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 PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

102 STAT. 1151

(d) REQUIREMENTS REGARDING RECOMMENDATIONS.—The Commission may not recommend any modification to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule unless the modification meets the following requirements: (1) The modification must— (A) be consistent with the Convention or any amendment thereto recommended for adoption; (B) be consistent with sound nomenclature principles; and (C) ensure substantial rate neutrality. (2) Any change to a rate of duty must be consequent to, or necessitated by, nomenclature modifications that are recommended under this section. (3) The modification must not alter existing conditions of competition for the affected United States industry, labor, or trade. SEC. 1206. PRESIDENTIAL ACTION ON COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS. 19 USC 3006.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The President may proclaim modifications, based on the recommendations by the Commission under section 1205, to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule if the President determines that the modifications— (1) are in conformity with United States obligations under the Convention; and (2) do not run counter to the national economic interest of the United States. (h) LAY-OVF,R PERIOD.—

(1) The President may proclaim a modification under subsec- President of U.S. tion (a) only after the expiration of the 60-day period beginning Reports. on the date on which the President submits a report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate that sets forth the proposed modification and the reasons therefor. (2) The 60-day period referred to in paragraph (1) shall be computed by excluding— (A) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain or an adjournment of the Congress sine die; and (B) any Saturday and Sunday, not excluded under subparagraph (A), when either House is not in session. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE OF MODIFICATIONS.—Modifications proclaimed by the President under subsection (a) may not take effect before the 15th day after the date on which the text of the proclamation is published in the Federal Register. SEC. 1207. PUBLICATION OF THE HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall compile and publish, at appropriate intervals, and keep up to date the Harmonized Tariff Schedule and related information in the form of printed copy; and, if, in its judgment, such format would serve the public interest and convenience— (1) in the form of microfilm images; or (2) in the form of electroiiic media. (h) CONTENT.—Publications under subsection (a), in whatever format, shall contain— (1) the then current Harmonized Tariff Schedule; (2) statistical annotations and related statistical information formulated under section 484(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1484(e)); and

19 USC 3007.

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