[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 18, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 52399-52401]
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[FR Doc No: 94-25939]
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[Federal Register: October 18, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 200
Tuesday, October 18, 1994
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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6740 of October 13, 1994
To Establish Tariff-Rate Quotas on Certain Wheat
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. In accordance with section 22 of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act, as amended (``the Act'') (7 U.S.C.
624), the Secretary of Agriculture has advised me that
he has reason to believe that wheat, classified in
heading 1001 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTS), is being or is practically certain
to be imported into the United States under such
conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend
to render ineffective, or materially interfere with,
the price support, payment, and production adjustment
program for wheat conducted by the Department of
Agriculture.
2. Based upon this advice, I directed the United States
International Trade Commission (``the Commission'') to
initiate an investigation with respect to this matter
under section 22 of the Act.
3. Based on the investigation and report of the
Commission, I have determined that certain articles of
wheat are being imported or are practically certain to
be imported into the United States under such
conditions and in such quantities as to materially
interfere with the price support, payment, and
production adjustment program for wheat conducted by
the Department of Agriculture. Further, I have
determined that the imposition of the tariff-rate
quotas, as hereinafter proclaimed, is necessary in
order that the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for
consumption, of such articles will not materially
interfere with the price support, payment, and
production adjustment program for wheat conducted by
the Department of Agriculture. I have also determined
that imports of wheat from Canada have increased
significantly as a result of a substantial change in
the wheat support programs of the United States and
Canada.
4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19
U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the
HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act,
of other Acts affecting import treatment, and of
actions taken thereunder.
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 22
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and
section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, do
proclaim that:
(1) In order to establish tariff-rate quotas on
imports of certain wheat, subchapter IV of chapter 99
of the HTS is modified as set forth in the Annex to
this proclamation.
(2) For durum wheat entered during a specified
quota year, other than qualifying goods of Mexico or
seed wheat, the aggregate quantity exceeding
300,000,000 kilograms but not exceeding 450,000,000
kilograms is subject to the in-quota rate of duty
established in such Annex and the aggregate quantity
exceeding 450,000,000 kilograms is subject to the over-
quota rate of duty established in such Annex. For other
wheat and meslin entered during a specified quota year,
other than qualifying goods of Mexico or white winter
wheat, the aggregate quantity exceeding 1,050,000,000
kilograms is subject to the over-quota rate of duty
established in the Annex.
(3) The modifications made by this proclamation
shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after
September 12, 1994, and before the close of September
11, 1995, unless expressly suspended, modified, or
terminated.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-25939
Filed 10-14-94; 3:40 pm]
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