CSMS Message: 97-000365

TO : ALL ABI BROKERS.

FROM : MARSHA MALBROUGH

SUBJECT : PROCLAMATION 6982

DATE : 04/10/97

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APRIL 10, 1997

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TO : BULLETIN BOARD OTO5, BROKERS

FROM : CARGO CONTROL AND ENTRY
OFFICE OF TRADE COMPLIANCE

SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION 6982 - TO IMPLEMENT AN AGREEMENT TO
ELIMINATE TARIFFS ON CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICALS AND
CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES

ON DECEMBER 13, 1996, AN AGREEMENT WAS REACHED TO ELIMINATE
TARIFFS ON CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICALS AND CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES
THAT WERE THE SUBJECT OF RECIPROCAL DUTY ELIMINATION NEGOTIATIONS
DURING THE URUGUAY ROUND. IT WAS AGREED THAT THE AGREEMENT ON
PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS ERRONEOUSLY INCLUDED 25 PRODUCTS.
THEREFORE, PURSUANT TO SECTION 111(B) OF THE URAA, THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES HAS DETERMINED THAT MODIFICATIONS TO
SCHEDULE XX ARE NECESSARY AND THAT SCHEDULE XX SHOULD BE MODIFIED
ACCORDINGLY. IN ADDITION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO MODIFY THE
HTS TO IMPLEMENT THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON PHARMACEUTICALS
NEGOTIATED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WTO.

THE PRESIDENT HAS ALSO DETERMINED THAT IT IS NECESSARY OR
APPROPRIATE TO MODIFY THE HTS TO INCREASE TARIFFS ON PRODUCTS
THAT WERE INCLUDED ERRONEOUSLY IN THE PHARMACEUTICALS AGREEMENT
REACHED AT THE END OF THE URUGUAY ROUND. IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT
THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
WTO TO ELIMINATE TARIFFS ON CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS AND
CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES, AND TO CORRECT ERRORS, SCHEDULE XX AND
THE PHARMACEUTICAL APPENDIX TO THE HTS ARE MODIFIED AS SET FORTH
IN THE ANNEX TO THE PROCLAMATION.

THE MODIFICATIONS TO THE HTS SET FORTH IN THIS PROCLAMATION SHALL
BE EFFECTIVE WITH RESPECT TO GOODS ENTERED, OR WITHDRAWN FROM
WAREHOUSE FOR CONSUMPTION, ON OR AFTER THE DATE OF SIGNATURE,
WHICH IS APRIL 1, 1997.

ANY PROVISIONS OF PREVIOUS PROCLAMATIONS AND EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT
ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE ACTIONS TAKEN IN PROCLAMATION 6982 ARE
SUPERSEDED TO THE EXTENT OF SUCH INCONSISTENCY.

PROCLAMATION 6982 HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER VOL.
62, NO. 64 DATED THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1997. PLEASE NOTE THAT
BECAUSE OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH UPLOADING THE
ANNEX PORTION OF THE PROCLAMATION TO THE MAINFRAME, THE ANNEX
WILL BE AVAILABLE VIA THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES:

O THE CUSTOMS ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD (CEBB), AND
O THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE WEB SITE
HTTP://WWW.CUSTOMS.USTREAS.GOV.

PROCLAMATION 6982 IS PRESENTLY AVAILABLE ON THE CEBB, HOWEVER,
FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO ACCESS THE WEB SITE, THE INFORMATION SHOULD
BE POSTED TO THE MAIN SITE NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1997.

THOSE WHO WISH TO HAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT FAXED, PLEASE
CONTACT MS. MICHELLE MADDEN AT (202) 927-0380. ALL QUESTIONS
SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO MS. MARSHA MALBROUGH AT (202) 927-0457/

THOMAS P. BANNER
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