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 97 STAT. 1596 PROCLAMATION 5071—JUNE 28, 1983 7 USC 624. (c) The imposition of the import quotas hereinafter proclaimed, without awaiting the recommendations of the United States International Trade Commission with respect to such action, is necessary in order that the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, of the articles de- scribed below will not materially interfere with the price support operations being conducted by the Department of Agriculture for sugar cane or sugar beets. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, and the Constitution and Statutes of the United States, including Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, do hereby proclaim as follows: 1. Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended by inserting in numerical sequence the following two items: Articles Quota Quantity 958.10 958.15 Blended sirups provided for in TSUS item 155.75, containing sugars derived from sugar cane or sugar beets, capable of being further processed or mixed with similar or other ingredients, and not prepared for marketing to the retail consumers in the identical form and package in which imported Articles containing over 65 percent by dry weight of sugars derived from sugar cane or sugar beets, whether or not mixed with other ingredients, capable of being further processed or mixed with similar or other ingredients, and not prepared for marketing to the retail consumers in the identical form and package in which imported; all the foregoing articles provided for in TSUS items 155.75, 156.45, 183.01, and 183.05, except articles within the scope of other import restrictions provided for in part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States None None 2. Pending Presidential action upon receipt of the report and recommenda- tions of the United States International Trade Commission on this matter, the quotas established by this proclamation shall apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the effective date of this proclamation. However, these quotas shall not apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, if the articles were (1} exported from the country of origin prior to the effective date of this proclamation, and (2) imported directly into the United States, as deter- mined by the appropriate customs officials, in accordance with the criteria set forth at 19 CFR 10.174, 10.175 (1982). 3. This proclamation shall be effective as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on the day following the date of its signing. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sev- enth. RONALD REAGAN Editorial Note: A letter from the President to the Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Com- mission on the import quotas, dated June 28, 1983, is printed in the Weekly Compilation of Presi- dential Documents (vol. 19, p. 946).

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