CSMS Message: 00-000789

0202071

JULY 20, 2000

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TO: DIRECTORS, FIELD OPERATIONS
PORT DIRECTORS
ASSISTANT PORT DIRECTORS, TRADE

FROM: DIRECTOR, TRADE PROGRAMS

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

SUBJECT: PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS FOR ALBANIA AND KYRGYZSTAN

BACKGROUND: SECTIONS 301 AND 302 OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF
2000 (P.L. 106-200) PROVIDED THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY DETERMINE THAT TITLE
IV OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 SHOULD NO LONGER APPLY TO ALBANIA AND
KYRGYZSTAN, RESPECTIVELY, AND AFTER MAKING SUCH A DETERMINATION,
PROCLAIM THE EXTENSION OF NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT (NORMAL TRADE
RELATIONS TREATMENT) TO PRODUCTS OF THOSE COUNTRIES.

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7326, OF JUNE 29, 2000, PUBLISHED IN THE
FEDERAL REGISTER OF JULY 5, 2000 (65 FR 41547) DETERMINED THAT TITLE IV
OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 SHOULD NO LONGER APPLY TO ALBANIA AND
KYRGYZSTAN, AND AFFORDED NONDISCRIMINATORY (NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS)
TREATMENT TO PRODUCTS OF THOSE COUNTRIES.

ACTION: BOTH ALBANIA AND KYRGYZSTAN HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ENTITLED TO
PROVISIONAL NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS TREATMENT PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL
PROCLAMATION. AS SUCH, NO CHANGE IN CUSTOMS PROCESSING WILL BE REQUIRED
FOR ENTRIES OF MERCHANDISE FROM THOSE COUNTRIES. BOTH COUNTRIES REMAIN
ELIGIBLE FOR PREFERENTIAL TARIFF TREATMENT UNDER THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM
OF PREFERENCES.

/S/
ELIZABETH G. DURANT

CC: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FIELD OPERATIONS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FIELD PROGRAMS