To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized

Proclamation 7586 of August 28, 2002

To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the
Generalized

System of Preferences for Argentina

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Section 503(c)(2)(C) of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended (the ``1974 Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(C)),
provides that a country that is no longer treated as a
beneficiary developing country with respect to an
eligible article may be redesignated as a beneficiary
developing country with respect to such article if
imports of such article from such country did not
exceed the competitive need limitations in section
503(c)(2)(A) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(A))
during the preceding calendar year.

2. Section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(2)(F)) provides that the President may
disregard the competitive need limitation provided in
section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) (19 U.S.C.
2463(c)(2)(A)(i)(II)) with respect to any eligible
article from any beneficiary developing country if the
aggregate appraised value of the imports of such
article into the United States during the preceding
calendar year does not exceed an amount set forth in
section 503(c)(2)(F)(ii) (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)(F)(ii)).

3. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(C) of the 1974 Act, I
have determined that Argentina should be redesignated
as a beneficiary developing country with respect to
certain eligible articles that previously had been
imported in quantities exceeding the competitive need
limitations of section 503(c)(2)(A).

4. Pursuant to section 503(c)(2)(F) of the 1974 Act, I
have determined that the competitive need limitation
provided in section 503(c)(2)(A)(i)(II) should be
waived with respect to certain eligible articles from
Argentina.

5. Section 604 of 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 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, including section 301 of title 3, United
States Code, and title V and section 604 of the 1974
Act, do proclaim that:

(1) In order to provide that Argentina, which has
not been treated as a beneficiary developing country
with respect to certain eligible articles, should be
redesignated as a beneficiary developing country with
respect to those articles for purposes of the GSP:

(a) general note 4(d) to the HTS is modified as
provided in section A of the Annex to this
proclamation.

(b) the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each of
the HTS subheadings enumerated in section B of the
Annex to this proclamation is modified as provided in
such section.

(2) A waiver of the application of section
503(c)(2)(A) (i)(II) of the 1974 Act shall apply to the
eligible articles in the HTS subheadings and to

the beneficiary developing country listed in section C
of the Annex to this proclamation.
(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.
(4) The modifications made by the Annex to this
proclamation shall be effective with respect to
articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after the 15th day after the
publication of this proclamation in the Federal
Register.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and twenty-seventh.

(Presidential Sig.)B

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