Proclamation 5799.

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102 STAT. 4992 Proclamation 5799 of April 20, 1988 Law Day, U.S.A., 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation For more than three decades our country has observed May 1 as Law Day, U.S.A., in grateful recognition that our free Republic is a government of laws, not men. On Law Day, U.S.A., we join in proud commemoration of America’s legacy of liberty, justice, and self-government, and we pause to salute those past and present who have served and sacrificed to win and protect our freedom and to preserve law and tranquility in our communities—including the men and women of law enforcement whose daily courage and dedication make our laws and liberties a living reality.

Because ours is a government by consent of the people, we are our own lawgivers; hence, the virtuousness of our laws depends on our individual and civic virtues. That is truly something to remember on any Law Day, U.S.A., but especially in a national election year, when we recall how important it is that each of us be familiar with our rights and liberties and with the legal and political guarantees of our freedoms. Only through knowledge, awareness, and love of country can we take full part in the self-government that is ours as Americans to perpetuate.

This is why all Americans of legal voting age should make up their minds, this year and each year, to vote in every election for which they are eligible and to observe all election laws faithfully. By voting, we have our say in who our representatives are and thereby in the shaping of laws that affect us, our communities, our States, and our Nation. We should always remember that those who vote not only demonstrate their voice in public affairs but also exercise one of the precious rights for which brave people around the globe today fight and die just as did our ancestors.

Let us understand that our voting is a way to keep faith with them, with our fellow citizens, with the brave Americans who defend us at home and abroad, and with all who cherish our American heritage of liberty, justice, and equality before the law. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, in accordance with Public Law 87–20 of April 7, 1961, do hereby proclaim Sunday, May 1, 1988, as Law Day, U.S.A. I urge the people of the United States to use this occasion to reflect on our birthright of freedm, to express gratitude to those who protect our country and our communities, to familiarize themselves with the need to vote, and to encourage and assist others to vote.

I ask the legal profession, schools, public bodies, libraries, courts, the communications media, businesses, the clergy, civic, service, and fraternal organizations, and all interested individuals and organizations to join in efforts to focus attention on voting. I also call upon all public officials to display the flag of the United States on all government buildings on Law Day, U.S.A. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of 102 STAT. 4993the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.

RONALD REAGAN 5800 April 21, 1988 National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5800 of April 21, 1988 National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The generosity for which the American people have always been known shines clearly today in the willingness of many people to become organ and tissue donors so that others might live or have an opportunity to enjoy a fuller life.

Thousands of Americans will receive an extraordinary gift this year—a kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, a combination of heart and lung, skin, a cornea, bone, or bone marrow. The great majority of these gifts will have been possible only because a caring American agreed to donate an organ or tissue for transplantation. We can all take pride in this generosity; yet the need for additional transplants remains great. Thousands of Americans will wait this year for a well-matched organ or tissue to become available.

For some, no donor may be found. The decision to volunteer as an organ donor is a significant act of personal sacrifice. Fortunately, knowledge about organ donorship has spread in recent years. Groups in our communities stand ready to answer questions about organ and tissue donation. The American Council on Transplantation and school, church, and community groups are involved. Many States give people the chance to sign donor authorization cards when they complete their driver’s license forms.

Others require hospitals to offer people the opportunity to donate under appropriate circumstances. Encouragement of organ and tissue donation must always be accompanied, of course, by thorough reflection and complete information. Recent medical and technological developments are posing new moral and ethical questions about transplantation in certain circumstances. Individuals, and society as a whole, must carefully consider these questions so that we never undercut our reverence for the sanctity God vests equally in the life of every person, from the moment of conception until natural death.

The Congress, by Public Law 100–273, has designated the week of April 24 through April 30, 1988, as “National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week” and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion. NOW, THEREFORE. I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of April 24 through April 30, 1988, as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. I ask health care professionals, public and private service organizations, and all Americans to join in supporting this humanitarian cause. 102 STAT. 4994 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.

RONALD REAGAN 5801 April 26, 1988 Mother’s Day, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5801 of April 26, 1988 Mother’s Day, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Maternal love is the first tangible bond any human being knows. It is a tie at once physical, emotional, psychological, and mystical. With all of the words that have been written about motherhood, all of the poems of tribute and gratitude that have been penned through the ages, all of the portraits of mother and child that have been painted down the centuries, none has come close to expressing in full the thankfulness and joy owing to mothers.

