[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 42 (Monday, October 24, 1994)]
[Pages 2035-2036]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6740--To Establish Tariff-Rate Quotas on Certain Wheat

October 13, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. In accordance with section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 
as amended (``the Act'') (7 U.S.C. 624), the Secretary of Agriculture 
has advised me that he has reason to believe that wheat, classified in 
heading 1001 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTS), is being or is practically certain to be imported into the United 
States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend 
to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the price support, 
payment, and production adjustment program for wheat conducted by the 
Department of Agriculture.
    2. Based upon this advice, I directed the United States 
International Trade Commission (``the Commission'') to initiate an 
investigation with respect to this matter under section 22 of the Act.
    3. Based on the investigation and report of the Commission, I have 
determined that certain articles of wheat are being imported or are 
practically certain to be imported into the United States under such 
conditions and in such quantities as to materially interfere with the 
price support, payment, and production adjustment program for wheat 
conducted by the Department of Agriculture. Further, I have determined 
that the imposition of the tariff-rate quotas, as hereinafter 
proclaimed, is necessary in order that the entry, or withdrawal from 
warehouse for consumption, of such articles will not materially 
interfere with the price support, payment, and production adjustment 
program for wheat conducted by the Department of Agriculture. I have 
also determined that imports of wheat from Canada have increased 
significantly as a result of a substantial change in the wheat support 
programs of the United States and Canada.
    4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
2483), authorizes 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 the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including but not 
limited to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, 
and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, do proclaim that:
    (1) In order to establish tariff-rate quotas on imports of certain 
wheat, subchapter IV of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as set forth 
in the Annex to this proclamation.
    (2) For durum wheat entered during a specified quota year, other 
than qualifying goods of Mexico or seed wheat, the aggregate quantity 
exceeding 300,000,000 kilograms but not exceeding 450,000,000 kilograms 
is subject to the in-quota rate of duty established in such Annex and 
the aggregate quantity exceeding 450,000,000 kilograms is subject to the 
over-quota rate of duty established in such Annex. For other wheat and 
meslin entered during a specified quota year, other than qualifying 
goods of Mexico or white winter wheat, the aggregate quantity exceeding 
1,050,000,000 kilograms is subject to the over-quota rate of duty 
established in the Annex.
    (3) The modifications made by this proclamation shall be effective 
with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after September 12, 1994, and before the close of 
September 11, 1995, unless expressly suspended, modified, or terminated.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day 
of October, in

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the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:40 p.m., October 14, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 14, and it was published with its annexes in the 
Federal Register on October 18. This item was not received in time for 
publication in the appropriate issue.