[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]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 149 / Wednesday, August 4, 1999 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
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.
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