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[83 STAT. 916]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1969
[83 STAT. 916]

916

67 Stat. 472.

81 Stat. 1111; Infra. 19 USC 1202. 64 Stat. 261. 7 USC 624.

76 Stat. 72. 19 USC prec. 1202 note. 82 Stat. 1636, 1649.

PROCLAMATION 3884-JAN. 6, 1969

[83 STAT.

WHEREAS the findings and recommendations unanimously agreed upon by one-lialf of the number of Commissioners voting are considered by me pursuant to section 201 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1953 (19 U.S.C. 1330(d)) as the findings and recommendations of the Commission; and WHEREAS, on the basis of such investigation and report, I find and declare that the articles for which import restrictions are hereinafter proclaimed, continued in eft'ect or modified, are being imported and are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the price support programs now conducted by the Department of Agriculture for milk and butterfat, and to reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic milk and butterfat; and WHEREAS, on the basis of such investigation and report, I find and declare that the imposition of the import restrictions hereinafter proclaimed or continued in effect is necessary in order that the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of such articles will not render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the price support programs now conducted by the Department of Agriculture for milk and butterf at, or reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic milk and butterf at; and WHEREAS, on the basis of such investigation and report, I find and declare that changed circumstances require the modification, as hereinafter proclaimed, of provisions applicable to the import restrictions on natural Cheddar cheese, as set forth in subdivision (i) of headnote 3(a) in part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States, and in the import restrictions set forth as items 950.12 and 950.13 (hereinafter redesignated as items 950.22 and 950.23) in part 3 of such Appendix in order to carry out the purposes of said section 22; and WHEREAS I find and declare that for the purpose of the first proviso of section 22(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, the representative period for imports of articles, subject to import quotas hereinafter provided for in items 950.lOA and 950.15 in part 3 of the Appendix of the Tariff' Schedules of the United States, is the calendar years 1965 through 1967, and that the representative periods for imports of other articles for which quotas are hereinafter continued in effect or modified are the same as set forth for such articles in previous applicable proclamations; NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President, and in conformity with the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and the Tariff' Classification Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that: (1) The import restrictions proclaimed by Proclamations 3856 and 3870 which are set forth as items 949.90, 950.09B, 950.10A (hereinafter redesignated as item 950.10B), and 950.lOB (hereinafter redesignated as item 950.IOC) in part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States are continued in effect. (2) Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended as follows: (a) The first sentence of subdivision (i) of headnote 3(a) is amended to read as fallows: "imported articles subject to the import quotas provided for in items