July 1, 1985
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of
America, including Title V of the Trade Act of 1974 (the Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.), as
amended, section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 503(a)(2)(A) of the Trade
Agreements Act of 1979 (93 Stat. 251), and as President of the United States of America, in
order to designate, as provided by section 504(c)(6) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)(6)),
those countries that will be considered to be least-developed beneficiary developing countries not
subject to the limitations on preferential treatment of eligible articles for purposes of the
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), after taking into account the considerations in sections
501 and 502(c) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2461 and 2462(c)); and to modify as provided by
sections 504 (a) and (c) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(a) and (c)) the limitations on
preferential treatment of eligible articles from countries designated as beneficiary developing
countries, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. In order to designate the countries that will be considered to be least-developed
beneficiary developing countries, general headnote 3(c) of the Tariff Schedules of the United
States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) is modified by adding the following new paragraph 3(c)(iv):
``(iv) The following beneficiary countries are designated as least-developed beneficiary developing
countries pursuant to section 504(c)(6) of the Trade Act of 1974:
Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Djibouti Equatorial
Guinea Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Lesotho Malawi Maldives Mali Nepal Niger Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Western Samoa Yemen Arab Republic (Sanaa)
Whenever an eligible article is imported into the customs territory of the United States directly
from one of the countries designated as a least-developed beneficiary developing country, it shall
be entitled to receive the duty-free treatment provided for in subdivision (c)(ii) of this headnote
without regard to the limitations on preferential treatment of eligible articles in section 504(c) of
the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)).''
Sec. 2. Annex II of Executive Order No. 11888 of November 24, 1975, as amended, listing
articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP when imported from any designated beneficiary
developing country, is further amended by inserting in numerical sequence ``734.56''.
Sec. 3. Annex III of Executive Order No. 11888, as amended, listing articles that are eligible for
benefits of the GSP when imported from all designated beneficiary countries except those
specified in general headnote 3(c)(iii) of the TSUS, is further amended by striking out
``734.56''.
Sec. 4. General headnote 3(c)(iii) of the TSUS, listing articles that are eligible for benefits of the
GSP except when imported from the beneficiary countries listed opposite those articles, is
modified by striking out ``734.56 . . . Haiti''.
Sec. 5. The amendments made by this Order shall be effective with respect to articles both: (1)
imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (2) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after July 4, 1985.
Ronald Reagan
The White House,
July 1, 1985.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:08 a.m., July 2, 1985]