[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 46 (Monday, November 19, 2001)]
[Pages 1669-1670]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7502--To Provide for the Termination of Action Taken With 
Regard to Imports of Lamb Meat

November 14, 2001

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. Proclamation 7208 issued July 7, 1999, implemented action of a 
type described in section 203(a)(3) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended 
(19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)) (the ``Trade Act''), with respect to imports of 
fresh, chilled, or frozen lamb meat, provided for in subheadings 
0204.10.00, 0204.22.20, 0204.23.20, 0204.30.00, 0204.42.20, and 
0204.43.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS). 
Proclamation 7208 took effect on July 22, 1999.
    2. Section 204(a)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2254(a)(1)) 
requires the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) to 
monitor developments with respect to the domestic industry while action 
taken under section 203 remains in effect. If the initial period of such 
action exceeds 3 years, then the Commission must submit to the President 
a report on the results of such monitoring not later than the date that 
is the mid-point of the initial period of the action. The USITC report 
in Investigation Number TA-204-2, issued on January 22, 2001, has been 
submitted.
    3. Section 204(b)(1)(A) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2254(b)(1)(A)) 
authorizes the President to reduce, modify, or terminate a safeguard 
action if, after taking into account any report or advice submitted by 
the USITC and after seeking the advice of the Secretary of Commerce and 
the Secretary of Labor, the President determines that changed 
circumstances warrant such reduction, modification, or termination. The 
President's determination may be made, inter alia, on the basis that the 
effectiveness of the action taken under section 203 has been impaired by 
changed economic circumstances.
    4. In view of the information provided in the USITC's report, and 
having sought advice from the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of 
Labor, I determine that the effectiveness of the action taken under 
section 203 with respect to lamb imports has been impaired by changed 
economic circumstances. Accordingly, I have determined, pursuant to 
section 204(b)(1)(A) of the Trade Act, that termination of the action 
taken under section 203 with respect to lamb meat imports is warranted.
    5. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the 
President to embody in the HTS the substance of the relevant provisions 
of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions 
thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or 
imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction.
    Now, Therefore, I, George W. 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 
sections 204 and 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:

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    (1) The HTS is modified as provided in the Annex to this 
proclamation.
    (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive Orders 
that are inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation are 
superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
    (3) The modifications to the HTS made by this proclamation shall be 
effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, after the close of November 14, 2001.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day 
of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
sixth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 16, 
2001]

 Note:  This proclamation and the attached annex were published in the  
Federal Register  on November 19.