| Title: | PROCEDURE: TP: GSP CHANGES |
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| Date: | 2000-12-19 |
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TO: ALL ABI BROKERS.
FROM: DIXIE LEE
SUBJECT: PROCEDURE: TP: GSP CHANGES
DATE: 12/15/2000
DECEMBER 12,2000
ENT-8 FO:TP:IA:TA
TO: DIRECTORS, FIELD OPERATIONS
PORT DIRECTORS
ASSISTANT PORT DIRECTORS, TRADE
FROM: DIRECTOR, TRADE PROGRAMS
SUBJECT: EFFECT OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7383 ON THE
GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (GSP)
PASS TO: IMPORT SPECIALISTS, ENTRY SPECIALISTS AND OTHER INTERESTED
PARTIES SUCH AS BROKERS AND IMPORTERS
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7383, OF DECEMBER 1, 2000, PUBLISHED IN
THE FEDERAL REGISTER ON DECEMBER 6, 2000 (65 FR 76551), MODIFIES THE
DUTY-FREE TREATMENT UNDER GSP FOR CERTAIN COMMODITIES AND COUNTRIES
DESIGNATED AS BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
GENERAL NOTE 4(A) OF THE HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED
STATES (HTS) IS MODIFIED BY STRIKING "WESTERN SAMOA", WHICH WAS
PREVIOUSLY DESIGNATED AS A BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING COUNTRY, AND
INSERTING "SAMOA" IN PROPER ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 5, 2001, GENERAL NOTE 4(B)(I) WILL BE MODIFIED
INCLUDE SAMOA AS A LEAST-DEVELOPED BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING COUNTRY
FOR PURPOSES OF GSP.
THE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ALSO RESTORES GSP ELIGIBILITY TO
CERTAIN HANDLOOMED COTTON FABRICS IMPORTED FROM INDIA, WHICH HAD
BEEN SUSPENDED FROM GSP ELIGIBILITY SINCE 1992. THE TEXT OF THE
PROCLAMATION RELATING TO THOSE FABRICS READS AS FOLLOWS:
"EFFECTIVE WITH RESPECT TO GOODS ENTERED, OR WITHDRAWN FROM
WAREHOUSE FOR CONSUMPTION, ON OR AFTER THE DATE OF SIGNATURE OF
THIS PROCLAMATION (DECEMBER 1, 2000), THE HTS IS FURTHER MODIFIED
AS FOLLOWS:
(1) GENERAL NOTE 4(D) TO THE HTS IS MODIFIED BY STRIKING THE
FOLLOWING HTS SUBHEADINGS AND THE COUNTRY LISTED OPPOSITE
THEM:
5208.31.20 INDIA 5208.52.10 INDIA
5208.32.10 INDIA 5209.31.30 INDIA
5208.41.20 INDIA 5209.41.30 INDIA
5208.42.10 INDIA 5310.90.00 INDIA
5208.51.20 INDIA
(2) EACH OF THE FOLLOWING HTS SUBHEADINGS IS MODIFIED BY
STRIKING, FROM THE PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION IN THE RATE OF
DUTY 1 - SPECIAL SUBCOLUMN, THE SYMBOL "A*," AND BY INSERTING
IN LIEU THEREOF "A,":
5208.31.20 5208.42.10 5209.31.30
5208.32.10 5208.51.20 5209.41.30
5208.41.20 5208.52.10 5310.90.00"
QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NOTICE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO DIXIE STAPLE
TRADE AGREEMENTS BRANCH, AT (202) 927-1131.
/S/
GREGORY J. MCCANN FOR
ELIZABETH G. DURANT
CC: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FIELD OPERATIONS