Implementing Rules for the North American Free Trade Agreement

概要

The Commission is amending its rules of practice and procedure to conform with the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Pub. L. 103-182, 107 Stat. 2057 (December 8, 1993) (``NAFTA Implementation Act''). In particular, these interim regulations implement title III of the NAFTA Implementation Act, which provides for special safeguard investigations and determinations with respect to Canadian and Mexican articles during the transition period for tariff elimination under the North American Free Trade Agreement (``NAFTA''), provide for certain findings with respect to Canadian and Mexican articles in the course of an investigation under section 202 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252), make certain conforming changes to section 202 of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to treatment of confidential business information, and direct the Commission to ``adopt such procedures and rules and regulations as are necessary to bring its procedures into conformity with chapter 8 of the Agreement.'' These interim regulations also implement title IV of the NAFTA Implementation Act, which provides for issuance of administrative protective orders for information required to be r