Proclamation 4253—Proclamation Amending Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States With Respect to the Importation of Agricultural Commodities

Whereas, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624), limitations have been imposed by Presidential_ proclamations on the quantities of certain dairy products which may be imported into the United States in any quota year; and

Whereas the import restrictions proclaimed pursuant to said section 22 are set forth in part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States; and

Whereas the Secretary of Agriculture has reported to me that he believes that additional quantities of butter, butter substitutes containing butterfat and butter oil provided for in items 950.05 and 950.06 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) may be entered for a temporary period without rendering or tending to render ineffective, or materially interfering with, the price support program now conducted by the Department of Agriculture for milk or reducing substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic milk; and

Whereas, under the authority of section 22, I have requested the United States Tariff Commission to make an investigation with respect to this matter; and

Whereas the Secretary of Agriculture has determined and reported to me that a condition exists with respect to such articles provided for in items 950.05 and 950.06 of the TSUS which requires emergency treatment and that the quantitative limitation imposed on such articles should be increased during the period ending December 31, 1973, without awaiting the recommendations of the United States Tariff Commission with respect to such action; and

Whereas I find and declare that the entry during the period ending December 31, 1973, of additional quantities of 56,000,000 pounds of the articles provided for in item 950.05 of the TSUS and 22,600,000 pounds of the articles provided for in item 950.06 of the TSUS will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the price support program which is being undertaken by the Department of Agriculture for milk and will not reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic milk; and that a condition exists which requires emergency treatment and that the quantitative limitations imposed on such articles should be increased during such period without awaiting the recommendations of the United States Tariff Commission with respect to such action;

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President, and in conformity with the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and the Tariff Classification Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that headnote 3 (a) of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is temporarily amended by adding a new subdivision as follows:

(viii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, 56,000,000 pounds of the articles described in item 950.05 and 22,600,000 pounds of the articles described in item 950.06 may be entered during the period beginning November 1, 1973, and ending December 31, 1973, in addition to the annual quota quantities specified for such articles under items 950.05 and 950.06, and import licenses shall not be required for entering such additional quantities. No individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other legal entity (including its affiliates or subsidiaries) may during such period enter pursuant to this provision an aggregate quantity of such additional articles in excess of 2,500,000 pounds. The 56,000,000 pounds of the articles described in item 950.05 shall be allocated among supplying countries as follows:

Supplying country	Quantity in pounds
New Zealand	28,560,000
Member States of the European Economic Community	24,640,000
Other Countries as follows: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland	2,800,000

The additional quota quantities provided for herein shall continue in effect pending Presidential action upon receipt of the report and recommendations of the Tariff Commission with respect thereto.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-eighth.

RICHARD NIXON