Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 5.djvu/218

 100 STAT. 3692

Courts, U.S.

Imports. Tariff Schedules of the U.S. President of U.S.

Ante, pp. 2923, 2926. 19 USC note prec. 1202-1202 note.

PUBLIC LAW 99-658—NOV. 14, 1986

(b) To provide for the continuity of administration, and to assure the Governments of Palau that the purposes of the laws of the United States are carried out and that the funds of any other trust fund in which the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands has authority of a statutory or customary nature shall remain available as trust funds to their designated beneficiaries, the Government of the United States agrees to assume the authority formerly vested in the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Section 236 Except as otherwise provided, approval of this Compact by the Government of the United States shall constitute a pledge of the full faith and credit of the United States for the full payment of the sums and amounts specified in Article I of this Title. The obligation of the Government of the United States under Article I of this Title shall be enforceable in the United States Claims Court, or its successor court, which shall have jurisdiction in cases arising under this Section, notwithstanding the provisions of 28 U.S.C. 1502, and which court's decisions shall be reviewable as provided by the laws of the United States. Article IV ..,,.,. •. Trade Section 241 Palau is not included in the customs territory of the United States. Section 242 The President of the United States shall proclaim the following tariff treatment for articles imported from Palau which shall apply during the period of effectiveness of this Title: (a) Unless otherwise excluded, articles imported from Palau, subject to the limitations imposed under sections 503(b) and 504(c) of title 5 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2463(b): 2464(c)), shall be exempt from duty. (b) Only canned tuna provided for in item 112.30 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States that is imported from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau during any calendar year not to exceed 10 percent of the United States consumption of canned tuna during the immediately preceding calendar year, as reported by the National Marine Fisheries Service, shall be exempt from duty; but the quantity of tuna given duty free treatment under this paragraph for any calendar year shall be counted against the aggregate quantity of canned tuna that is dutiable under rate column numbered 1 of such item 112.30 for that calendar year. (c) The duty-free treatment provided under paragraph (1) shall not apply to: (1) watches, clocks and timing apparatus provided for in subpart E of part 2 of schedule 7 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States; (2) buttons (whether finished or not finished) provided for in item 745.32 of such Schedules; (3) textile and apparel articles which are subject to textile agreements; and (4) footy.^ear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather wearing apparel which were not eligible articles for

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