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[85 STAT. 932]
PUBLIC LAW 92-000—MMMM. DD, 1971
[85 STAT. 932]

932

61 Stat. A71.

^.eStat. 162; 72 Stat. 073.

19 USC 1351. 76 Stat. 880. 19 USC 1885. 19 USC 1821.

Ante, p. 926.

PROCLAMATION 4076-AUG. 21, 1971

[85 STAT.

agreements entered into under sections 350(a) and 201(a) of such Acts, respectively, and I determine that the modifications of duties hereinafter proclaimed are appropriate to carry out Article X X VIII of the General Agreement; 11 WHEREAS section 3 5 0 (a)(6) of the Tariff Act and section \

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255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 authorize the President v / r at any time to terminate, in whole or in part, any proclamations made under sections 350(a) and 201(a) of such Acts, respectively, and I determine it is appropriate to terminate in part certain of such proclamations with respect to certain articles for such time as the tariff-rate quota hereinafter proclaimed remains in effect; NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 3 5 0 (a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and section 2 0 1 (a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and, as separate and additional authority, section 350(a)(6) and section 255(b) of such Acts, respectively, and in accordance with Article X X VIII of the General Agreement, do proclaim as follows: 1. I hereby establish a tariff-rate quota with respect to stainless steel flatware so that the rates of duty provided in column numbered 1 of the TSUS shall be the same as the rates of duty now provided in column numbered 2 thereof with respect to any such flatware entered in excess of such quota. To that end the new subpart D set out in the annex to this proclamation shall be inserted after subpart C of part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS. 2. I hereby modify the duties proclaimed by the proclamations referred to in recitals 4 and 5 above to the extent necessary to give effect to the tariff-rate quota established hereby, for such time as such quota remains in effect; and I hereby terminate in part such proclamations to such extent and for such time. 3. The tariff-rate quota established hereby shall be effective as to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after the first day of October 1971. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-sixth.

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