[Title 3 CFR 7235]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - January 1, 2000 Edition]
[Title 3 - Presidential Documents]
[Proclamation 7235 - Proclamation 7235 of October 7, 1999]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
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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:
(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
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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