The mark of motherhood, as the story of Solomon and the disputed infant in the first Book of Kings shows, is a devotion to the well-being of the child so total that it overlooks itself and its own preferences and needs. It is a love that risks all, bears all, braves all. As it heals and strengthens and inspires in its objects an understanding of self-sacrifice and devotion, it is the parent of many another love as well. The arms of a mother are the newborn’s first cradle and the injured child’s first refuge.

The hands of a mother are the hands of care for the child who is near and of prayer for the one who is far away. The eyes of a mother are the eyes of fond surprise at baby’s first step, the eyes of unspoken worry at the young adult’s first voyage from home, the eyes of gladness at every call or visit that says she is honored and remembered. The heart of a mother is a heart that is always full. Generation after generation has measured love by the work and wonder of motherhood.

For these gifts, ever ancient and ever new, we cannot pause too often to give thanks to mothers. As inadequate as our homage may be and as short as a single day is to express it—”What possible comparison was there,” a great saint wrote of his mother, “between the honor I showed her and the service she had rendered me?”—Mother’s Day affords us an opportunity to meet one of life’s happiest duties. In recognition of the contributions of mothers to their families and to our Nation, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 [38 Stat. 770], has designated the second Sunday in May each year as Mother’s Day and requested the President to call for its appropriate observance.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 8, 1988, be observed as Mother’s Day. I urge all Americans to express their love and respect for their mothers and to reflect on the importance of motherhood to the well-being of our country. I direct government officials to 102 STAT. 4995display the flag of the United States on all Federal government buildings, and I urge all citizens to display the flag at their homes and other suitable places on that day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5802 April 28, 1988 National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5802 of April 28, 1988 National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation All Americans have great reason to regret and to seek to repair the alarming incidence and prevalence of child abuse and neglect that continue throughout our country.

Each year many American children suffer child abuse, and every year many perish in these attacks. The incidence of child abuse and neglect cuts across every income level and geographic area in our land. This tragic situation is unacceptable—and preventable. Dedicated individuals, private and civic groups, and government bodies are doing much to protect children, but, unfortunately, much remains to be achieved. Caring for children is, of course, the responsibility of parents; but neighbors, relatives, and friends must help protect children when parents or others attack or neglect them.

We will truly prevent child abuse and protect our youngsters only to the extent that we cherish children as gifts from our Creator; foster deep and abiding reverence for the innocence and the God-given individual dignity and worth of every child; and treasure the sanctity of every human life. It is in this spirit that we must assure America’s children a loving, safe, and healthful environment. The members of professions, such as law enforcement, social work, church, medicine, mental health, and education, must continue to do their part, as must concerned individuals.

Let all Americans reflect on our obligation to children and to families, and then let us put our compassion into action. The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 246, has designated April 1988 as “National Child Abuse Prevention Month” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 1988 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

As we observe this time, let us all consider our responsibility for the wholesome and secure development of our children. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and 102 STAT. 4996eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5803 April 28, 1988 Loyalty Day, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5803 of April 28, 1988 Loyalty Day, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Loyalty Day, May 1, is a day we set aside to promise allegiance to our country; to revere our heritage of individual freedom, limited government, and respect for every man’s divinely bestowed dignity; and to reaffirm our sacred trust to preserve, for our children and for all generations to come, this blessed land of liberty we call America.

We Americans have both pledged and practiced loyalty from the moment the first patriots conceived the idea of a new and independent Nation where only freedom would reign—where people would live as free as God made them and where tyranny alone would never find welcome. We have given our loyalty generously, in times of peace and times of peril. That we will always do, God willing. Loyalty Day says much about the meaning of our country. In other parts of the world, as we know, totalitarian states proclaim May 1 a day of fealty and require a show of loyalty from the people.

