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GENERAL NOTES; GENERAL RULES OF INTERPRETATION;
GENERAL STATISTICAL NOTES
General Rules of Interpretation
General Note 1 Tariff Treatment of Imported Goods and of Vessel Equipments, Parts and Repairs
General Note 2 Customs Territory of the United States
General Note 3 Rates of Duty
General Note 4 Products of Countries Designated Beneficiary Developing Countries for Purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
General Note 5 Automotive Products and Motor Vehicles Eligible for Special Tariff Treatment
General Note 6 Articles Eligible for Duty-Free Treatment Pursuant to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft
General Note 7 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Developing Countries for Purposes of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA)
General Note 8 United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985
General Note 9 United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement (suspended)
General Note 10 Products of the Freely Associated States
General Note 11 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries for Purposes of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)
General Note 12 North American Free Trade Agreement
General Note 13 Pharmaceutical Products
General Note 14 Intermediate Chemicals for Dyes
General Note 15 Exclusions
General Note 16 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
General Note 17 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries under the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act of 2000
General Note 18 United States-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act
General Notes 19-24 [Transferred and designated as subdivisions (e) through
(j), respectively, of general note 3]
General Note 25 United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
General Note 26 United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement
General Note 27 United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement
General Note 28 United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement
General Note 29 United States - Dominican Republic CAFTA
General Note 30 United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement
General Note 31 United States - Oman Free Trade Agreement
General Note 32 United States-Peru Free Trade Agreement