Proclamation 6244—To Amend the Generalized System of Preferences

1. In Proclamation 5758 of December 24, 1987, the President determined, pursuant to sections 502(b)(7), 502(c)(7), and 504 of th,e Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the 1974 Act) (b)(7), 2462(c)(7), 2462(c)(7), and 2464), that it was appropriate to provide for the suspension of preferential treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for articles that are eligible for such treatment and that are imported from Ghile. Such suspension was the result of a Presidential determination that Chile had not taken and was not taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights, as defined in section 502(a)(4) of the 1974 Act (a)(4)).

2. After a review of the current situation in Chile, I have determined that Chile has taken or is taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights, as defined in section 502(a)(4) of the 1974 Act. Further, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the 1974 Act and 2462), and after taking into account the factors set forth in such sections, I have determined that it is appropriate to terminate the suspension of preferential treatment under the GSP for articles that are currently eligible for such treatment and that are imported from Chile and to redesignate Chile as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP.

3. Pursuant to section 504 of the 1974 Act the President may 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 1974 Act and 2462(c)). I have determined, pursuant to section 504(a) of the 1974 Act, the Chile should not receive preferential tariff treatment under the GSP with respect to certain eligible articles.

4. Section 604 of the 1974 Act authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder.

Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including but not limited to sections 501, 502, 504, and 604 of the Act, do proclaim that:

(1) In order to redesignate as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP, general not 3(c)(ii)(A) to the HTS, listing those countries whose products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is modified by inserting in alphabetical order in the list of independent countries "Chile".

(2) In order to provide that Chile should not be treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to certain eligible articles for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special subcolumn for each of the HTS provisions enumerated in section A of the Annex to this proclamation is modified by deleting from such subcolumn for such HTS provisions the symbol "A" in parentheses, and by inserting the symbol "A*" in lieu thereof.

(3) In order to provide that Chile should not be treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to certain eligible articlefs for purposes of the GSP, general not 3(c)(ii)(D) to the HTS is modified as provided in section B of the Annex to this proclamation.

(4) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby susperseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

(5) The amendments made by this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse foir consumption, on or after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.

GEORGE BUSH