No such demand is needed here, of course, because in America we are blessed to be able to govern ourselves; “We the People” are in charge, and we need give our loyalty not to self-appointed rulers but to liberty. The self-government that protects our rights and liberties has been won and defended in each generation by loyal Americans. That remains true, of course, of our gallant service men and women at home and in a hundred foreign climes. It is true as well of every American in home or office, in factory or farm, in hall of government or place of worship, who calls upon the Author of Liberty to guide and bless our land; of every citizen who cherishes brotherhood and patriotism; of every boy and girl who begins the day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

The allegiance we Americans owe, and give gladly, on Loyalty Day and throughout our lives, is to a land and an ideal that beckon human hearts today just as always, here and around the globe—the land of the free, where the only command and the only loyalty are freedom’s way and freedom’s sway. To foster loyalty and love of country, the Congress, by joint resolution approved July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369; 36 U.S.C. 162), has designated May 1 of each year as “Loyalty Day.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 1988, as Loyalty Day, and I call upon all Americans and patriotic, civic, fraternal, and educational organizations to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies.

I also call upon all government officials to display the flag of the United States on all government buildings and grounds on that day. 102 STAT. 4997 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5804 April 29, 1988 National Arbor Day, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5804 of April 29, 1988 National Arbor Day, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation “He who plants a tree / Plants a hope,” wrote Lucy Larcom years ago in her poem, “Plant a Tree”; that thought has surely motivated every American who has ever celebrated Arbor Day, given his neighborhood and Nation the lovely and lasting gift of trees, or sought to conserve our natural forest heritage.

In this spirit we can all join in observing an Arbor Day in which we resolve to renew and expand our knowledge of and appreciation for trees and our understanding of the importance of trees and forests to our country and to the entire world. In the last century, Americans began to realize the wisdom and the necessity of replenishing our supply of trees for their many natural benefits and so that our use of wood for fuel, lumber, and other products would not impoverish future generations.

The idea of Arbor Day caught the imagination of many people; for example, on the first Arbor Day, in Nebraska in 1872, citizens of that State planted a million trees, and they added about 350 million more in the next 16 years. This tradition continues, on Arbor Day and every day; we Americans have planted more trees each year for the last 6 years, and last year’s total acreage of trees planted was a record. Arbor Day remains a time for planting and caring for trees in our cities, towns, and countryside, and it should also remind us to learn more about trees and forests and how to protect them at home and guard against desertification and destruction abroad.

Our celebration of Arbor Day should always be tinged with the spirit that the 19th-century poet Henry Cuyler Bunner captured so well in “The Heart of the Tree”: What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants, in sap and leaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty And far-cast thought of civic good— His blessings on the neighborhood Who in the hollow of His hand Holds all the growth of all our land— A nation’s growth from sea to sea Stirs in his heart who plants a tree. The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 247, has recognized the last Friday of April 1988 as “National Arbor Day” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day. 102 STAT. 4998 NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday, April 29, 1988, as National Arbor Day.

I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5805 April 29, 1988 Amending the Generalized System of Preferences Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5805 of April 29, 1988 Amending the Generalized System of Preferences By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1.

Pursuant to subsections 501(1) and (4), 502(c)(2), and sections 504 and 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2461(1) and (4), 2462(c)(2), 2464, and 2483), I have determined that it is appropriate to terminate the preferential tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences

(GSP)for articles that are currently eligible for such treatment and that are imported from Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. I have determined that these countries are sufficiently advanced in economic development and improved in trade competitiveness that continued preferential treatment under the GSP is not warranted. 2. Subsections 501(1) and

(4)of the Trade Act provide that, in affording duty-free treatment under the GSP, the President shall have due regard for the effect such action will have on furthering the economic development of developing countries and the extent of the beneficiary developing country's competitiveness with respect to eligible articles. Subsection 502(c)(2) provides that, in determining whether to designate any country a beneficiary developing country under this section, the President shall take into account the level of economic development of such country. 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 to any country upon consideration of the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the Trade Act. 3. Pursuant to subsection 504(f) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2464(f)), I have determined that it is appropriate to terminate the preferential tariff treatment under the GSP for articles that are currently eligible for such treatment and that are imported from Bahrain, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, and Nauru. Such termination is the result of my determination that the per capita gross national product for each such country for calendar year 1985 (calculated on the basis of the best available information, including that of the World Bank) exceeds the applicable limit provided in subsection 504(f). 4. Subsection 504(f) provides that if the President determines that the per capita gross national product (calculated on the basis of the best available information, including that of the World Bank) for any beneficiary 102 STAT. 4999 country for a calendar year subsequent to 1984 exceeds the applicable limit for the determination year in question, such country shall not be treated as a beneficiary developing country under this Act after the close of a 2-year period. 5. Previously, two of these countries, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore, were designated as members of an association of countries treated as one country for purposes of section 503(b)(2) of the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2463(b)(2)). In order to take into account the termination of benefits under the GSP for articles imported from these two countries, I have determined that it is appropriate to terminate the designations of Brunei Darussalam and Singapore as members of ASEAN and to modify general headnote 3(e)(v)(A) to the Tariff Schedules of the United States

(TSUS)(19 U.S.C. 1202) to reflect such termination. Further, in order to reflect the termination of benefits under the GSP for articles imported from Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, I have determined that it is appropriate to delete from general headnote 3(e)(v)(D) to the TSUS and from the pertinent TSUS items all references to particular products of these countries which are currently excluded from preferential tariff treatment under the GSP. 6. Section 604 of the Trade Act authorizes the President to embody in the TSUS 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 United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the Trade Act, do proclaim that:

(1)General headnote 3(e)(v)(A) to the TSUS, setting forth those countries whose products are eligible for duty-free treatment under the GSP, is modified—

(a)by deleting “Bahrain”, “Brunei Darussalam”, and “Nauru” from the enumeration of independent countries, by deleting “Bermuda” from the enumeration of non-independent countries and territories, and by deleting “Brunei” from the enumeration of members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and by inserting “except Brunei Darussalam” after “Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)”; and

(b)by deleting “Korea, Republic of, “Singapore”, and “Taiwan” from the enumeration of independent countries and by deleting “Hong Kong” from the enumeration of non-independent countries and territories, by deleting “Singapore” from the enumeration of members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) except Brunei Darussalam, and by modifying “Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) except Brunei Darussalam” to read “Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) except Brunei Darussalam and Singapore”.

(2)No article the product of any such country and imported into the United States after the effective dates of this Proclamation shall be eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the GSP.

(3)General headnote 3(e)(v)(D) to the TSUS, listing those articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP except when imported from the beneficiary countries listed opposite the enumerated TSUS items for those articles, is modified as provided in Annex I to this Proclamation. 102 STAT. 5000

(4)The Rates of Duty Special column for each of the TSUS items enumerated in Annex II to this Proclamation is modified:

(a)by deleting from such column for such TSUS items the symbol “A*” in parentheses, and

(b)by inserting in such column the symbol “A” in lieu thereof. (4)(a) Paragraph (1)(a) of this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 1988.

(b)Paragraphs (1)(b), (3), and

(4)of this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 1989. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN ANNEX I Modifications to General Headnote 3(e)(v)(D) of the TSUS General headnote 3(e)(v)(D) is modified—

(a)by deleting the following TSUS item numbers and the countries set opposite these numbers: 202.66 Taiwan 610.86 Republic of Korea 652.24 Taiwan 204.40 Taiwan Taiwan 652.60 Taiwan 206.30 Taiwan 610.88 Taiwan 652.72 Republic of Korea 206.98 Taiwan 613.18 Taiwan Republic of Korea 207.09 Taiwan 642.14 Republic of Korea 653.00 Singapore 222.50 Taiwan 642.16 Republic of Korea 653.35 Taiwan 240.14 Taiwan 642.17 Republic of Korea Taiwan 256.60 Republic of Korea 642.19 Republic of Korea 653.37 Taiwan 337.40 Hong Kong 646.30 Republic of Korea 653.38 Taiwan Republic of Korea 646.32 Republic of Korea 653.39 Taiwan 355.81 Taiwan 646.65 Taiwan 653.45 Taiwan 386.14 Taiwan 646.72 Taiwan 653.48 Taiwan 389.61 Hong Kong 646.92 Taiwan 653.52 Taiwan Taiwan 646.95 Taiwan 653.90 Hong Kong 408.72 Republic of Korea 646.97 Taiwan 653.93 Taiwan Taiwan 647.03 Taiwan 653.94 Republic of Korea 413.24 Republic of Korea 647.05 Taiwan 653.96 Taiwan 416.45 Taiwan 648.80 Hong Kong 653.99 Taiwan 421.06 Taiwan Taiwan 654.00 Taiwan 439.50 Singapore 648.85 Taiwan 654.25 Taiwan 445.42 Taiwan 648.95 Taiwan 654.30 Republic of Korea 532.22 Republic of Korea 648.97 Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan 649.37 Taiwan 654.35 Taiwan 534.11 Taiwan 650.21 Taiwan 654.40 Taiwan 534.84 Taiwan 650.87 Hong Kong 654.45 Taiwan 534.91 Taiwan 650.89 Hong Kong 654.50 Taiwan 544.51 Taiwan Taiwan 654.60 Hong Kong 545.67 Taiwan 651.21 Taiwan Taiwan 545.87 Taiwan 651.31 Taiwan 654.65 Taiwan 547.37 Taiwan 651.37 Taiwan 654.75 Taiwan 610.65 Republic of Korea 651.46 Republic of Korea 657.24 Taiwan 610.70 Taiwan Taiwan 657.25 Taiwan 610.82 Republic of Korea 651.48 Taiwan 657.35 Taiwan Taiwan 651.49 Taiwan 657.40 Taiwan 651.55 Taiwan 652.03 Republic of Korea 102 STAT. 5001 657.80 Taiwan 685.31 Republic of Korea 732.62 Taiwan 660.97 Singapore Taiwan 734.10 Taiwan 661.09 Singapore 685.39 Hong Kong 734.15 Taiwan 661.35 Republic of Korea Republic of Korea 734.20 Taiwan Hong Kong Hong Kong 734.25 Hong Kong 661.94 Taiwan 685.40 Republic of Korea Republic of Korea 672.16 Taiwan Taiwan 734.77 Taiwan 674.31 Taiwan 685.65 Singapore Taiwan 674.34 Taiwan 685.73 Hong Kong 734.86 Taiwan 674.35 Taiwan 686.18 Taiwan 734.87 Taiwan 674.42 Taiwan 686.30 Taiwan 734.88 Taiwan 676.20 Taiwan 686.90 Republic of Korea 734.91 Republic of Korea Hong Kong 688.10 Taiwan 735.07 Republic of Korea 676.30 Republic of Korea 688.32 Republic of Korea 735.09 