Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42 Issue 26 (Monday, July 3, 2006)

[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 26 (Monday, July 3, 2006)]
[Pages 1252-1253]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 8034--To Implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-
United States Free Trade Agreement With Respect to Guatemala, and for 
Other Purposes

 June 30, 2006

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    1. On August 5, 2004, the United States entered into the Dominican 
Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (Agreement) 
with Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
Honduras, and Nicaragua (Agreement countries). The Agreement was 
approved by the Congress in section 101(a) of the Dominican Republic-
Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act 
(the ``Act'') (Public Law 109-53, 119 Stat. 462) (19 U.S.C. 4001 note).
    2. Section 201 of the Act authorizes the President to proclaim such 
modifications or continuation of any duty, such continuation of duty-
free or excise treatment, or such additional duties, as the President 
determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out or apply Article 
3.3 and Annex 3.3 (including the schedule of United States duty 
reductions with respect to originating goods) of the Agreement.
    3. Consistent with section 201(a)(2) of the Act, each Agreement 
country is to be removed from the enumeration of designated beneficiary 
developing countries eligible for the benefits of the Generalized System 
of Preferences (GSP) on the date the Agreement enters into force with 
respect to that country.
    4. Consistent with section 201(a)(3) of the Act, each Agreement 
country is to be removed from the enumeration of designated beneficiary 
countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) (19 
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) on the date the Agreement enters into force with 
respect to that country, subject to the exceptions set out in section 
201(a)(3)(B) of the Act.
    5. Consistent with section 213(b)(5)(D) of the CBERA, as amended by 
the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) (Public 
Law 106-200), each Agreement country is to be removed from the 
enumeration of designated CBTPA beneficiary countries on the date the 
Agreement enters into force with respect to that country.
    6. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``1974 Act'') (19 
U.S.C. 2483), as amended, authorizes the President to embody in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of 
relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import 
treatment, and of actions taken thereunder.
     Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States 
of America,

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acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
of the United States of America, including but not limited to section 
201 of the Act and section 604 of the 1974 Act, and the Act having taken 
effect pursuant to section 107(a), do proclaim that:
    (1) In order to provide generally for the preferential tariff 
treatment being accorded under the Agreement to Guatemala, to provide 
certain other treatment to originating goods for the purposes of the 
Agreement, to provide tariff-rate quotas with respect to certain goods, 
to reflect the removal of Guatemala from the enumeration of designated 
beneficiary developing countries for purposes of the GSP, to reflect the 
removal of Guatemala from the enumeration of designated beneficiary 
countries for purposes of the CBERA and the CBTPA, to implement 
statistical monitoring relating to tariff provisions that the President 
previously proclaimed to implement the Agreement, and to make technical 
and conforming changes in the general notes to the HTS, the HTS is 
modified as set forth in the Annex of Publication 3861 of the United 
States International Trade Commission, entitled ``Modifications to the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to Implement the 
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement 
With Respect to Guatemala'' (Publication 3861), which is incorporated by 
reference into this proclamation.
    (2)(a) The amendments to the HTS made by paragraph (1) of this 
proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the relevant dates 
indicated in the Annex to Publication 3861.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (2)(a) of this proclamation, 
this proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 2006.
    (3) 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.
     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day 
of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
thirtieth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 5, 
2006]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 6.