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 PUBLIC LAW 103-465—DEC. 8, 1994 108 STAT. 4951 the United States, in a beneficiary country as defined in General Note 7(a) of the HTS shall be treated as a foreign article, or as subject to duty if— (i) the components after exportation from the United States, and (ii) the article itself before importation into the United States do not enter into the commerce of any foreign country other than such a beneficiary country. (5) EXCEPTION FOR UNITED STATES-ISRAEL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT. —This section shall not affect, for purposes of the customs laws and administration of quantitative restrictions, the status of goods that, under ruhngs and administrative practices in effect immediately before the enactment of this Act, would have originated in, or been the growth, product, or manufacture of, a country that is a party to an agreement with the United States establishing a free trade area, which entered into force before January 1, 1987. For such purposes, such rulings and administrative practices that were applied, immediately before the enactment of this Act, to determine the origin of textile and apparel products covered by such agreement shall continue to apply after the enactment of this Act, and on and after the effective date described in subsection (c), unless such rulings and practices are modified by the mutual consent of the parties to the agreement. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE. —This section shall apply to goods entered, or withdrawn fix)m warehouse, for consumption on or after July 1, 1996, except that this section shall not apply to goods if— (1) the contract for the sale of such goods to the United States is entered into before July 20, 1994; (2) all of the material terms of sale in such contract, including the price and quantity of the goods, are fixed and determinable before July 20, 1994; (3) a copy of the contract is filed with the Commissioner of Customs within 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, together with a certification that the contract meets the requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2); and (4) the goods are entered, or withdrawn fix)m warehouse, for consumption on or before January 1, 1998. The origin of goods to which this section does not apply shall be determined in accordance with the applicable rules in effect on July 20, 1994. SEC. 336. EFFECTIVE DATE. 19 USC 3591 Except as provided in section 334, this subtitie and the amendments made by this subtitle take effect on the date on which the WTO Agreement enters into force with respect to the United States. Subtitle E—Government Procurement SEC. 341. MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 305(f)(2) of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2515(f>(2)) is amended—

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