Proclamation 3886—Effective Date of Public Law 90-635, An Act for Implementing Conventions for Free Admission of Professional Equipment and Containers, and for ATA, ECS, and TIR Carnets

Whereas Section 4 of Public Law 90-635, an Act for implementing Conventions for Free Admission of Professional Equipment and Containers, and for ATA, E C S, and T I R Carnets (82 Stat. 1351), provides that each of sections 1 through 3 of the Act shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after a date which shall be proclaimed by the President, which date shall be consonant with the entering into force for the United States of the customs convention or conventions which such section implements; and

Whereas all the customs conventions which sections 1 through 3 implement will enter into force for the United States on March 3, 1969.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, 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 Section 4 of Public Law 90-635, an Act for implementing Conventions for Free Admission of Professional Equipment and Containers, and for ATA, ECS, and TIR Carnets, do proclaim that sections 1 through 3 of that Act shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after March 3, 1969.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON