Executive Order 11311—Carrying out Provisions of the Beirut Agreement of 1948 Relating to Audio-Visual Materials

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including the provisions of the Joint Resolution of October 8, 1966, Public Law 89-634, and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby order and proclaim that

1. Pursuant to section 3 (b) of the Joint Resolution, the amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States made by section 3 (a) of the Joint Resolution shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on and after January 1, 1967.

2. Pursuant to the "Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character", made at Beirut in 1948, the Joint Resolution, and headnote 1 to schedule 8, part 6 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, the United States Information Agency is hereby designated as the agency to carry out the provisions of the Agreement and related protocol, and to make any determinations and to prescribe any regulations required by headnote 1.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House,

October 14, 1966.