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 12 2 STA T .54 1 6PROCL A M AT I O N83 32 —DE C.2 9, 2 0 08 ap p rovedth e Ag ree m e n t i n s e c tion 10 1 ( a ) o f the U nited S tates -O man F ree T rade Agreement I mp l ementation Act (the ‘ ‘Implementation Act ’ ’) ( Pub lic L a w 10 9–283, 120 Stat . 1191) (19 U.S. C . 380 5 note). 2. Section 105(a) of the Implementation Act authori z es the President to establish or designate within the D epartment of Commerce an office that shall be responsible for providing administrative assistance to pan- els established under chapter 20 of the Agreement. 3. Section 201 of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications or continuation of an y duty, such con- tinuation of duty-free or e x cise treatment, or such additional duties, as the President determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out or apply Articles 2.3, 2.5, 2. 6, 3.2.8, and 3.2.9, and the schedule of duty reductions with respect to Oman set forth in Annex 2– B of the Agree- ment. 4 . Consistent with section 201(a)(2) of the Implementation Act, Oman is to be removed from the enumeration of designated beneficiary devel- oping countries eligible for the benefits of the G eneralized System of Preferences (GSP) on the date the Agreement entered into force. Fur- ther, consistent with section 604 of the Trade Act of 19 7 4, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2483), I have determined that other tech- nical and conforming changes to the H armonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) are necessary to reflect that Oman is no longer eligible to receive the benefits of the GSP. 5. Section 202 of the Implementation Act sets forth certain rules for de- termining whether a good is an originating good for the purpose of im- plementing preferential tariff treatment provided for under the Agree- ment. I have decided that it is necessary to include these rules of ori- gin, together with particular rules applicable to certain other goods, in the HTS. 6. Section 204 of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to ta k e certain enforcement actions relating to trade with Oman in textile and apparel goods. 7. Subtitle B of title III of the Implementation Act authorizes the Presi- dent to take certain actions in response to a re q uest by an interested party for relief from serious damage or actual threat thereof to a domes- tic industry producing certain textile or apparel articles. 8. E xecutive Order 11651 of M arch 3, 1972, as amended, established the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA), consisting of representatives of the Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce and Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade R ep- resentative, with the representative of the Department of Commerce as Chairman, to supervise the implementation of textile trade agreements. Consistent with section 301 of title 3, United States Code, when car- rying out functions vested in the President by statute and assigned by the President to CITA, the officials collectively exercising those func- tions are all to be officers required to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. 9. Section 604 of the 1974 Act, as amended, authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or other Acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken there- under, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction.

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