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PUBLIC LAW 87-456-MAY 24, 1962

[76 STAT.

Schedules of the United States and, after such action is completed, the President shall proclaim— (1) the rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of schedules 1 to 7, inclusive, and the other provisions of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, which are required or appropriate to carry out the foreign trade agreements to which the United States is a contracting party; (2) the temporary modifications set forth in part 2 of the appendix to the tariff schedules (that is, those modifications proclaimed pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the Trade 65 Stat. 74. Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1364), and of other trade-agreements legislation); (3) the additional import restrictions set forth in part 3 of the appendix to the tariff schedules (that is, those restrictions-proclaimed pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment 62 Stat. 1248. -^^^5 ^^ amended (7 U.S.C. 6 2 4)); and (4) the nations or areas and countries set forth in general headnote 3(d) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (relating to the treatment of products of certain Communist-dominated nations or areas and countries discriminating against American commerce). SEC. 103. The provisions of the Tariff Schedules of the United States as made effective on the date provided by section 501 shall have the status of statutory provisions duly enacted by the Congress, except for— (1) the rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of the tariff schedules proclaimed pursuant to paragraph (1) of section 102 which are lower than the rates of duty in rate column numbered 2 of such schedules for the corresponding items; and (2) the provisions proclaimed by the President pursuant to paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of section 102. SEC. 104. During the period between the date of the enactment of this Act and the effective date of the Tariff Schedules of the United States— (1) all public notices which refer to articles in terms of their tariff descriptions and which are issued in connection with investigations by the Commission or other agency, and all findings or recommendations made during such period by any such agency with respect thereto (including findings or recommendations in connection with investigations instituted before the date of the enactment of this Act), shall make reference to the prospectively applicable provisions of such schedules, as determined by the Commission, as well as to the existing provisions; and (2) the Commission shall furnish to the President, upon request, any of its outstanding findings restated so as to conform to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to the fullest extent practicable consistent with the purposes of title I of the Customs 68 Stat. 1136. Simplification Act of 1954. 19 USC 133 2 Any such findings or recommendations with respect to the Tariff Schedules of the United States shall be treated as formal findings or recommendations of the agency involved. TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE AND SAVING PROVISIONS SEC. 201. The Commission is authorized to issue, at appropriate intervals, and to keep up to date, a publication containing current tariff schedules and related matters, including such matter as may be needed for reporting statistics.

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