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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release November 7, 1996

      TO EXTEND NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT (MOST-FAVORED-NATION
                TREATMENT) TO THE PRODUCTS OF ROMANIA
  
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           BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
                            A PROCLAMATION

Pursuant to section 2 of Public Law 104-171, and having due regard for the findings of the Congress in section 1 of said Law, I hereby determine that Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431-2441), should no longer apply to Romania.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 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 section 2 of Public Law 104-171, do proclaim that:

(1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) shall be extended to the products of Romania, which will no longer be subject to Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974.

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of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

(3) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of Romania shall be effective as of the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-first.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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