Proclamation 6465—To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences

1. Pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the 1974 Act) and 2462), and having due regard for the eligibility criteria set forth therein, I have determined that it is appropraite to designate each of the former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, other than Serbia and Montenegro, under the first sentence of section 502(a)(1) for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

2. Section 604 of the 1974 Act authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder.

Now, Therefore, I, George 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 title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:

(1) General note 3(c)(ii)(A) to the HTS, is modified by inserting "Each of the former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia other than Serbia and Montenegro" after "Zimbabwe" in the list contained therein.

(2) General note 3(c)(ii)(D) to the HTS is modified by:

(a) deleting the following:

"9401.30.40 Yugoslavia"

"9401.61.40 Yugoslavia"

"9401.69.60 Yugoslavia"

"9401.90.40 Yugoslavia"

(b) inserting, in numerical sequence, the following:

"9401.30.40 Croatia; Slovenia"

"9401.61.40 Croatia; Slovenia"

"9401.69.60 Croatia; Slovenia"

"9401.90.40 Croatia; Slovenia"

(3) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

(4) The amendment made by this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventeenth.

GEORGE BUSH