Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1526

 93 STAT. 1494

19 USC 1202.

PROCLAMATION 4640—FEB. 23, 1979

4. Pursuant to sections 203[a)(3) and 203(e)(l] of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(3] and 2253(e)(1)), I am providing import relief through the temporary imposition of a quota on U.S. imports of wood and plastic spring-type clothespins with a dutiable value not over $1.70 per gross provided for under TSUS item 790.05. 5. In accordance with section 203(d)(2) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(d)(2)), I have determined that the level of import relief hereinafter proclaimed pursuant to section 203(a)(3) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(3)), permits the importation into the United States of a quantity or value of articles which is not less than the average annual quantity or value of such articles imported into the United States in the 73/78 period, which I have determined to be the most recent representative period for imports of such articles. 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 sections 203 and 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253 and 2483), and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 UST (pt. 2) 1786), do proclaim that— (1) Part 1 of Schedule XX to the GATT is modified to conform with the actions taken in the Annex to this proclamation.

19 USC 1202.

(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 (3) This proclamation shall be effective as to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 23, 1979, and before the close of February 22, 1982, unless the period of its effectiveness is earlier expressly modified or terminated. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred-third. JIMMY CARTER 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: "6. Quantitative limitations on certain clothespins.—The provisions of this headnote apply to items 925.11, 925.12 and 925.13 of this subpart. (a) Definitions.—For the purposes of this headnote— (i) The term "restraint period" refers to the 3-month periods provided for in the Quota Quantity column for items 925.11, 925.12 and 925.13; (ii) The term "quota year" refers to a 12-month period beginning February 23 in one year and ending at the close of February 22 of the following year. (b) Carryover.—Whenever the quota quantity specified for an item has not been entered during any restraint period, the shortfall may be entered in the same item during the following restraint period in any quota year and not be counted against the quota quantity therefor. (c) Shortfall.—Whenever the Special Trade Representative determines that the full quota quantity for item 925.11, 925.12, or 925.13, respectively, will not be used during a quota year, the Special Trade Representative may modify the quota quantities for that item during the remainder of that quota year to reallocate the shortfall to the other items; such modifications to be effective on the date of their publication in the Federal Register."; and (b) by inserting in numerical sequence the following new provisions:

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