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PUBLIC LAW 100-449—SEPT. 28, 1988

102 STAT. 1855

(1) The President, subject to subsection (c), shall proclaim President of U.S. such modifications to the Teiriff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) as may be necessary to give effect, until such time as such Convention and protocol are so implemented, to the rules of origin, schedule of rate reductions, and other provisions that would, but for the absence of such implementation, be proclaimed under the authority of this Act to, or in terms of, the Harmonized System to implement the obligations of the United States under the Agreement. (2) Until such time as such Convention and protocol are so implemented, any reference in this Act to the nomenclature of such Convention and protocol shall be treated as a reference to the corresponding nomenclature of the Tariff Schedules of the United States as modified under paragraph (1). (c) RESTRICTIONS.—

(1) No modification described in subsection ObXD that is to Federal take effect concurrently with the entry into force of the Agree- Register, ment may be proclaimed unless the text of the modification is publication. published in the Federal Register at least 30 days before the date of entry into force. (2) All modifications proclaimed under the authority of subsection (b)(1) after the Agreement enters into force with respect to the United States are subject to the consultation and lay-over requirements of section 103(a). SEC. 105. IMPLEMENTING ACTIONS IN ANTICIPATION OF ENTRY INTO FORCE.

Subject to section 103 or 104(c), as appropriate, and any other applicable restriction or limitation in this Act on the proclaiming of actions or the issuing of r ^ u l a t i o n s to carry out this Act or any amendment made by this Act, after the date of the enactment of this Act— (1) the President may proclaim such actions; and (2) other appropriate officers of the United States Government may issue such r^ulations; as may be necessary to ensure that any provision of this Act, or amendment made by this Act, that takes effect on the date the Agreement enters into force is appropriately implemented on such date, but no such proclamation or regulation may have an effective date earlier than the date of entry into force.

TITLE II—TARIFF MODIFICATIONS, 1 USC 2 1 9 12 RULES OF ORIGIN, USER FEES, DRAW- '^°*" BACK, ENFORCEMENT, AND OTHER CUSTOMS PROVISIONS SEC. 201. TARIFF MODIFICATIONS. (a) TARIFF MODIFICATIONS SPECIFIED IN THE AGREEMENT.—The

President may proclaim— (1) such modifications or continuance of any existing duty; (2) such continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment; or (3) such additional duties;

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