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 123STA T . 3 68 3 PROCL A M AT I O N 8 405— A UG .31 , 200 91 1 .Inorde r t o mai ntain t h e g enera l le v elo f re c i p rocal and m u tuall y advantageou s concessions w ith respect to agricultural trade with Israel , on J uly 27 ,2 0 0 4, the U nited S tates entered into an agreement with Israel concerning certain aspects of trade in agricultural products dur - ing the period January 1, 2004, through D ecem b er 3 1, 200 8( the ‘ ‘2004 A greement ’ ’ ) . O n December 10, 2008, the United States entered into an agreement with Israel to e x tend the 2004 Agreement through December 31, 200 9, in order to allow for additional time to negotiate a successor arrangement to the 2004 Agreement. 12. In P residential Proclamation 782 6 of October 4, 2004, consistent with the 2004 Agreement, the President determined, pursuant to sec- tion 4(b) of the USI FT A Act, that it was necessary in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by the USIFTA, to provide duty-free access into the United States through December 31, 2008, for specified q uantities of certain agricultural products of Israel. 13. In Presidential Proclamation 8334 of December 31, 2008, the Presi- dent determined that it was necessary in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with re- spect to Israel provided for by the USIFTA to extend such duty-free treatment through December 31, 2009. I have determined that a modi- fication to the H TS is necessary to provide the intended tariff treat- ment. 14. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’) (19 U.S. C . 2483), authori z es the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other Acts, affecting im- port treatment, and actions thereunder, including the removal, modi- fication, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction. Section 1206(c) of the 1988 Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 3006(c)), provides that any modifications proclaimed by the President under section 1206(a) of that Act may not ta k e effect before the thir- tieth day after the date on which the text of the proclamation is pub- lished in the Fed e ralR e gist er. N O W ,TH ER EFORE, I, B ARAC K OBA M A, 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 of America, including but not limited to section 1206(a) of the 1988 Act, section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, section 4(b) of the USIFTA Implementa- tion Act, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that (1) In order to reflect in the HTS the modifications to the rules of origin under the NAFTA, general note 12 to the HTS is modified as provided in Annexes I and II of Publication 409 5 of the United States Inter- national Trade Commission entitled, ‘‘Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to Ad j ust Rules of Origin Under the North American Free Trade Agreement,’’ which is incorporated by reference into this proclamation. (2) In order to make technical corrections to the HTS necessary to con- form it to the Convention, the HTS is modified as provided in Annex III of Publication 4095. (3) In order to provide the intended duty treatment under the 2004 Agreement as extended through December 31, 2009, the HTS is modi- fied as provided in Annex I V of Publication 4095.