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 118 STAT. 4189 PROCLAMATION 7826—OCT. 4, 2004 provisions in the FTA governing access for United States agricultural products to Israel’s market. 3. Section 4(b) of the FTA Act provides that, whenever the President determines that it is necessary to maintain the general level of recip- rocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by the FTA, the President may proclaim such withdrawal, suspension, modification, or continuance of any duty, or such continu- ance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or such additional duties as the President determines to be required or appropriate to carry out the FTA. 4. Pursuant to section 4(b) of the FTA Act, I have determined that it is necessary, in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel, to provide through the close of December 31, 2008, access into the United States customs territory for specified quantities of certain agricultural prod- ucts of Israel free of duty or certain fees or other import charges. 5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2483) (the ‘‘Trade Act’’;) authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of the relevant pro- visions of that act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and ac- tions thereunder, including removal, modification, continuance, or im- position of any rate of duty or other import restriction. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Con- stitution and the laws of the United States, including section 4 of the FTA Act and section 604 of the Trade Act, do hereby proclaim: (1) In order to implement aspects of the 2004 Agreement with the Government of Israel, concerning certain aspects of trade in agricul- tural products, the HTS is modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation. (2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive Orders that are inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation are su- perseded to the extent of such inconsistency. (3) The modifications to the HTS made by the Annex to this procla- mation shall be effective with respect to goods that are the product of Israel and are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 2004, and the tariff treatment set forth therein shall be effective as provided in such Annex through December 31, 2008. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the Inde- pendence of the United States of America the two hundred and twen- ty-ninth. GEORGE W. BUSH VerDate 11-MAY-2000 15:04 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00155 Fmt 8087 Sfmt 8087 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.004 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4

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