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 Proc. 8214 Title 3--The President Proclamation 8214 of December 27, 2007 To Adjust the Rules of Ori\365in Under the United States-Chile Free Trade A\365reement and the United States-Sin\365apore Free Trade A\365reement By the President of the United States o/America A Proclamation 1. Section 1206(a) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (the "1988 Act") (19 U.S.C. 3006(a)) authorizes the President to proclaim modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) based on the recommendations of the U.S. International Trade Com- mission (the "Commission") under section 1205 of the 1988 Act (19 U.S.C. 3005), if he determines that the modifications are in conformity with United States obligations under the International Convention on the Har- monized Commodity Description and Coding System (the "Convention") and do not run counter to the national economic interest of the United States. In 2006, the Commission recommended modifications to the HTS pursuant to section 1205 of the 1988 Act to conform the HTS to amend- ments made to the Convention. In Presidential Proclamation 8097 of De- cember 29, 2006, I modified the HTS pursuant to section 1206 of the 1988 Act to conform the HTS to the amendments to the Convention. 2. Presidential Proclamation 7746 of December 30, 2003, implemented the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement (USCFTA) with respect to the United States and, pursuant to section 201 of the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the "USCFTA Act") (19 U.S.C. 3805 note), the staged reductions in rates of duty that I determined to be nec- essary or appropriate to carry out or apply articles 3.3 (including the sched- ule of United States duty reductions with respect to originating goods set forth in Annex 3.3 to the USCFTA), 3.7, 3.9, and 3.20(8), (\365), (10), and (11) of the USCFTA. 3. In order to ensure the continuation of the staged reductions in rates of duty for originating goods from Chile in categories that were modified to conform to the Convention, I proclaimed in Presidential Proclamation 8097 modifications to the HTS that I determined were necessary or appropriate to carry out the duty reductions proclaimed in Proclamation 7746. 4. Chile is a party to the Convention. Because the substance of changes to the Convention are reflected in slightly differing form in the national tariff schedules of the parties to the USCFTA, the rules of origin set out in Annex 4.1 of that Agreement must be changed to ensure that the tariff and certain other treatment accorded under the USCFTA to originating goods will continue to be provided under the tariff categories that were modified in Proclamation 8097. The USCFTA parties have agreed to make these changes. 5. Section 202 of the USCFTA provides certain rules for determining whether a good is an originating good for the purposes of implementing tar- iff treatment under the USCFTA. Section 202(o) of the USCFTA Act author- izes the President to proclaim the rules of origin set out in the USCFTA and any subordinate tariff categories necessary to carry out the USCFTA, subiect to the exceptions stated in section 202(o)(2)(A). 152

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