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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1979

PROCLAMATION 4634-JAN. 26, 1979

93 STAT. 1487

warehouse, for consumption into the United States of products covered by such agreements or by such other import rehef. [8] This proclamation shall be effective as of February 1, 1979, and shall continue in force through June 30, 1980, unless the period of its effectiveness is earlier expressly modified or terminated. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and third. JIMMY CARTER ANNEX Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is modified— (a) by adding the following headnote: "5. Quantitative limitation on color television receivers and certain subassemblies thereof.—The provisions of this headnote apply to items 923.74 through 923.83, inclusive, of this subpart. The quantitative import limitations imposed are in addition to the duties provided for the restrained articles in schedule 6, part 5. The import restrictions provided for in this subpart do not apply to a single color television receiver or subassembly thereof, if imported for the personal use of the importer. (a) Definition.—For the purposes of this subpart— (i) each subassembly that contains as a component, or is covered in the same entry with, one or more of the following television components, viz., tuner, channel selector assembly, antenna, deflection yoke, degaussing coil, picture tube mounting bracket, grounding assembly, parts necessary for fixing the picture tube or tuner in place, consumer operated controls, or speaker, shall be classified in items 923.78 through 923.83, inclusive; (ii) for the purposes of items 923.78 through 923.83, inclusive, each subassembly shall be counted as a single unit, except that two or more different printed circuit boards or ceramic substrates covered by the same entry and designed for assembly into the same television models shall be counted as one unit; (iii) the term "restraint period" refers to the time periods set forth in items 923.74 through 923.83, inclusive; and (iv) the term "exported" refers to the actual date the merchandise finally leaves the country of exportation for the United States as provided for in section 152.1(c) of the U.S. Customs regulations (19 CFR 152.1(c)). (b) Export visa.—None of the color television receivers and subassemblies thereof provided for herein exported on or after February 1, 1979, from the foreign countries involved may be entered unless such color television receivers and subassemblies are accompanied by an appropriate export visa issued by the government of the exporting country. (c) Color television receivers and certain subassemblies thereof exported prior to February 1, 1979.—All color television receivers and subassemblies thereof provided for in items 923.74 through 923.83, inclusive, which were exported from the foreign country involved prior to February 1, 1979, may be entered prior to April 1, 1979, without the requirement of export visas. No such color television receivers and subassemblies may be entered on or after April 1, 1979, unless accompanied by an appropriate export visa issued by the exporting country and such products shall be counted against the applicable restraint levels. (d) Color television receivers and certain subassemblies thereof exported and entered in different restraint periods.—Color television receivers and subassemblies thereof provided for in items 923.74 through 923.83, inclusive, which are exported from the foreign country involved during one restraint period, but are entered more than 90 days following the beginning of the subsequent restraint period, shall be counted against the restraint levels for that subsequent restraint period. Color television receivers and subassemblies thereof provided for in items 923.74 through 923.83, inclusive, which are exported from the foreign country involved during one restraint period in excess of the restraint level for such period, may be entered after the beginning of the next restraint period and shall be counted against the restraint level for such item for such subsequent restraint period. (e) Carryover.—If the restraint level for any item has not been filled for a restraint period, upon appropriate request of the foreign government involved, the shortfall may be entered under the same item during the following restraint period provided that the amount of shortfall so entered does not exceed 11 percent of the restraint level for the restraint period during which the shortfall occurred for products of Taiwan and 10 percent for products of the Republic of Korea.