Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 103 Part 3.djvu/992

 103 STAT. 3060 PROCLAMATION 5997—JULY 6, 1989 approved July 17, 1959 (73 Stat. 212), has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the third week in July of each year as "Captive Nations Week." NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning July 16, 1989, as Captive Nations Week. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activi- ties, and I urge them to reaffirm their devotion to the aspirations of all peoples for justice, self-determination, and liberty. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fourteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 5997 of July 6, 1989 To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Pursuant to section 504(a)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 (the 1974 Act) (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1)), the President may withdraw, suspend, or limit the application of the duty-free treatment afforded under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) with respect to any article or any country upon consideration of the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act (19. U.S.C. 2461 and 2462(c)). Pursuant to section 504(c)(5) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)(5)), a country that has not been treat- ed as a beneficiary developing country with respect to an eligible arti- cle may be redesignated with respect to such article if imports of such article from such country did not exceed the limitations in section 504(c)(1) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)(1)) (after application of sec- tion 504(c)(2) of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)(2))) during the preceding calendar year. 2. Pursuant to section 504(a)(1) of the 1974 Act, after taking into ac- count the factors set forth in section 501 of the 1974 Act, I have deter- mined that it is appropriate to withdraw the duty-free treatment afford- ed under the GSP to imports from all designated beneficiary developing counfries of the cigarette leaf tobacco provided for in subheading 2401.20.40 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS). Further, I have determined, pursuant to section 504(c)(5) of the 1974 Act, that a certain country should be redesignated as a benefici- ary developing country with respect to a specific previously designated eligible article. This country had been previously excluded from bene- fits of the GSP with respect to such eligible article pursuant to section 504(c)(1) of the 1974 Act. 3. Section 201(a) of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988 (the Implementation Act) (Public Law No. 100-449,102 Stat. 1851) authorizes the President to proclaim such modi- fications or continuance of existing duties, such continuance of existing

