[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 30 (Monday, August 2, 1999)]
[Pages 1524-1525]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7214--To Provide for the Efficient and Fair Administration 
of Action Taken With Regard to Imports of Lamb Meat and for Other 
Purposes

July 30, 1999

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,

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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.
    (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.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 3, 
1999]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
August 4.