CSMS Message: 00-000076

TO: ALL ABI BROKERS.

FROM: HQ, OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS

SUBJECT: GSP-SOUTH AFRICAN ARTICLES

DATE: 02/07/2000
DATE: 12/29/1999

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1999

0363072

FO:TP:IA JAP

TO : DIRECTORS, FIELD OPERATIONS AND PORT DIRECTORS

FROM : DIRECTOR, TRADE PROGRAMS

PASS TO: NATIONAL IMPORT SPECIALISTS, IMPORT AND ENTRY
SPECIALISTS, INSPECTORS, BROKERS, IMPORTERS AND
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES

SUBJECT: IMPLEMENTATION AND RESTORATION OF PREFERENTIAL
TARIFF TREATMENT UNDER THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF
PREFERENCES (GSP) FOR CERTAIN ARTICLES FROM SOUTH
AFRICA

ANNEX IV TO PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7107, DATED JUNE 30, 1998
(63 FR 36531), PROCLAIMED, IN RELEVANT PART, THE GRANTING OR
RESTORATION OF GSP PREFERENTIAL TARIFF TREATMENT WITH RESPECT TO
CERTAIN ARTICLES OF SOUTH AFRICAN ORIGIN. THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THE ACTIONS DESCRIBED IN ANNEX IV WOULD BE ON OR AFTER A DATE
ANNOUNCED IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER BY THE UNITED STATES TRADE
REPRESENTATIVE (USTR).

PURSUANT TO USTR'S FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE DATED, THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 23, 1999, VOL. 64, NO. 246, PAGES 72138 - 72139, THE
FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS, NOTED IN THE ANNEX BELOW, ARE TO BE
MADE TO THE HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED STATES
(HTSUS) WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN ARTICLES OF SOUTH AFRICAN
ORIGIN, EFFECTIVE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1999. THE AUTOMATED
COMMERCIAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN UPDATED.

ANNEX

SECTION A. GENERAL NOTE 4(D) TO THE HTSUS IS MODIFIED BY
DELETING THE COUNTRY SET OUT OPPOSITE THE FOLLOWING HTSUS
SUBHEADING:

2849.90.50 SOUTH AFRICA

SECTION B. MODIFICATIONS TO THE HTSUS OF AN ARTICLE'S
PREFERENTIAL TARIFF TREATMENT UNDER THE GSP.

FOR THE FOLLOWING HTSUS SUBHEADINGS, THE RATES OF DUTY 1-SPECIAL
SUBCOLUMN IS MODIFIED BY DELETING THE SYMBOL "A+," IN THE
PARENTHESES FOLLOWING THE "FREE" RATE AND BY INSERTING THE
SYMBOL "A," IN LIEU THEREOF.

7108.12.50
7108.13.70

QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NOTICE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO LEON
HAYWARD, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS, AT (202) 927-9704.

ELIZABETH G. DURANT
/S/