To Implement the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade

Proclamation 7351 of October 2, 2000

To Implement the United States-Caribbean Basin
Trade

Partnership Act
By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Section 211 of the United States-Caribbean Basin
Trade Partnership Act (Title II of Public Law 106-200)
(CBTPA), which amends section 213(b) of the Caribbean
Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) (19 U.S.C.
2703(b)), provides that certain preferential tariff
treatment may be provided to eligible articles that are
the product of any country that the President
designates as a ``CBTPA beneficiary country'' pursuant
to section 213(b)(5)(B) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C.
2703(b)(5)(B)), provided that the President determines
that the country has satisfied the requirements of
section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C.
2703(b)(4)(A)(ii)) relating to the implementation of
procedures and requirements similar to those in chapter
5 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

2. Section 211 of the CBTPA, which amends section
213(b) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)), provides that
eligible textile and apparel articles of a designated
CBTPA beneficiary country shall enter the United States
free of duty and free of quantitative limitations,
provided that the President determines that the country
has satisfied the requirements of section
213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA relating to the
implementation of procedures and requirements similar
to those in chapter 5 of the NAFTA.

3. Section 212 of the CBTPA, which amends section
213(a) of the CBERA (19 U.S.C. 2703(a)), provides duty-
free treatment for certain liqueurs and spirituous
beverages produced in Canada from rum that originates
in a designated beneficiary country or the Virgin
Islands of the United States.

4. In order to implement the tariff treatment provided
under the CBTPA, it is necessary to modify the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS),
thereby incorporating the substance of the relevant
provisions of the CBTPA.

5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``1974
Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to
embody in the 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.

6. I have determined that it is appropriate to
authorize the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
to perform the functions specified in section
213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA and certain functions
under section 604 of the 1974 Act.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 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, sections 211 and 212 of the CBTPA, section
213 of the CBERA, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do
proclaim that:

(1) In order to provide for the preferential
treatment provided for in section 213 of the CBERA (19
U.S.C. 2703), as amended by the CBTPA, the HTS is
modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation.

(2) The following countries are designated as CBTPA
beneficiary countries pursuant to section 213(b)(5)(B)
of the CBERA:
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Costa Rica
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Montserrat
Netherlands Antilles
Nicaragua
Panama
St. Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
British Virgin Islands
(3) The USTR is authorized to determine whether
each designated beneficiary country has satisfied the
requirements of section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA
relating to the implementation of procedures and
requirements similar in all material respects to the
relevant procedures and requirements under chapter 5 of
the NAFTA. To implement such determination or
determinations, the USTR is authorized to exercise the
authority provided to the President under section 604
of the 1974 Act to embody modifications and technical
or conforming changes in the HTS. The determination or
determinations of the USTR under this paragraph shall
be set forth in a notice or notices that the USTR shall
cause to be published in the Federal Register. Such
notice or notices shall modify general note 17 of the
HTS by listing the countries that satisfy the
requirements of section 213(b)(4)(A)(ii) of the CBERA.
(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.
(5) This proclamation is effective on the date of
signature of this proclamation, except that the
modifications to the HTS made by the Annex to this
proclamation, as further modified by any notice to be
published in the Federal Register as described in
paragraph 3 of this proclamation, shall be effective on
the date announced by the USTR in such notice.

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

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