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 108 STAT. 5648 PROCLAMATION 6740—OCT. 13, 1994 Proclamation 6740 of October 13, 1994 To Establish Tari£f-Rate Quotas on Certain Wheat By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. In accordance with section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended ("the Act") (7 U.S.C. 624), the Secretary of Agriculture has advised me that he has reason to believe that wheat, classified in heading 1001 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), is being or is 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 wit^.he price support, pay- ment, and production adjustment program for wheat conducted by the Department of Agriculture. 2. Based upon this advice, I directed the United States International Trade Commission ("the Commission") to initinte an investigation with respect to this matter under section 22 of the Act. 3. Based on the investigation and report of the Commission, I have determined that certain articles of wheat are being imported or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to materially interfere with the price support, payment, and production adjustment program for wheat conducted by the Department of Agriculture. Furthe I have determined that the imposition of the tariff-rate quotas,: • ' x-anafter proclaimed, is necessary in order that the entry, or withd^ dl from warehouse for consumption, of such articles will not mat ally interfere with the price support, payment, and production adju aent program for wheat conducted by the Department of Agricultui I have also determined that imports of wheat from Canada have inert ised significantly as a result of a substantial change in the wheat support programs of the United States and Canada. 4. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, of other Acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including but not limited to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, do proclaim that: (1) In order to establish tariff-rate quotas on imports of certain wheat, subchapter FV of chapter 99 of the HTS is modified as set forth in the Annex to this proclamation. (2) For dimim wheat entered during a specified quota year, other than qualifying goods of Mexico or seed wheat, the aggregate quantity exceeding 300,000,000 kilograms but not exceeding 450,000,000 kilograms is subject to the in-quota rate of duty established in such Annex and the aggregate quantity exceeding 450,000,000 kilograms is subject to the over-quota rate of duty established in such Annex. For other wheat and meslin entered during a specified quota year, other than qualifying goods of Mexico or white winter wheat, the aggregate quan-

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