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PROCLAMATION 7870—FEB. 9, 2005

records to prosecutors seeking to shut down those who steal our citizens’ good names. Consumers can learn to prevent identity theft by visiting the National Consumer Protection Week website, www.consumer.gov/ncpw. Working together, we can reduce this growing problem and protect the financial security of our citizens and our Nation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 6 through February 12, 2005, as National Consumer Protection Week. I call upon government officials, industry leaders, and consumer advocates to provide citizens with information about identity theft and how they can be responsible consumers, and I encourage all citizens to take an active role in protecting their personal information. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-ninth. GEORGE W. BUSH

Proclamation 7870 of February 9, 2005

To Modify Rules of Origin Under the North American Free Trade Agreement By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Presidential Proclamation 6641 of December 15, 1993, implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (the ‘‘NAFTA’’;) with respect to the United States and, pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the ‘‘NAFTA Implementation Act’’;), incorporated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (the ‘‘HTS’’;) the tariff modifications and rules of origin necessary or appropriate to carry out the NAFTA. 2. Section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act provides rules for determining whether goods imported into the United States originate in the territory of a NAFTA party and thus are eligible for the tariff and other treatment contemplated under the NAFTA. Section 202(q) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3332(q)) authorizes the President to proclaim, as a part of the HTS, the rules of origin set out in the NAFTA and to proclaim modifications to such previously proclaimed rules of origin, subject to the consultation and layover requirements of section 103(a) of the NAFTA Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3313(a)). 3. I have determined that the modifications to the HTS set out in the Annex to this proclamation are appropriate. For goods of Mexico, I have decided that the effective date of the modifications shall be determined by the United States Trade Representative (USTR). 4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’;) (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the

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