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PROCLAMATION 4076-AUG. 21, 1971

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4. WHEREAS item 355 in part I of Schedule X X to the Torquay Protocol provided for, and Proclamation No. 2929 proclaimed, concessions on certain knives and forks with stainless steel handles; and item 339 in part I of Schedule XX to the Sixth Protocol provided for, and Proclamation No. 3140 proclaimed, concessions on certain spoons with stainless steel handles;

^i Stat. A1207. ^^ Stat. c u. ^i Stat. AI2O:2. 70 Stat. 033.

5. WHEREAS Proclamation No. 3548 of August 21, 1963 (77 Stat. 1017) gave effect to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (herein- ,}^ use prec. ' ^

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after referred to as "the TSUS") and proclaimed, with modifications, the concession rates of duty for knives, forks and spoons with stainless steel handles in column numbered 1 of items 650.09, 650.11, 650.39, 650.41 and 650.55 of the TSUS; 82'sfat''r479°?i8o. 19 USC 1202.

6. WHEREAS part I of Schedule X X to the Geneva (1967) Protocol (19 UST (pt. 2) 1227, 1626-1628) recognized the continuation, in items 650.08, 650.10, 650.38, 650.40 and 650.54, of such prior concessions, with the modifications made by Proclamation No. 3548, in the case of knives, forks and spoons with stainless steel handles valued under 25 cents each and not over 10.2 inches in overall length (hereinafter referred to as "stainless steel flatware") and Proclamation No. 3822, without modifying the rates of duty applicable thereto, proclaimed the modification of the classification of stainless steel flatware in the TSUS to correspond with its classification in such Protocol; 7. WHEREAS Article X X V H I of the General Agreement, as amended by the 1955 Protocol and proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3513, provides that a contracting party may, on compliance with specified procedures, modify or withdraw concessions in its schedules to the General Agreement; 8. WHEREAS, pursuant to the procedures of Article X X V H I, the stainless steel flatware concessions under the General Agreement have been modified by the insertion of a note after note 5 in unit E of chapter 3 of section 6 of part I of Schedule XX to the Geneva (1967) Protocol, so as to permit the establishment of the tariff-rate quota hereinafter proclaimed;

82 Stat. 1455.

'^^ Stat. 970.

i9 UST 1620.

9. WHEREAS, in accordance with such note, the average imports from sources of supply during calendar years 1968 and 1969 are to be used for the sole purpose of providing a basis for the allocation of the tariff-rate quota hereinafter proclaimed among such sources and I determine that the allocation of such tariff-rate quota on such basis shall be as hereinafter proclaimed; 10. WHEREAS, subject to certain limitations, section 350 (a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act and section 2 0 1 (a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 authorize the President to proclaim such modi^

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H^^^'c Ittu J^ Stat. 872. 19 USC 1821.

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