To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences

Proclamation 9492 of September 14, 2016

To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the
Generalized System of Preferences

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Section 502 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2462), authorizes the
President to designate countries as beneficiary
developing countries, and to designate any beneficiary
developing country as a least-developed beneficiary
developing country, for purposes of the Generalized
System of Preferences (GSP) program. Section
502(f)(1)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2462(f)(1)(A))
requires the President to notify the Congress before
designating any country as a beneficiary developing
country. Section 502(f)(1)(B) of the 1974 Act (19
U.S.C. 2462(f)(1)(B)) requires the President to notify
the Congress at least 60 days before designating any
country as a least-developed beneficiary developing
country.

2. Pursuant to section 502(a)(1) of the 1974 Act, and
taking into account the factors set forth in section
502(c) (19 U.S.C. 2462(c)), I have determined that the
suspension pursuant to Proclamation 5955 of April 13,
1989, of preferential treatment for Burma as a
beneficiary developing country under the GSP program
should be ended, and I will so notify the Congress.

3. Pursuant to section 502(a)(2) of the 1974 Act, and
having considered the factors set forth in sections 501
(19 U.S.C. 2461) and 502(c), I have also determined
that Burma should be designated as a least-developed
beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP
program, and I will so notify the Congress.

4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), as
amended, authorizes the President to embody in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States
the substance of the relevant provisions of that Act,
and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and
actions thereunder, including removal, modification,
continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other
import restriction.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Barack Obama, 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 title V and section
604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2461-67, 2483), do
proclaim that:

(1) In order to reflect in the HTS the restoration
of preferential treatment for Burma as a beneficiary
developing country under the GSP program, general note
4(a) is modified by adding in alphabetical order
``Burma'' to the list entitled ``Independent
Countries'' and to the list entitled ``Member Countries
of the Association of South East Asian Nations
(ASEAN).''
(2) In order to reflect in the HTS the designation
of Burma as a least-developed beneficiary developing
country under the GSP program, general note 4(b)(i) is
modified by adding in alphabetical order ``Burma.''
(3) The modifications to the HTS made by paragraphs
(1) and (2) of this proclamation shall be effective
with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is
60 days after the date of this proclamation.

(4) 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
fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
first.