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PUBLIC LAW 89-651-OCT. 14, 1966

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Public Law 89-651 ,AN ACT

October 14, 1966

To implement the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials, opened for signature at Lake Success on November 22, 1950, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled, J

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[H. R. 8664]

of the ^ Educational,

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Scientific and

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE, ETC.

cultural Mate-

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the "Educational, Act oT^ig'ee!'""

Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966". (b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to enable the United States to give effect to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials, opened for signature at Lake Success on November 22, 1950, with a view to contributing to the cause of peace through the freer exchange of ideas and knowledge across national boundaries. (c) AMENDMENT OF TARIFF SCHEDULES.—Whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or lepeal of, an item or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to an item or other provision of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. sec. 1202). SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act shall become effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after a date to be proclaimed by the President, which date shall be within a period of three months after the date on which the United States instrument of ratification of the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials shall have been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. SEC. 3. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND OTHER PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL.

77A Stat. 3.

(a) BOOKS.—

(1) Schedule 2, part 5, is amended— ^ ^ (A) by striking out items 270.15 to 270.40, inclusive, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " I 270.25 I Books not specially provided for


 * Free


 * Free



(B) by striking out the article description irmnediately preceding item 270.45 and inserting in lieu thereof "Printed catalogs relating chiefly to current offers for the sale of United States products:", (C) by striking out the item numbers and the article descriptions in items 274.75 to 274.90, inclusive, and the article descriptions preceding items 274.75 and 274.85, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Printed matter not specially provided for: 274.73 Suitable for use in the production of such books as would themselves be free of duty Other: Printed on paper in whole or in part by a lithographic process: 274.75 Not over 0.020 inch thick 274.80 Over 0.020 inch thick Other: 274.85 Susceptible of authorship 274.90 Other " (D) by inserting "Free" in each of the rate columns in item 274.73, added by subparagraph (C).

77A Stat. 109.

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