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 PROCLAMATION 4445—JUNE 11, 1976

90 STAT. 3107

Representative is hereby authorized to make any changes in part 2 of the Appendix to the T S U S which may be necessary to carry out said agreement or agreements, such changes to be effective on or after the date of their publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

(6) The authority to make changes in the quantitative restrictions provided for in this proclamation, as set forth in the Annex to this proclamation, is hereby delegated to the Special Representative. (7) The Commissioner of Customs shall take such action as the Special Representative shall direct to carry out the agreement described in paragraph (1) of this proclamation and any subsequent agreement or agreements negotiated pursuant to paragraph (4) of this proclamation, or any modifications thereof, with respect to entry or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption in the United States of products covered by such agreement or agreements. (8) This proclamation shall be effective as to those articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after June 14, 1976, and before the close of June 13, 1979, unless the period of its effectiveness is earlier expressly modified or terminated. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth. GERALD R.

FORD

ANNEX Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is modified— (a) by adding the following new headnote 2: "2. Quantitative limitations on stainless steel and alloy tool steel.—The provisions of this headnote apply to items 923.20 to 923.24, inclusive, of this subpart. The quantitative import limitations imposed are in addition to the duties provided for the restrained articles in schedule 6, part 2B. (a) Definitions.—For the purposes of this subpart— (i) the term "restraint period" refers to a 12-month period beginning June 14 in one year and ending at the close of June 13 of the following year; (ii) the term "European Economic Community" refers to an instrumentality of the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; (iii) the term "alloy tool steel" in item 923.24 refers to alloy steel which contains the following combinations of elements in the quantity, by weight, respectively indicated: not less than 1.0% carbon and over 11.0% chromium; or not less than 0.3% carbon and 1.25% to 11.0% inclusive chromium; or not less than 0.85% carbon and 1% to 1.8% inclusive manganese; or o0.9% to 1.2% inclusive chromium and 0.9% to 1.4% inclusive molybdenum; or not less than 0.5% carbon and not less than 3.5% molybdenum; or not less than 0.5% carbon and not less than 5.5% tungsten; (iv) the term "razor blade steel" in item 923.20 refers to stainless steel strip not over 0.010 inch in thickness and not over 0.9 inch in width, containing by weight not less than 0.6 percent and not over 0.75 percent carbon, and containing by weight not less than 11.5 percent and not over 14.7 percent chromium, certified at the time of entry to be used in the manufacture of razor blades.

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