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 Proclamations Proc. 8111 Nicaragua has failed to comply with a commitment under an agreement be- tween the United States and Nicaragua with regard to the administration of such tariff preference level. 7. Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, \177993, implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with respect to the United States and, pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement Imple- mentation Act (Public Law \17703-\17782) (the "NAFTA Implementation Act"), incorporated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the tariff modifications and rules of origin necessary or appropriate to carry out the NAFTA. 8. Section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act (\1779 U.S.C. 3332) provides rules for determining whether goods imported into the United States origi- nate in the territory of a NAFTA party and thus are eligible for the tariff and other treatment contemplated under the NAFTA. Section 202(q) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3332(q)) authorizes the President to proclaim, as a part of the HTS, the rules of origin set out in the NAFTA and to proclaim modifications to such previously proclaimed rules of ori- gin, subject to the consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (\1779 U.S.C. 33\1773(a)). 9. The United States and Mexico have agreed to modify certain NAFTA rules of origin. It is therefore necessary to modify the NAFTA rules of ori- gin set out in Proclamation 664\177. 10. Executive Order \17765\177 of March 3, \177972, as amended, established the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA), consisting of representatives of the Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the representative of the Department of Commerce as Chairman, to super- vise the implementation of textile trade agreements. Consistent with 3 U.S.C. 30% when carrying out functions vested in the President by statute and assigned by the President to CITA, the officials collectively exercising those functions are all to be officers required to be appointed by the Presi- dent with the advice and consent of the Senate. \177. Section 604 of the Trade Act of \177974 (the "\177974 Act") (19 U.S.C. 2483), as amended, authorizes the President to embody 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 the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to section 20\177 of the Act, section \177634(c)(2) of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, section 30\177 of title 3, United States Code, and section 604 of the \177974 Act, and the Act having taken effect pursuant to section 107(a), do proclaim that: (\177) In order to provide generally for the preferential tariff treatment being accorded under the Agreement to the Dominican Republic, to provide cer- tain other treatment to originating goods for the purposes of the Agreement, 13

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