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 PROCLAMATION 5911—NOV. 19, 1988 103 STAT. 2613 I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate pro- grams, ceremonies, and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty- ei^t, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirteentii. RONALD REAGAN Proclamation 5911 of November 19, 1988 To Implement Changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Section 1204(a) of the Onmibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (the Act) (P.L. 100-418; 19 U.S.C. 3004(a)) enacts the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (the HTS). Section 1204(b) (19 U.S.C. 3004(b)) confers authority upon the President to proclaim such modifications to the HTS as are consistent with the standards applied in converting the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) into the format of the International Convention on the Har- monized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) and are necessary or appropriate to implement: (1) future out- standing staged rate reductions; (2) the applicable provisions of stat- utes enacted. Executive actions taken, and final judicial decisions ren- dered, after January 1, 1988, and before January 1, 1989; and (3) such technical rectifications as the President considers necessary. 2. Pursuant to the terms of Section 1204(b)(1) of the Act, I have deter- mined that certain modifications to the HTS are necessary or appropri- ate in order to implement the future outstanding staged rate reductions for products of countrles entitled to most-favored-nation treatment, as set forth in Annex I to this Proclamation; the future outstanding staged rate reductions for products of Israel, as set forth in Annex II to this Proclamation; and the applicable provisions of statutes enacted and Executive actions taken after January 1, 1988, and before January 1, 1989, along with certain necessary technical rectifications, all of which are set forth in Annex IV to this Proclamation. 3. In Proclamations 5779 of March 23, 1988 (53 FR 9850), and 5805 of April 29, 1988 (53 FR 15785), I terminated preferential tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.) for articles that are eligible for such treatment and that are im- ported from Bahrain, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Nauru, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Panama, Singapore, or Taiwan, and I modified the general headnotes and other provisions of the TSUS to reflect such terminations. In Proclamation 5787 of March 31, 1988 (53 FR 11031), I also modified the TSUS to reflect the decisions made in the 1987 annual review of the GSP. Further, to carry forward these decisions into the nomenclature of the HTS, pursuant to Sections 1204(b)(1) and 1211(b) of the Act, and consistent with the standards to be applied in

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