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[80 STAT. 1747]
PRIVATE LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1966
[80 STAT. 1747]

80

STAT.]

PROCLAMATION 3694-DEC. 27, 1965

1747

12. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 201(a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962,1 determine that the modification or continuance of existing duties or other import restrictions, and the continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, provided for in the schedule in annex II to the trade agreement with Canada identified in the eighth recital of this proclamation, will be required or appropriate to carry out such trade agreement on and after January 1, 1966, and that the Tariff Schedules of the United States should be appropriately modified to reflect the concessions contained in such schedule: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 201(a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do proclaim that: (1) Subject to the applicable provisions of the trade agreement with Canada identified in the eighth recital of this proclamation and of the General Agreement and other agreements supplementary thereto, the modification or continuance of existing duties or other import restrictions, and the continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, provided for in the schedule in annex II to such agreement with Canada shall be effective on and after January 1, 1966, and, as a result thereof, (2) The Tariff Schedules of the United States shall be modified, effective on and after January 1, 1966, as provided for in Appendix B to this proclamation. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 27th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State. APPENDIX A INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA R E LATING T THE RENEGOTIATION or SCHEDULE X X (UNITED STATES) O TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE NOTE: Text of this Appendix A is filed a s part of the original document. nex II thereto reads a s follows: ANNEX

An-

II

GENEBAL AGEEEMENT ON T A R I F F S AND TRADE

Article XXVIII

Renegotiations

of Schedule

XX

UNITED STATES COMPENSATORY CONCESSIONS TO CANADA GENERAL NOTES

1. The provisions of this Schedule a r e subject to the pertinent notes appearing a t the end of Schedule X X (Geneva-1947) annexed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as authenticated at Geneva on October 30, 1947. 2. The bracketed language in the description column of this Schedule has been inserted only in order to clarify the scope of the numbered concession items, and such language is not itself intended to describe articles on which concessions have been granted.

77A Stat. 3. 19 USC 1202.