[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 4, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 42265-42267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20189]


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 The President

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                Proclamation 7214 of July 30, 1999

                
To Provide for the Efficient and Fair 
                Administration of Action Taken With Regard to Imports 
                of Lamb Meat and for Other Purposes

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. On July 7, 1999, I issued Proclamation 7208, which 
                implemented action of a type described in section 
                203(a)(3) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 
                U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)) (the ``Trade Act''), with respect to 
                imports of fresh, chilled, or frozen lamb meat, 
                provided for in subheadings 0204.10.00, 0204.22.20, 
                0204.23.20, 0204.30.00, 0204.42.20, and 0204.43.20 of 
                the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
                (HTS). Proclamation 7208 took effect on July 22, 1999.

                2. Proclamation 7208 established import relief in the 
                form of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) and increased duties 
                but did not make specific provision for their 
                administration. I have determined under section 
                203(g)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(g)(1)) that 
                it is necessary for the efficient and fair 
                administration of the action undertaken in Proclamation 
                7208 to exempt from the measure goods that were 
                exported prior to July 22, 1999.

                3. I have further determined under section 203(g)(1) of 
                the Trade Act that in order to provide for the 
                efficient and fair administration of the TRQs 
                established in Proclamation 7208 it is necessary to 
                delegate my authority to administer the TRQs under that 
                section to the United States Trade Representative.

                4. On May 28, 1999, I issued Proclamation 7202, which 
                took certain actions to eliminate circumvention of the 
                quantitative limitations applicable to imports of wheat 
                gluten that were proclaimed in Proclamation 7103. I 
                have determined that a technical correction in the 
                description of an action taken in Proclamation 7202 is 
                appropriate.

                5. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), 
                authorizes the President to embody in the 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.



                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 
                sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act, and section 301 
                of title 3, United States Code, do proclaim that:

                (1) In order to provide for the efficient and fair 
                administration of the TRQs on imports of fresh, 
                chilled, or frozen lamb meat classified in HTS 
                subheadings 0204.10.00, 0204.22.20, 0204.23.20, 
                0204.30.00, 0204.42.20, and 0204.43.20, subchapter III 
                of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as provided for in 
                the Annex to this proclamation.

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                (2) The United States Trade Representative is 
                authorized to exercise my authority pursuant to section 
                203(g) of the Trade Act to take all action necessary, 
                including the promulgation of regulations, to 
                administer the TRQs relating to imports of lamb meat 
                provided for in HTS subheadings 0204.10.00, 0204.22.20, 
                0204.23.20, 0204.30.00, 0204.42.20, and 0204.43.20.

                (3) The third sentence of initial paragraph 4 of 
                Proclamation 7202 is hereby stricken and the following 
                sentence is inserted in lieu thereof: ``Such action 
                shall take the form of a reduction in the European 
                Community's 1999/2000 wheat gluten quota allotment in 
                the amount of 5,402,000 kg., which represents the 
                amount of wheat gluten that entered the United States 
                in excess of the European Community's 1998 quota 
                allocation.''

                (4) 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.

                (5) The actions taken in this proclamation shall be 
                effective on the date of signature of this proclamation 
                and shall continue in effect through the close of the 
                dates on which actions proclaimed in Proclamation 7202 
                and Proclamation 7208 cease to be effective, unless 
                such actions are earlier expressly modified or 
                terminated.

                (6) The modifications to the HTS shall be effective 
                with respect to goods exported on or after July 22, 
                1999, and shall continue in effect as provided in the 
                Annex to this proclamation, unless such actions are 
                earlier expressly modified or terminated.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of July, 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.)

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