Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 73.djvu/958

 c68

7 USC 624. Quantitative limitations.

Canada and other foreign countries.

Seed rye.

' Entered'

PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 4, 1959

[73 STAT.

rye flour, and rye meal entered to proportionately less than 50 per centum of the average annual quantity of rye, rye flour, and rye meal entered during the representative period July 1, 1950, to June 30, 1953, inclusive; and WHEREAS the allocation of the quotas among foreign supplying countries as hereinafter prescribed will assure an equitable distribution of the imports of rye, rye flour, and rye meal entered hereunder, based upon the proportion of imports for consumption that such foreign countries supplied during the representative period: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim— 1. That for the period commencing August 5, 1959, and ending August 31, 1959, the total aggregate quantity of rye, rye flour, and rye meal entered shall not exceed 6,741,268 pounds, of which not more than 518 pounds may be in the form of rye flour or rye meal; 2. That for the ten-month period commencing September 1, 1959, and ending June 30, 1960, the total aggregate quantity of rye, rye flour, and rye meal entered shall not exceed 77,399,736 pounds, of which not more than 5,939 pounds may be in the form of rye flour or rye meal; 3. That for the twelve-month period commencing July 1, 1960, and ending June 30, 1961, the total aggregate quantity of rye, rye flour, and rye meal entered shall not exceed an amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury as soon as practicable after June 30, 1960, to be the equivalent of 186,000,000 pounds less the amount, if any, by which entries during the period July 1, 1959, to June 30, 1960, exceeded 186,000,000 pounds: Provided, that the amount so determined shall not be less than 92,879,683 pounds, and that of the amount so determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, not more than 0.00806 per centum may be in the form of rye flour or rye meal; 4. That of the 6,741,268 pounds specified in paragraph 1, not more than 6,606,443 shall be the product of Canada and not more than 134,825 shall be the product of other foreign countries; that of the 77,399,736 pounds specified in paragraph 2, not more than 75,851,741 shall be the product of Canada and not more than 1,547,995 shall be the product of other foreign countries; that of the amount to be determined under paragraph 3, not more than 98 per centum shall be the product of Canada and not more than 2 per centum shall be the product of other foreign countries. The provisions of this proclamation shall not apply to certified or registered seed rye for use for seeding and crop-improvement purposes, in bags tagged and sealed by an officially recognized seed-certifying agency of the country of production, if— (a) the individual shipment amounts to 100 bushels (of 56 pounds each) or less, or (b) the individual shipment amounts to more than 100 bushels (of 56 pounds each) and the written approval of the Secretary of Agriculture or his designated representative is presented at the time of entry, or bond is furnished in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs in an amount equal to the value of the merchandise as set forth in the entry, plus the estimated duty as determined at the time of entry, conditioned upon the production of such written approval within six months from the date of entry. As used in this proclamation, the term "entered" means "entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption."

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