Proclamation 4298—Proclamation Modifying 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 wheat and milled wheat products which may be imported into the United States in any quota year; and

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

Whereas, at my request, the United States Tariff Commission has made an investigation under the authority of subsection (d) of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act to determine whether the import quotas on wheat and milled wheat products provided for in item 950.60 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) may be suspended without rendering or tending to render ineffective, or materially interfering with, the loan and payment programs now conducted by the Department of Agriculture for wheat or reducing substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic wheat; and

Whereas the United States Tariff Commission submitted an interim report to me with respect to this matter and on the basis of such investigation and report, pursuant to section 22, the quantitative limitations for the articles provided for in TSUS item 950.60 were suspended during the period beginning January 26, 1974, and ending June 30, 1974; and

Whereas the United States Tariff Commission has submitted a further report to me with respect to this matter; and

Whereas, on the basis of such investigation and further report, I find and declare that the entry of additional quantities of wheat and milled wheat products resulting from the suspension of the quantitative limitations provided for in item 950.60 of the TSUS will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the loan and payment programs now being conducted by the Department of Agriculture for wheat and will not reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic wheat, that the circumstances which required the imposition of such quantitative limitations on wheat and milled wheat products no longer exist, and that such quantitative limitations should be suspended:

Now, Therefore, I, Richard M. 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 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph (c) as follows:

"(c) Suspension. Notwithstanding any other provision of this part; the quantitative limitations for the articles provided for in item 950.60 are suspended beginning January 26, 1974."

I further proclaim that subdivision (ix) of paragraph (a) of said headnote 3 is superseded.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-eighth.

RICHARD NIXON