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 PUBLIC LAW 96-177—DEC. 31, 1979

93 STAT. 1291

Public Law 96-177 96th Congress

An Act To modiiy the method of establishing quotas on the importation of certain meat, to include within such quotas certain meat products, and for other purposes.

Dec. 31, 1979 [H.R. 2727]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 2 of theMeat imports, Act of August 22, 1964, entitled "An Act to provide for the free quota importation of certain wild animals, and to provide for the imposition modifications. of quotas on certain meat and meat products" (19 U.S.C. 1202 note) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) This section may be cited as the 'Meat Import Act of Meat Import Act of 1979. 1979'. "(b) For purposes of this section— Definitions. "(1) The term 'entered* means entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in the customs territory of the United States. "(2) The term 'meat articles* means the articles provided for in the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) under— "(A) item 106.10 (relating to fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat); "(B) items 106.22 and 106.25 (relating to fresh, chilled, or frozen meat of goats and sheep (except lambs)); and "(C) items -107.55 and 107.62 (relating to prepared and preserved beef and veal (except sausage)), if the saticles are prepared, whether fresh, chilled, or frozen, but not otherwise preserved. "(3) The term 'Secretary* means the Secretary of Agriculture. "(c) The aggregate quantity of meat articles which may be entered in any calendar year after 1979 may not exceed 1,204,600,000 poimds; except that this aggregate quantity shall be— "(1) increased or decreased for any calendar year by the same percentage that the estimated average annual domestic commercial production of meat articles in that calendair ^ear and the 2 preceding calendar years increases or decreases in comparison with the average annual domestic commercial production of meat articles during calendar years 1968 through 1977; and "(2) adjusted further under subsection (d). For purposes of paragraph (1), the estimated annual domestic commercial production of meat articles for any calendar year does not include the carcass weight of live cattle specified in items 100.40, 100.43, 100.45, 100.53, and 100.55 of such Schedules entered during such year. "(d) The aggregate quantity referred to in subsection (c), as increased or decreased under paragraph (1) of such subsection, shall be adjusted further for any cmendar year after 1979 by multiplying such quantity by a fraction— "(1) the numerator of which is the average annual per capita production of domestic cow beef during that calendar year (as

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