[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 55611-55612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26930]
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Part V
The President
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Proclamation 7235--To Delegate Authority for the Administration of the
Tariff-Rate Quotas on Sugar-Containing Products and Other Agricultural
Products to the United States Trade Representative and the Secretary of
Agriculture
Proclamation 7236--Leif Erikson Day, 1999
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7235 of October 7, 1999
To Delegate Authority for the Administration of
the Tariff-Rate Quotas on Sugar-Containing Products and
Other Agricultural Products to the United States Trade
Representative and the Secretary of Agriculture
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. On April 15, 1994, the President entered into trade
agreements resulting from the Uruguay Round of
multilateral trade negotiations (``Uruguay Round
Agreements''). As part of those agreements, the United
States converted quotas on imports of beef, cotton,
dairy products, peanuts, peanut butter and peanut
paste, sugar, and sugar-containing products (as defined
in additional U.S. notes 2 and 3 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States) into tariff-rate
quotas. In section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round
Agreements Act (the ``URAA'') (Public Law 103-65; 108
Stat. 4809), Congress approved the Uruguay Round
Agreements listed in section 101(d) of that Act,
including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1994.
2. On December 23, 1994, the President issued
Presidential Proclamation 6763, implementing the
Uruguay Round Agreements consistent with the URAA.
Presidential Proclamation 6763 included a delegation of
the President's authority under the statutes cited in
the proclamation, including section 404(a) of the URAA,
19 U.S.C. 3601(a), to the Secretary of Agriculture, the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the United States Trade
Representative, as necessary to perform functions
assigned to them to implement the proclamation. Section
404(a) directs the President to take such action as may
be necessary in implementing the tariff-rate quotas set
out in Schedule XX - United States of America, annexed
to the Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade 1994, to ensure that imports of
agricultural products do not disrupt the orderly
marketing of commodities in the United States.
3. I have determined that it is necessary to delegate
my authority under section 404(a) to administer the
tariff-rate quotas relating to cotton, dairy products,
peanuts, peanut butter and peanut paste, sugar, and
sugar-containing products to the United States Trade
Representative and to delegate to the Secretary of
Agriculture authority to issue licenses governing the
importation of such products under the applicable
tariff-rate quotas. The Secretary of Agriculture shall
exercise such licensing authority in consultation with
the United States Trade Representative.
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 of America, including but not limited to
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and section
404(a) of the URAA, do hereby proclaim:
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(1) The United States Trade Representative is
authorized to exercise my authority pursuant to section
404(a) of the URAA to take all action necessary,
including the promulgation of regulations, to
administer the tariff-rate quotas relating
respectively, to cotton, dairy products, peanuts,
peanut butter and peanut paste, sugar, and sugar-
containing products, as the latter products are defined
in additional U.S. notes 2 and 3 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States. The Secretary of
Agriculture, in consultation with the United States
Trade Representative, is authorized to exercise my
authority pursuant to section 404(a) to issue import
licenses governing the importation of such products
within the applicable tariff-rate quotas.
(2) All provisions of previous proclamations and
Executive orders that are inconsistent with the actions
taken in this proclamation are superseded to the extent
of such inconsistency.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twenty-fourth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 99-26930
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