[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 50 (Monday, December 18, 1995)]
[Page 2183]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6859--To Modify the Tariff-Rate Quota on Italian-Type 
Cheeses From Poland

December 13, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. On May 17, 1995, the United States and Poland signed a Record of 
Understanding Between Poland and the United States of America on 
Agricultural Items, which provides for an increase in the allocation to 
Poland of the in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota on Italian-type 
cheeses.
    2. Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``the 
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.
    3. Accordingly, pursuant to section 404(d)(3) of the URAA, I have 
determined that it is appropriate to proclaim an increase in the 
allocation to Poland of the in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota 
for Italian-type cheeses.
    4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (``the 1974 
Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``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. The modification of the allocation to Poland 
of the in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota for Italian-type 
cheeses is such an action.
    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 section 404(d)(3) of the URAA (19 U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) and 
section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483), do proclaim that:
    (1) Additional U.S. note 21 to chapter 4 of the HTS is modified by 
deleting the quantity ``1,100,000'' set out opposite Poland and 
inserting ``1,325,000'' in lieu thereof.
    (2) This proclamation is effective with respect to goods entered or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the date of 
signature of this proclamation.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day 
of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 15, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on December 14, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on December 18.