appropriate to carry out the duty reductions proclaimed in Proclamation 7746. 4. Chile is a party to the Convention. B ecause the substance of changes to the Convention are reflected in slightly differing form in the national tariff schedules of the parties to the USCFTA, the rules of origin set out in Annex 4.1 of that Agreement must be changed to ensure that the tariff and certain other treatment accorded under the USCFTA to originating goods will continue to be provided under the tariff cat- egories that were modified in Proclamation 8097. The USCFTA parties have agreed to ma k e these changes. 5. Section 202 of the USCFTA provides certain rules for determining whether a good is an originating good for the purposes of imple- menting tariff treatment under the USCFTA. Section 202(o) of the USCFTA Act authorizes the President to proclaim the rules of origin set out in the USCFTA and any subordinate tariff categories necessary
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