To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Proclamation 9406 of March 14, 2016

To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth
and Opportunity Act

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. In Proclamation 7350 of October 2, 2000, the
President designated the Republic of South Africa
(South Africa) as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African
country for purposes of section 506A(a)(1) of the Trade
Act of 1974 (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2466a(a)(1)),
as added by section 111(a) of the African Growth and
Opportunity Act (title I of Public Law 106-200) (AGOA).

2. Sections 506A(d)(4)(C) (19 U.S.C. 2466a(d)(4)(C))
and 506A(c)(1) (19 U.S.C. 2466a(c)(1)) of the 1974 Act
authorize the President to suspend the application of
duty-free treatment provided for any article described
in section 506A(b)(1) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2466a(b)(1)) or 19 U.S.C. 3721 with respect to a
beneficiary sub-Saharan African country if he
determines that the beneficiary country is not meeting
the requirements described in section 506A(a)(1) of the
1974 Act and that suspending such duty-free treatment
would be more effective in promoting compliance by the
country with those requirements than terminating the
designation of the country as a beneficiary sub-Saharan
African country for purposes of section 506A of the
1974 Act.

3. In Proclamation 9388 of January 11, 2016, pursuant
to section 506A(c)(1) of the 1974 Act, I determined
that South Africa was not meeting the requirements
described in section 506A(a)(1) of the 1974 Act and
that suspending the application of duty-free treatment
to certain goods would be more effective in promoting
compliance by South Africa with such requirements than
terminating the designation of South Africa as a
beneficiary sub-Saharan African country. Thus, pursuant
to section 506A(c)(1) of the 1974 Act, I suspended the
application of duty-free treatment for all AGOA-
eligible goods in the agricultural sector from South
Africa for purposes of section 506A of the 1974 Act,
effective on March 15, 2016.

4. Pursuant to section 506A of the 1974 Act, based on
actions that the Government of South Africa has taken
to come into compliance with the requirements described
in section 506A(a)(1) of the 1974 Act, I have
determined that suspending the application of duty-free
treatment to certain goods is no longer necessary to
promote compliance by South Africa with such
requirements.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, including but not limited to
sections 506A(d)(4)(C) and 506A(c)(1) of the 1974 Act,
do proclaim that:

(1) Proclamation 9388 of January 11, 2016, is hereby
revoked.

(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.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord two
thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and fortieth.