Proclamation 3485—Allocating to Certain Western Hemisphere Countries Part of the Sugar Which Would Have Been Allocated to Cuba

Whereas section 202(c) (4) of the Sugar Act of 1948 (P.L. 87-535 and 87-539) provides as follows:

"(4) (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of this subsection, whenever the United States is not in diplomatic relations with any country named in paragraph (3) of this subsection and during such period after resumption of diplomatic relations with such country as the Secretary determines is required to permit an orderly adjustment in the channels of commerce for sugar, the proration or allocation provided for in paragraph (3) of this subsection shall not be made to such country, and a quantity of sugar not to exceed an amount equal to the proration or allocation which would have been made but for the provisions of this paragraph, may be authorized for purchase and importation from foreign countries, except that all or any part of such quantity need not be purchased from any country with which the United States is not in diplomatic relations, or from any country designated by the President whenever he finds and proclaims that such action is required in the national interest. In authorizing the purchase and importation of sugar from foreign countries under this paragraph, special consideration shall be given to countries of the Western Hemisphere and to those countries purchasing United States agricultural commodities.

"(B) Of the quantity authorized for purchase and importation under subparagraph (A), the President is authorized to allocate to countries within the Western Hemisphere, for the six-month period ending December 31, 1962, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate 75,000 short tons, and for the calendar years 1963 and 1964, an amount of sugar, raw value, not exceeding in the aggregate 150,000 short tons."; and

Whereas the allocation of sugar authorized under the provisions of section 202(c) (4) (B) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is dependent upon a quantity of sugar being available for purchase and importation in accordance with the provisions of section 202(c) (4) (A) of the Act, during the six-month period ending December 31, 1962, and each of the calendar years 1963 and 1964:

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 202 (c) (4) (B) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, do hereby allocate, of the quantities authorized for purchase and importation under section 202(c) (4) (A) of such Act, the following quantities of sugar, raw value, as sugar which may be imported into the continental United States from the specified countries for the specified periods pursuant to section 202(c) (4) (B) of such Act:

1. For the six-month period ending December 31, 1962:

a.     From Argentina 10,000 short tons, and

b.     From the Dominican Republic 65,000 short tons.

2. For each of the calendar years 1963 and 1964:

a.            From Argentina 20,000 short tons, and

b.            From the Dominican Republic 130,000 short tons.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the city of Washington this 19th day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State