Taiwan Taiwan 688.34 Hong Kong Taiwan 680.14 Taiwan 688.41 Hong Kong 735.10 Taiwan 680.19 Taiwan Taiwan 735.11 Taiwan 680.25 Taiwan 692.60 Taiwan 735.12 Republic of Korea 680.62 Singapore 696.10 Taiwan 735.20 Taiwan 682.37 Taiwan 696.35 Taiwan Hong Kong 682.55 Singapore 696.40 Taiwan 737.14 Hong Kong 683.01 Republic of Korea 696.50 Republic of Korea 737.16 Hong Kong Taiwan 703.72 Taiwan 737.23 Republic of Korea 683.32 Hong Kong 705.82 Taiwan 737.30 Republic of Korea 683.70 Hong Kong 705.83 Taiwan 737.42 Taiwan Taiwan 706.45 Hong Kong 737.60 Taiwan 683.80 Hong Kong 706.61 Hong Kong 737.65 Hong Kong 684.10 Taiwan Taiwan 737.80 Taiwan 684.25 Republic of Korea 708.45 Taiwan 737.93 Hong Kong Singapore 708.47 Hong Kong 737.96 Hong Kong 684.35 Hong Kong 709.40 Hong Kong 737.98 Taiwan 684.48 Hong Kong 710.72 Taiwan Hong Kong Taiwan Hong Kong 740.12 Hong Kong 684.53 Taiwan 722.08 Republic of Korea 740.13 Taiwan 684.58 Republic of Korea Taiwan 740.39 Hong Kong Taiwan Hong Kong Republic of Korea 684.59 Hong Kong 722.11 Republic of Korea 740.41 Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Hong Kong 684.70 Republic of Korea 725.01 Republic of Korea 741.25 Hong Kong Taiwan 725.03 Republic of Korea 741.50 Taiwan 685.06 Taiwan 725.32 Taiwan 745.32 Taiwan Hong Kong 725.46 Republic of Korea 745.45 Taiwan 685.14 Republic of Korea Taiwan 745.70 Taiwan Taiwan 725.50 Taiwan 750.20 Taiwan Hong Kong 726.25 Taiwan 750.22 Hong Kong 685.16 Republic of Korea 727.11 Taiwan 750.40 Republic of Korea Taiwan 727.23 Taiwan 750.45 Taiwan 685.18 Republic of Korea 727.25 Taiwan Taiwan 685.22 Hong Kong 727.35 Taiwan 750.47 Taiwan Republic of Korea 727.41 Taiwan 750.65 Taiwan 685.25 Republic of Korea 727.47 Taiwan 750.70 Taiwan Taiwan 727.59 Taiwan 751.05 Taiwan Hong Kong 727.65 Taiwan 751.22 Hong Kong 685.28 Republic of Korea 727.70 Taiwan 755.25 Taiwan Taiwan 727.86 Taiwan 771.41 Taiwan 728.22 Taiwan 771.43 Taiwan 730.94 Republic of Korea 771.45 Taiwan 731.70 Taiwan 772.06 Hong Kong 732.52 Taiwan 772.16 Taiwan 732.60 Taiwan 102 STAT. 5002 772.20 Taiwan 774.50 Taiwan 790.39 Taiwan 772.35 Taiwan 774.51 Taiwan 790.55 Taiwan 772.60 Republic of Korea 774.53 Taiwan 790.60 Taiwan 772.80 Taiwan 774.56 Taiwan 790.70 Republic of Korea 772.95 Taiwan 774.58 Republic of Korea 791.15 Hong Kong 772.97 Taiwan Taiwan Republic of Korea 773.05 Taiwan 790.03 Taiwan 791.60 Taiwan 773.10 Taiwan 790.10 Taiwan 774.45 Hong Kong

