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

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 55611-55612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26930]



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Part V





The President





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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



Proclamation 7236--Leif Erikson Day, 1999


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Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 197 / Wednesday, October 13, 1999 / 
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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 7235 of October 7, 1999

                
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

                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 103-65; 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:

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                    (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 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.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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