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 Proc. 7971 Title 3--The President Agreement Implementation Act (the "USMFTA Act") (Public Law 108-302, 1\1778 Stat. \17703) (\1779 U.S.C. 3805 note). 2. Section 105(a) of the USMFTA Act authorizes the President to establish or designate within the Department of Commerce an office that shall be re- sponsible for providing administrative assistance to panels established under Chapter 20 of the USMFTA. 3. Section 20\177 of the USMFTA Act authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications or continuation of any duty, such continuation of duty- free or excise treatment, or such additional duties as the President deter- mines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out or apply Articles 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 4A, 4.3.9, 4.3A0, 4.3A1, 4.3A3, 4.3A4, and 4.3A5, and the schedule of reductions with respect to Morocco set forth in Annex IV of the USMFTA. 4. Consistent with section 20\177(a)(2) of the USMFTA Act, Morocco is to be removed from the enumeration of designated beneficiary developing coun- tries eligible for the benefits of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Further, consistent with section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the "\177974 Act") (\1779 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, I have determined that other technical and conforming changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) are necessary to reflect that Morocco is no longer eligi- ble to receive benefits of the GSP. 5. Section 203 of the USMFTA Act provides certain rules for determining whether a good is an originating good for the purposes of implementing preferential tariff treatment under the USMFTA. I have decided that it is necessary to include these rules of origin, together with particular rules ap- plicable to certain other goods, in the HTS. 6. Section 204 of the USMFTA Act authorizes the President to take certain enforcement actions relating to trade with Morocco in textile and apparel goods. 7. Subtitle B of title III of the USMFTA Act authorizes the President to take certain actions in response to a request by an interested party for relief from serious damage or actual threat thereof to a domestic industry pro- ducing certain textile or apparel articles. 8. Executive Order \177651, as amended, establishes the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) to supervise the implementa- tion of textile trade agreements. 9. Section 604 of the \177974 Act, as amended, authorizes the President to em- body in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to sec- tions 20\177, 203, 204, and 32\177-328 of the USMFTA Act, section 30\177 of title 3, United States Code, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that: (\177) In order to provide generally for the preferential tariff treatment being accorded under the USMFTA, to set forth rules for determining whether goods imported into the customs territory of the United States are eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the USMFTA, to pro- vide certain other treatment to originating goods for the purposes of the 150

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