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Memorandum Directing the Termination of United States Restrictions on Agricultural Sales to the Soviet Union

April 24, 1981

Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce

I hereby direct that you, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and other appropriate officials, immediately terminate the current restrictions on the export of agricultural commodities and products to the Soviet Union imposed under authority of the Export Administration Act pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum to the Secretary of Commerce of January 7, 1980. I also direct that you terminate restrictions imposed on the export of phosphate rock and related commodities by virtue of the regulations of the Department of Commerce published on February 7, 1980.

RONALD REAGAN

Ronald Reagan, Memorandum Directing the Termination of United States Restrictions on Agricultural Sales to the Soviet Union Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247042

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