[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 251 (Tuesday, December 31, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79954-79956]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-33003]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Technical Corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is making 
technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTS) as set forth in the annex to this notice, pursuant to 
authority delegated to the USTR in Presidential Proclamation 6969 of 
January 27, 1997 (62 FR 4415). These modifications correct several 
inadvertent errors and omissions in various Presidential Proclamations, 
as set forth herein, so that the intended tariff treatment is provided.

EFFECTIVE DATE: As set forth in the Annex to this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katharine J. Mueller, Assistant 
General Counsel, (202) 395-3581.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to various statutes implementing 
trade agreements and to section 604 of the Trade At of 1974, as amended 
(19 U.S.C. 2483), the President issued proclamations in order to 
reflect in the HTS the substance of those agreements and actions taken 
pursuant to such statutes. This notice corrects several inadvertent 
errors and omissions in the following Presidential Proclamations, so 
that the intended tariff treatment is provided: (1) Presidential 
Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993, which implemented the tariff 
treatment provided for in the North American Free Trade Agreement 
(``NAFTA''); (2) Presidential Proclamation 6763 of December 23, 1994, 
which implemented with respect to the United States the trade 
agreements resulting from the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade 
negotiations; (3) Presidential Proclamation 6857 of December 11, 1995, 
which affected certain NAFTA tariff classification rules; (4) 
Presidential Proclamation 7512 of December 7, 2001, implementing the 
Agreement between the United States of America and the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area; (5) 
Presidential Proclamation 7515 of December 18, 2001, modifying various 
provisions of the HTS in order to conform it to amendments made to the 
International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and 
Coding System; (6) Presidential Proclamation 7616 of October 31, 2002, 
implementing the preferential tariff treatment authorized by the Andean 
Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (the ``ATPDEA''); and (7) in 
Presidential Proclamation 7626 of November 13, 2002, implementing 
modifications in the preferential tariff treatment provided under 
provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, pursuant to 
the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, and of the 
African Growth and Opportunity Act.
    Proclamation 6969 authorized the USTR to exercise the authority 
provided to the President under section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 
(19 U.S.C. 2483) to embody rectifications, technical or conforming 
changes, and similar modifications in the HTS. Under the authority 
vested in the USTR by Proclamation 6969, the rectifications, technical 
and conforming changes, and similar modifications set forth in the 
annex to this notice shall be embodied in the HTS with respect to goods 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 
dates specified for the respective actions set forth in such annex.

Robert B. Zoellick,
 United States Trade Representative.

Annex

    Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates indicated in each 
annex section below, the Harmonized Tariff

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Schedule of the United States (HTS) is hereby modified as follows:
    Section A. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1995:
    1. The article description of subheading 2922.50.07 is modified 
by inserting after ``acid'' the language ``(d(-)-p-
Hydroxyphenylglycine)''.
    2. Subheading 2922.50.11 is modified by deleting the article 
description and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:
    ``Salts of d(-)-p-Hydroxyphenylglycine ((R)-a-Amino-4-
hydroxybenzeneacetic acid)'' and by deleting from the Rates of Duty 
1-Special subcolumn the symbol ''K,''.

    3. Subheading 9904.04.96 is modified by deleting ``1904.90.47'' 
and by inserting in lieu thereof ``1901.90.47''.
    4. Subheading 9904.17.44 is modified by deleting ``1902.20.60'' 
and by inserting in lieu thereof ``1901.20.60''.
    Section B. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1996, general 
note 12(t) is modified by inserting in numerical sequence the 
following new tariff classification rule for chapter 84:

``213. A change to tariff item 8473.30.30 from any other tariff 
item.''

    Section C. Effective with respect to articles entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 
2000, additional U.S. note 16 to chapter 4 is modified by deleting 
``25,810,000'' set out opposite ``EC 15'' in such note and by 
inserting ``25,811,000'' in lieu thereof.
    Section D. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after October 2, 2000:
    1. U.S. note 2(d) to subchapter XX of chapter 98 is modified by 
deleting the phrase ``in the preceding 1-year period'' and by 
inserting in lieu thereof ``entered during the preceding 12-month 
period''.
    2. The article description of subheading 9820.11.18 is modified 
by deleting the phrase ``(except for t-shirts, other than underwear, 
classifiable in subheadings 6109.10.00 and 6109.90.10 and described 
in subheading 9820.11.12)''.
    Section E. Effective with respect to goods of Jordan:
    1. For subheading 6307.90.98, the Rates of Duty 1-Special 
subcolumn is modified by inserting, during the period from January 
10, 2002, through December 31, 2002, inclusive, the rate of duty of 
``3.5%'' followed by the symbol ``(JO)''; such duty rate is deleted 
at the close of December 31, 2002, and the duty rate of ``1.7%'' is 
inserted in lieu thereof, effective with respect to goods entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during the period from 
January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003; and effective at the 
close of December 31, 2003, such duty rate is deleted along with the 
symbol ``JO'' in parentheses, and the symbol ``JO,'' is inserted in 
alphabetical sequence in the parenthetical expression set forth 
after the duty rate of ``Free'' effective with respect to goods 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 
January 1, 2004.
    2. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after December 17, 2001, for each 
of the HTS subheadings listed below, the expression ``[cent]/kg'' is 
deleted at each occurrence from the Rates of Duty 1-Special 
subcolumn for the duty rate followed by the symbol ``JO'' in 
parentheses and ``[cent]/pr.'' is inserted in lieu thereof; and such 
modifications shall likewise be made in the years 2003 through 2010, 
inclusive, for such special duty rate for goods of Jordan:

