[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
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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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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 169 / Thursday, August 29, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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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.
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