To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods of Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

Proclamation 8180 of September 28, 2007

To Provide for Duty Elimination for Certain Goods
of Mexico Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. On December 17, 1992, the Governments of Canada,
Mexico, and the United States of America entered into
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The
NAFTA was approved by the Congress in section 101(a) of
the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation
Act (Public Law 103-182) (the ``NAFTA Implementation
Act'') (19 U.S.C. 3311(a)) and was implemented with
respect to the United States by Presidential
Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993.

2. Section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19
U.S.C. 3331(b)) authorizes the President, subject to
the consultation and layover requirements of section
103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C.
3313(a)), to proclaim accelerated schedules of duty
elimination that the United States may agree to with
Mexico or Canada. Consistent with Article 302(3) of the
NAFTA, I, through my duly empowered representative,
have entered into an agreement with the Government of
Mexico providing for an accelerated schedule of duty
elimination for specific goods of Mexico. The
consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a)
of the NAFTA Implementation Act with respect to such
schedule of duty elimination have been satisfied.

3. Pursuant to section 201(b) of the NAFTA
Implementation Act, I have determined that the
modifications herein proclaimed of duties on goods
originating in the territory of Mexico are necessary or
appropriate to maintain the general level of reciprocal
and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to
Mexico provided for by the NAFTA, and to carry out the
agreement with Mexico providing an accelerated schedule
of duty elimination for specific goods.

4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), 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 actions taken thereunder.

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
section 201(b) of the NAFTA Implementation Act and
section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:

(1) In order to provide an accelerated schedule of duty
elimination for specific goods of Mexico under the
terms of general note 12 to the HTS, the tariff
treatment set forth in the HTS is modified as provided
in the Annex to this proclamation.

(2) The amendments made to the HTS by the Annex to this
proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption,
on or after October 1, 2007.

(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
twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
second.
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