[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 50 (Monday, December 20, 1993)]
[Pages 2595-2596]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6640--Modification of Import Limitations on Certain Dairy 
Products

 December 15, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. Quantitative limitations on imports of certain dairy products 
established pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1933, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624) (the ``Act''), are set forth in 
subchapter IV of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (``HTS'').
    2. In accordance with section 22 of the Act, the Secretary of 
Agriculture advised the President that he has reason to believe that 
changed circumstances exist with respect to the product coverage of the 
import quota for malted milk and articles of milk or cream, and that 
changed circumstances exist with respect to the import quota licensing 
requirement for dried cream and for malted milk and articles of milk or 
cream. The Secretary further advised that circumstances exist that 
require restoration of the quota treatment for margarine cheese that 
existed prior to the conversion of the Tariff Schedules of the United 
States to the HTS. Furthermore, the Secretary advised that circumstances 
exist that require that U.S. Note 3(a)(iii) to subchapter IV of chapter 
99 of the HTS be clarified with respect to the term ``other'' countries 
as it appears in the subheadings subject to the provisions of such note.
    3. Based upon this advice, the President directed the United States 
International Trade Commission (the ``Commission'') to initiate an 
investigation under section 22(d) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 624(d)) to 
determine whether the HTS should be modified with respect to: (a) the 
exclusion of cajeta not made from cow's milk, provided for in subheading 
1901.90.30 of the HTS, from the quota on malted milk and articles of 
milk or

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cream; (b) the exclusion of inedible dried milk powders used for 
calibrating infrared milk analyzers, provided for in subheading 
0404.90.20 of the HTS, from the quota on malted milk and articles of 
milk or cream; (c) the inclusion of margarine cheese, provided for in 
subheading 1901.90.30 of the HTS, under the quota for low-fat cheese, 
and the exclusion of margarine cheese from the quota on malted milk and 
articles of milk or cream; (d) the elimination of the import quota 
licensing requirement for dried cream and malted milk and articles of 
milk or cream; and (e) the modification of U.S. Note 3(a)(iii) to 
subchapter IV of chapter 99 of the HTS to clarify the term ``other'' 
countries as it appears in the subheadings subject to the provisions of 
such note.
    4. After reviewing the facts and taking into account the report of 
the Commission based upon the investigation which it conducted, I have 
determined that the circumstances which required that cajeta not made 
from cow's milk and inedible dried milk powder used for calibrating 
infrared milk analyzers be included in the coverage of the quota for 
malted milk and articles of milk or cream no long exist. I have also 
determined that changed circumstances exist which require the 
elimination of the import quota licensing requirement for dried cream 
and for malted milk and articles of milk or cream. Furthermore, I have 
determined that changed circumstances exist which require that the HTS 
be modified with respect to the quota classification of margarine 
cheese, and that require the modification of U.S. Note 3(a)(iii) to 
subchapter IV of chapter 99 of the HTS to clarify the term ``other'' 
countries as it appears in the subheadings subject to the provisions of 
such note.
    5. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
2483), confers authority upon 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 authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but 
not limited to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as 
amended, and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, do hereby 
proclaim that:
    (1) The HTS is modified as provided in the annex to this 
proclamation.
    (2) The modifications made by this proclamation shall be effective 
with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on and after the date of publication of this proclamation 
in the Federal Register.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day 
of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:41 p.m., December 15, 
1993]

Note: This proclamation and its annex were published in the Federal 
Register on December 17.