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PROCLAMATION 4238-AUG. 28, 1973

[87 STAT.

WHEREAS, the Secretary of Agriculture has determined and reported to me that a condition exists with respect to nonfat dry milk which requires emergency treatment and that the quantitative limitation imposed on nonfat dry milk should be increased during the period ending October 31, 1973, without awaiting the recommendations of the United States Tariff Commission with respect to such action; and WHEREAS, I find and declare that the entry during the period ending October 31, 1973, of an additional quantity of 100,000,000 pounds of nonfat dry milk will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the price support program which is being undertaken by the Department of Agriculture for milk and will not reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic milk; and that a condition exists which requires emergency treatment and that the quantitative limitation imposed on nonfat dry milk should be increased during such period without awaiting the recommendations of the United States Tariff Commission with respect to such action;

es^ilT^s^^' 7 USC 624. 19 USC prec. 1202 note.

Ante, p. 1149. 77A Stat. 27. 19 USC 1202.

77A Stat. 442.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President, and in conformity with the provisions of section ^^ °^ ^^^ Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and the Tariff Classification Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that subdivision (vi) of hcaduotc 3(a) of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the .

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United States is amended to read as follows: (vi) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, 25,000,000 pounds of dried milk described in item 115.50 may be entered during the period beginning December 30^ 1972, and ending February 15, 1973, 60,000,000 pounds of such milk may be entered during the period beginning May 11, 1973, and ending June 30, 1973, 80,000,000 pounds of such milk may be entered during the period beginning July 19, 1973, and ending August 31, 1973, and 100,000,000 pounds of such milk may be entered during the period beginning the day after the date of issuance of this proclamation and ending October 31, 1973, in addition to the annual quota quantity specified for such article under item 950.02, and import licenses shall not be required for entering such additional quantities. No individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other legal entity (including its affiliates or subsidiaries) may during each such period enter pursuant to this provision quantities of such additional dried milk totaling in excess of 2,500,000 pounds. The 100,000,000 pound additional quota quantity authorized to be entered during the period ending October 31, 1973, shall be allocated among supplying countries as follows: Supplying

Country

Australia New Zealand Canada Member States of the European Economic Community

Quantity

in Pounds 25, 000, 000 25,000,000 10, 000, 000 40, 000, 000

The 100,000,000 pound additional quota quantity provided for herein shall continue in effect pending Presidential action upon receipt of the report and recommendations of the Tariff Commission with respect thereto. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentyeighth day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-

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