[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 40 (Monday, October 11, 1999)]
[Pages 1974-1975]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7235--To Delegate Authority for the Administration of the 
Tariff-Rate Quotas on Sugar-Containing Products and Other Agricultural 
Products to the United States Trade Representative and the Secretary of 
Agriculture

October 7, 1999

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    1. On April 15, 1994, the President entered into trade agreements 
resulting from the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations 
(``Uruguay Round Agreements''). As part of those agreements, the United 
States converted quotas on imports of beef, cotton, dairy products, 
peanuts, peanut butter and peanut paste, sugar, and sugar-containing 
products (as defined in additional U.S. notes 2 and 3 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States) into tariff-rate quotas. In 
section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (the ``URAA'') 
(Public Law 103-465; 108 Stat. 4809), Congress approved the Uruguay 
Round Agreements listed in section 101(d) of that Act, including the 
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994.
    2. On December 23, 1994, the President issued Presidential 
Proclamation 6763, implementing the Uruguay Round Agreements consistent 
with the URAA. Presidential Proclamation 6763 included a delegation of 
the President's authority under the statutes cited in the proclamation, 
including section 404(a) of the URAA, 19 U.S.C. 3601(a), to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the United 
States Trade Representative, as necessary to perform functions assigned 
to them to implement the proclamation. Section 404(a) directs the 
President to take such action as may be necessary in implementing the 
tariff-rate quotas set out in Schedule XX--United States of America, 
annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs 
and Trade 1994, to ensure that imports of agricultural products do not 
disrupt the orderly marketing of commodities in the United States.
    3. I have determined that it is necessary to delegate my authority 
under section 404(a) to administer the tariff-rate quotas relating to 
cotton, dairy products, peanuts, peanut butter and peanut paste, sugar, 
and sugar-containing products to the United States Trade Representative 
and to delegate to the Secretary of Agriculture authority to issue 
licenses governing the importation of such products under the applicable 
tariff-rate quotas. The Secretary of Agriculture shall exercise such 
licensing authority in consultation with the United States Trade 
Representative.
    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 301 of title 3, United States Code, and section 
404(a) of the URAA, do hereby proclaim:
    (1) The United States Trade Representative is authorized to exercise 
my authority pursuant to section 404(a) of the URAA to take all action 
necessary, including the promulgation of regulations, to administer the 
tariff-rate quotas relating respectively, to cotton, dairy products, 
peanuts, peanut butter

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and peanut paste, sugar, and sugar-containing products, as the latter 
products are defined in additional U.S. notes 2 and 3 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States. The Secretary of Agriculture, in 
consultation with the United States Trade Representative, is authorized 
to exercise my authority pursuant to section 404(a) to issue import 
licenses governing the importation of such products within the 
applicable tariff-rate quotas.
    (2) All 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.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of 
October, 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, 11:56 a.m., October 12, 
1999]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 8, and it will be published in the Federal Register 
on October 13.