[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 45851-45856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Part XIV





The President





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Proclamation 6914--To Modify the Allocation of Tariff-Rate Quotas for 
Certain Cheeses
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                Proclamation 6914 of August 26, 1996

                
To Modify the Allocation of Tariff-Rate Quotas 
                for Certain Cheeses

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On January 1, 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden 
                acceded to the European Communities (EC), and the EC 
                customs union of 12 member countries (``EC-12'') was 
                enlarged to a customs union of 15 member countries 
                (``EC-15''). At that time, the EC-12, Austria, Finland, 
                and Sweden withdrew their tariff schedules under the 
                World Trade Organization and applied the common 
                external tariff of the EC-12 to imports into the EC-15. 
                The United States and the EC then entered into 
                negotiations under Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of 
                the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 to 
                compensate the United States for the resulting increase 
                in some tariffs on U.S. exports to Austria, Finland, 
                and Sweden.

                2. On July 22, 1996, the United States and the EC 
                signed an agreement concluding the negotiations on 
                compensation. To recognize the membership of Austria, 
                Finland, and Sweden in the EC-15, the tariff-rate quota 
                (TRQ) allocations for cheeses from these countries will 
                become part of the total TRQ allocations for cheeses 
                from the EC-15, but will be reserved for use by these 
                countries through 1997.

                3. Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay Round Agreements 
                Act (URAA) (19 U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) authorizes the 
                President to allocate the in-quota quantity of a 
                tariff-rate quota for any agricultural product among 
                supplying countries or customs areas and to modify any 
                allocation as the President determines appropriate. 
                Pursuant to section 404(d)(3) of the URAA, I have 
                determined that it is appropriate to modify the TRQ 
                allocations for cheeses by providing that the TRQ 
                allocations for cheeses from Austria, Finland, and 
                Sweden will become part of the total TRQ allocations 
                for cheeses from the EC-15, but will be reserved for 
                use by these countries through 1997.

                4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended 
                (``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the 
                President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
                of the United States (HTS) the substance of the 
                relevant provisions of that Act, and of other Acts 
                affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder, 
                including the removal, modification, continuance, or 
                imposition of any rate of duty or other import 
                restriction. The modification of the TRQ allocations 
                for cheeses is such an action.

                5. In paragraph (3) of Proclamation 6763 of December 
                23, 1994, I delegated my authority under section 
                404(d)(3) of the Trade Act to the United States Trade 
                Representative (USTR). I have determined that it is 
                appropriate to authorize the USTR to exercise my 
                authority under section 604 of the Trade Act to embody 
                in the HTS the substance of any action taken by the 
                USTR under section 404(d)(3) of the URAA.

                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 301 
                of title 3, United States Code, section 404(d)(3) of 
                the URAA, and section 604 of the Trade Act do proclaim 
                that:

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                    (1) Additional U.S. notes to chapter 4 of the HTS 
                are modified as specified in the Annex to this 
                proclamation.
                    (2) The USTR is authorized to exercise my authority 
                under section 604 of the Trade Act to embody in the HTS 
                the substance of any actions taken by USTR under 
                section 404(d)(3) of the URAA.
                    (3) Any 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.
                    (4) This proclamation is effective on the date of 
                signature of this proclamation, and the modifications 
                to the HTS made by the Annex to this proclamation shall 
                be effective on the dates that are specified in that 
                Annex.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-first.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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