Proclamation 5758 --
Amending the Generalized System of Preferences
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
1.
Pursuant to subsections 502(b)(7), 502(c)(7), and
sections 504 and 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Trade Act) (19
U.S.C. 2462, 2464 and 2483), I have determined that it is appropriate to
provide for the suspension of preferential treatment under the Generalized
System of Preferences (GSP) for articles that are currently eligible for such
treatment and that are imported from Chile. Such suspension is the result of my
determination that Chile has not taken and is not taking steps to afford
internationally recognized worker rights, as defined in section 502(a)(4) of
the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2462(a)(4)).
2.
Subsections 502 (b)(7) and (c)(7) of the Trade Act provide that a country that
has not taken or is not taking steps to afford such internationally recognized
worker rights is ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country
for purposes of the GSP. Section 504 authorizes the President to withdraw,
suspend, or limit the application of duty-free treatment under the GSP with
respect to any article or with respect to any country upon consideration of the
factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2461
and 2462(c)).
3.
Section 604 of the Trade Act authorizes the President to embody in the Tariff
Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) the substance of the
relevant provisions of that Act, of other acts affecting import treatment, and
of actions taken thereunder.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
(1)
General headnote 3(e)(v)(A)
to the TSUS is modified by striking out ``
(2)
No article the product of
(3)
This Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after
the sixtieth (60th) day following the date of the publication of this
Proclamation in the Federal Register.
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of Dec., in the year
of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
[Filed with the Office
of the Federal Register,