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48 Cust. B. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.usfed/cusbul0085 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Customs and Border Protection 19 CFR Parts 10, 163, and 178 CBP Dec. 14-07 AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (AGOA) AND GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES AND TRADE BENEFITS UNDER AGOA RIN 1515-AD47 (former RIN 1505-AB26) and RIN 1515-AD50 (former RIN 1505-AB38) AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Department of the Treasury. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This document adopts as a final rule, with some changes, interim amendments to the U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection (CBP) regulations which were published in the Federal Reg- ister on October 5, 2000, as T.D. 00-67, and later amended by T.D. 03-15 published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2003, to implement the trade benefit provisions for sub-Saharan Africa con- tained in Title I of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, as amended. The trade benefits under Title I, also referred to as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), apply to sub-Saharan African countries designated by the President and involve: The ex- tension of duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Pref- erences (GSP) to non-textile articles normally excluded from GSP duty-free treatment that are not import-sensitive; and the entry of specific textile and apparel articles free of duty and free of any quantitative limits. The regulatory amendments adopted as a final rule in this docu- ment reflect and clarify the statutory standards for preferential tariff treatment under the AGOA, as amended by section 3108 of the Trade Act of 2002 and include other amendments necessitated by passage of the AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004 and the Africa Investment Incen- tive Act of 2006. This final rule includes specific documentary, proce- dural and other related requirements that must be met in order to obtain preferential treatment. This document also adopts as a final rule interim amendments to the CBP regulations implementing the 1

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