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Executive Order 11449—Participation in the International Coffee Organization

January 17, 1969

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States of America, the International Coffee Agreement Act of 1968 (Title III of Public Law 90-634, approved October 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1348), hereinafter referred to as the Act, the International Coffee Agreement, 1962, as continued by the International Coffee Agreement, 1968, ratified November 1, 1968, and proclaimed November 18, 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Secretary of State. Subject to the provisions of this order, the powers of the President involved in the participation of the United States of America in the Agreement, including so much of the functions conferred upon the President by the Act as is neither reserved nor delegated to other officers herein, are hereby delegated to the Secretary of State.

SEC. 2. Secretary of the Treasury. The functions conferred upon the President by subsections (1) (A) and (B) and (2) of section 302 of the Act, together with the authority to issue and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to perform those functions, are hereby delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 3. Secretaries of State, the Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. The functions conferred upon the President by subsection (3) of section 302 of the Act, together with the authority to issue and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to perform those functions, are hereby delegated to the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, severally.

SEC. 4. Functions reserved. There are hereby reserved to the President the functions conferred upon him by sections 304, 305, 306 and subsections (1) (C) and (4) of section 302 of the Act.

SEC. 5. Coordination. The functions assigned by the provisions of this order shall be performed under effective coordination. The measures of coordination hereunder shall include the following:

(1) In effecting and carrying out the participation of the United States of America in the Agreement, the Secretary of State shall consult with the appropriate heads of Federal agencies, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor.

(2) The delegates under section 3 of this order shall use the functions delegated thereunder as they and the Secretary of State shall mutually agree.

SEC. 6. Redelegation. Each Secretary mentioned in this order is hereby authorized to redelegate within his Department the functions hereinabove assigned to him.

SEC. 7. Prior orders. (a) Executive Order No. 11225 of May 22, 1965 shall continue in force subject to the following amendment: Insert the phrase "as continued by the International Coffee Agreement, 1968" after the phrase "TIAS 5055)".

(b) Executive Order No. 11229 of June 14, 1965 is hereby revoked.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

January 17, 1969

NOTE: Executive Order 11449 was not made public in the form of a White House press release.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11449—Participation in the International Coffee Organization Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/305919

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