(b)by deleting the following countries opposite the following TSUS items: 533.30 Republic of Korea 676.56 Republic of Korea 688.18 Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Hong Kong Hong Kong 545.53 Taiwan 688.42 Republic of Korea 678.50 Republic of Korea Taiwan 610.84 Republic of Korea Singapore Taiwan Taiwan 692.32 Republic of Korea Taiwan 654.08 Taiwan 682.60 Hong Kong Taiwan 724.45 Republic of Korea 661.06 Hong Kong Republic of Korea 727.29 Taiwan 727.39 Taiwan 685.33 Singapore 740.11 Hong Kong 664.10 Taiwan Taiwan 740.14 Hong Kong 740.15 Hong Kong 676.15 Republic of Korea 685.90 Taiwan Taiwan 688.12 Taiwan 772.51 Republic of Korea Hong Kong 688.17 Taiwan Taiwan ANNEX II Modifications in the TSUS of an Article's Preferential Tariff Treatment Designation under the GSP For the following TSUS items in the Rates of Duty Special column delete the symbol “A*” and insert an "A" in lieu thereof: 202.66 610.88 652.03 657.40 204.40 613.18 652.24 657.80 206.30 642.14 652.60 660.97 206.98 642.16 652.72 661.09 207.09 642.17 653.00 661.35 222.50 642.19 653.35 661.94 240.14 646.30 653.37 672.16 256.60 646.32 653.38 674.31 337.40 646.65 653.39 674.34 355.81 646.72 653.45 674.35 386.14 646.92 653.48 674.42 389.61 646.95 653.52 676.20 408.72 646.97 653.90 676.30 413.24 647.03 653.93 680.14 416.45 647.05 653.94 680.19 421.06 648.80 653.96 680.25 439.50 648.85 653.99 680.62 445.42 648.95 654.00 682.37 532.22 648.97 654.25 682.55 534,11 649.37 654.30 683.01 534.84 650.21 654.35 683.32 534.91 650.87 654.40 683.70 544.51 650.89 654.45 683.80 545.67 651.21 654.50 684.10 545.87 651.31 654.60 684.25 547.37 651.37 654.65 684.35 610.65 651.46 654.75 684.48 610.70 651.48 657.24 684.53 610.82 651.49 657.25 684.58 610.86 651.55 657.35 684.59 102 STAT. 5003 684.70 710.72 734.91 750.70 685.06 722.08 735.07 751.05 685.14 722.11 735.09 751.22 685.16 725.01 735.10 755.25 685.18 725.03 735.11 771.41 685.22 725.32 735.12 771.43 685.25 725.46 735.20 771.45 685.28 725.50 737.14 772.06 685.31 726.25 737.16 772.16 685.39 727.11 737.23 772.20 685.40 727.23 737.30 772.35 685.65 727.25 737.42 772.60 685.73 727.35 737.60 772.80 686.18 727.41 737.65 772.95 686.30 727.47 737.80 772.97 686.90 727.59 737.93 773.05 688.10 727.65 737.96 773.10 688.32 727.70 737.98 774.45 688.34 727.86 740.12 774.50 688.41 728.22 740.13 774.51 692.60 730.94 740.39 774.53 696.10 731.70 740.41 774.56 696.35 732.52 741.25 774.58 696.40 732.60 741.50 790.03 696.50 732.62 745.32 790.10 703.72 734.10 745.45 790.39 705.82 734.15 745.70 790.55 705.83 734.20 750.20 790.60 706.45 734.25 750.22 790.70 706.61 734.77 750.40 791.15 708.45 734.86 750.45 791.60 708.47 734.87 750.47 709.40 734.88 750.65 **Editorial note**. For the text of the President's letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, dated April 29, 1988, on Proclamation 5805, see the *Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents*, (vol. 24, p. 550) 5806 April 29, 1988 National Trauma Awareness Month, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5806 of April 29, 1988 National Trauma Awareness Month, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation We can do a great deal of good for ourselves and our fellow Americans the more we realize the toll traumatic injury takes each year in our country—and the more we understand that the extent of this toll is unnecessary, unacceptable, and preventable. National Trauma Awareness Month is an excellent chance for all of us to learn and to do more about the prevention and treatment of traumatic injury. Traumatic injury is a major public health problem that mainly affects young people; it kills more Americans before age 34 than do all diseases combined. Each year, some 140,000 citizens lose their lives to traumatic injury, and 400,000 suffer severe and often permanently disabling brain or spinal cord injury. Some of the many causes include motor vehicle-related injuries, murder, suicide, and falls. It is up to all of us to learn how to reduce the risk of traumatic injury to ourselves and our children. Citizens can initiate behavior changes and sustain them, and volunteer groups, civic organizations, private businesses, health care providers, researchers, academia, and govern- 102 STAT. 5004 ment can all help discover and implement new and more effective ways of preventing and treating traumatic injury and of assisting victims and their families. Let us always remember that our efforts in this regard will be a blessing to ourselves, our families, and our neighbors. The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 373, has designated May 1988 as “National Trauma Awareness Month” and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May 1988 as National Trauma Awareness Month. I urge the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5807 May 3, 1988 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5807 of May 3, 1988 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation We do well to salute Americans of Asian and Pacific ancestry for their accomplishments and for those of their forebears who through the decades have offered our land their talents, their determination, and a truly immeasurable gift, the treasure of their ancient heritages. The contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans and their cultural vitality have benefited the United States in countless ways. Not least among them have been deep appreciation of the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that form the core of the American ethos, and the willingness and ability to defend these treasures always. Asian and Pacific Americans have won distinction in every field, and continue to strengthen our Nation with industry, initiative, and love of country; that is cause for rejoicing among all Americans, during Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week and the entire year. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 8, 1988, as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. 102 STAT. 5005 **Editorial note**. For the President’s remarks of May 3, 1988, on signing Proclamation 5807, see the *Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents* (vol. 24, p. 564). RONALD REAGAN 5808 May 3, 1988 National Digestive Disease Awareness Month, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5808 of May 3, 1988 National Digestive Disease Awareness Month, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Digestive diseases rank second among all of the causes of disability due to illness in the United States, and account for one-tenth of the economic burden of illness in our land. Their social and economic impact is enormous; half of all Americans are affected by them at some time during life. More Americans are hospitalized for digestive diseases than for any other family of illness. In recent years major advances have taken place in digestive disease research, but efforts to determine their causes and to develop ways to prevent and treat them have only begun. Knowing the impact of these diseases and of the critical need for research in this field, private, scientific, and governmental organizations have committed themselves to increasing public awareness and understanding of gastrointestinal diseases. In recognition of the fourth anniversary of the National Digestive Disease Education Program and of the importance of all efforts to combat digestive diseases, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 421, has designated the month of May 1988 as “National Digestive Disease Awareness Month” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this month. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1988 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month. I urge the people of the United States and educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical, and health care organizations and professionals to take part in appropriate activities to encourage further research into the causes and cures of all types of digestive disorders. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. RONALD REAGAN 5809 May 3, 1988 National Drinking Water Week, 1988 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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