6402.19.50
6402.19.70
6402.30.70
6402.30.80
6402.91.70
6402.91.80
6402.99.70
6402.99.80
6404.11.70
6404.11.80
6404.19.70
6404.19.80
6404.10.30
6404.10.35

    3. For HTS subheading 9608.10.00, for calendar year 2003, the 
duty rate ``0.2[cent] each +'' followed by the symbol ``JO'' in 
parentheses is deleted from the Rates of Duty 1--Special subcolumn 
and ``0.2[cent] each + 1.3%'' is inserted in lieu thereof.
    Section F. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 10, 2002:
    1. Additional U.S. note 3 to chapter 27 is modified by deleting 
``2710.00.15'' and by inserting in lieu thereof ``2710.11.15''.
    2. For subheading 2202.90.30, the Rates of Duty 1--Special 
subcolumn is modified by deleting ``See 9906.22.04-9906.22.05 (MX)'' 
and by inserting ``2.12[cent]/liter (MX)'' in lieu thereof.
    3. Conforming changes:
    (a). Subheadings 9906.22.04 and 9906.22.05 and the superior text 
immediately preceding such subheadings are deleted.
    (b). On January 1 for each of the years indicated in the 
following dated columns, the rates of duty for subheading 2202.90.30 
followed by the symbol ``MX'' in parentheses in the Rates of Duty 
1--Special subcolumn are deleted and the following rates of duty are 
inserted in lieu thereof:

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       2003               2004               2005               2006               2007               2008
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1.767[cent]/liter  1.413[cent]/liter  1.06[cent]/liter   0.707[cent]/liter  0.353[cent]/liter             Free
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    Section G. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after August 6, 2002:
    1. The article description of subheading 9819.11.12 is modified 
by deleting the word ``in'' immediately before ``one or more such 
lesser developed countries''.
    2. The article description of subheading 9820.11.18 is modified 
by inserting the phrase '', or from components knit-to-shape in the 
United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States, or 
both'' after the phrase ``from yarns wholly formed in the United 
States''.
    3. For each of the subheadings listed below, the Rates of Duty 
1--Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol '', J'' from 
the parenthetical expression also containing the symbol ``E'':

       4202.11.00             4202.22.45             4202.92.30             4602.10.29             6216.00.17
       4202.12.20             4202.22.60             4202.92.45             6116.10.17             6216.00.19
       4202.12.40             4202.22.80             4202.92.60             6116.10.44             6216.00.21
       4202.12.60             4202.29.90             4202.92.90             6116.10.48             6216.00.24
       4202.12.80             4202.31.60             4202.99.90             6116.10.55             6216.00.26
       4202.19.00             4202.32.40             4203.10.40             6116.10.65             6216.00.38
       4202.21.30             4202.32.80             4203.29.08             6116.92.64             6216.00.54
       4202.21.60             4202.32.95             4203.29.18             6116.92.88
       4202.21.90             4202.91.00             4602.10.21             6116.93.64
       4202.22.15             4202.92.15             4602.10.22             6116.93.88
       4202.22.40             4202.92.20             4602.10.25             6116.99.48
 

    Section H. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after October 31, 2002, the 
following HTS subheadings are each modified by deleting from the 
Rates of Duty 1--Special subcolumn the symbol ``J+'':

     4202.12.40         4202.32.40         4202.92.90        6116.93.88
     4202.12.60         4202.32.80         6116.10.17        6116.99.48
     4202.12.80         4202.32.95         6116.10.48        6216.00.17
     4202.22.40         4202.92.15         6116.10.55        6216.00.21

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     4202.22.45         4202.92.20         6116.92.64        6216.00.24
     4202.22.60         4202.92.30         6116.92.88        6216.00.38
     4202.22.80         4202.92.60         6116.93.64        6216.00.54
 

    Section I. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 2003:
    1. Subheading 0709.90.91 is modified by deleting from the Rates 
of Duty 1--Special subcolumn the symbol ``(MX)'' and the immediately 
preceding phrase and by inserting in the parentheses following the 
``Free'' duty rate in such subcolumn the symbol ``MX'' in 
alphabetical sequence.
    2. For subheading 7111.00.00, the staged general tariff rate of 
``11%'' previously proclaimed for the year 2003 is deleted from the 
Rates of Duty 1---General subcolumn and the general rate of ``10%'' 
is inserted in lieu thereof for 2003.
    3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Annex section G(6) to Pres. 
Proc. 6763, the Rates of Duty 1--Special subcolumn for subheading 
0709.60.20 shall contain the special rate ``See 9906.07.41-
9906.07.43 (MX)'' until the provisions of Annex section G(7) are 
scheduled to become effective.
    Section J. Subheading 4013.90.10 is modified as follows:
    1. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1994, the article 
description for such subheading is modified by deleting ``and 
4012.20.20'' and by inserting in lieu thereof ``, 4012.20.15 and 
4012.20.45''; and
    2. Effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after January 10, 2002, the article 
description for such subheading is modified by deleting 
``4011.91.10, 4011.99.10, 4012.10.20'' and by inserting in lieu 
thereof ``4011.61.00, 4011.92.00, 4012.19.20,''.
    Section K. Effective with respect to articles entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the fifteenth 
day after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the HTS is modified as follows:
    (1) General note 4(d) is modified by deleting the following 
subheadings and the country set out opposite such subheadings:

2208.90.05 Trinidad and Tobago
8412.10.00 Russia
8419.50.10 Malta
8419.60.10 Malta

    (2) For the subheadings 8419.50.10 and 8419.60.10, the Rates of 
Duty 1--Special subcolumn is modified by deleting the symbol ``A*'' 
and inserting an ``A'' in lieu thereof.

[FR Doc. 02-33003 Filed 12-30-02; 8:45 am]
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