Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1475

 PROCLAMATION 4609—NOV. 28, 1978

93 STAT. 1443

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including General Headnote 4 of the TSUS (19 U.S.C. 1202), sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253 and 2483), and in accordance with Articles I and XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A 12 and 61 Stat. (pt. 5) A 58: 8 UST (pt. 2) 1786). do proclaim that— (1) Part I of Schedule XX to the GATT is modified to conform to the actions taken in the Annex to this proclamation. (2) Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS is modified as set forth in the Annex to this proclamation. (3) This proclamation shall be effective as to those articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after November 17, 1978, and before the close of November 16, 1981, unless the period of its effectiveness is earlier expressly modified or terminated. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and third.

USC prec. title 1.

61 Stat. A1157. 19 USC 1202.

JIMMY CARTER

ANNEX Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS is modified by inserting in numerical sequence the following new provision: Rates of Duty Articles

Item 923.18

1

2

Period

Ferrochromium, containing over 3 percent by weight of carbon, valued less than 38 cents per pound, provided for in item 607.31 4.625(( 4.625« On or per per before lb. on lb. on 11/15/81 chrochromium mium content content

Proclamation 4609

•

November 28, 1978

Bill of Rights Day Human Rights Day and Week, 1978

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Two great events in the history of human liberty will be commemorated in December: the ratification, on December 15, 1791, of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States, and the adoption, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. The anniversary of the Bill of Rights reminds us that our Nation is a continuing experiment in human freedom. Because of the Bill of Rights, we have been able to weather 187 years of tumultuous social and technological change without losing our fundamental liberties. Indeed, those liberties have actually expanded in scope, and

USC prec. title 1.

