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PROCLAMATION 4037-MAR. 11, 1971 PROCLAMATION

[85 STAT.

4037

Quantitative Limitation on the Importation of Certain Meats Into the United States March 11, 1971

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

19 USC^V2o°2

WHEREAS section 2(a) of the Act of August 22, 1964 (78 Stat. 594, 19 U.S.C. 1202 note) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), declares that it is the policy of the Congress that the aggregate quantity of the articles specified in item 106.10 (relating to fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat) and item 106.20 (relating to fresh, chilled, or frozen meat of goats and sheep (except lambs)) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (hereinafter referred to as "meat") which may be imported into the United States in any calendar year beginning after December 31, 1964, shall not exceed a quantity to be computed as prescribed in that section (hereafter referred to as "adjusted base quantity"); and WHEREAS section 2(b) of the Act provides that the Secretary of Agriculture for each calendar year after 1964 shall estimate and publish the adjusted base quantity for such calendar year and shall estimate and publish quarterly the aggregate quantity of meat which in the absence of the limitations under the Act would be imported during such calendar year (hereafter referred to as "potential aggregate imports"); and WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to sections 2(a) and (b) of the Act, estimated the adjusted base quantity of meat for the calendar year 1971 to be 1,025.0 million pounds and estimated the potential aggregate imports of meat for 1971 to be 1,160.0 million pounds; and WHEREAS the potential aggregate imports of meat for the calendar year 1971, as estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture, exceeds 110 percent of the adjusted base quantity of meat for the calendar year 1971 estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture; and WHEREAS no limitation under the Act is in effect with respect to the calendar year 1971; and WHEREAS section 2(c)(1) of the Act requires the President in such

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