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Executive Order 11978—Trade Involving Southern Rhodesia

March 18, 1977

RELATING TO TRADE AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS

INVOLVING SOUTHERN RHODESIA

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States of America, Section 4 of Executive Order No. 11419 of July 29, 1968, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection:

"(c) The Secretary of the Treasury may exempt from the provisions of this Order, and Executive Order No. 11322, as amended, any shipment of chromium in any form which is in transit to the United States on March 18, 1977.".

JIMMY CARTER

The White House,

March 18, 1977.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:51 p.m., March 18, 1977]

Note: The Executive order was not issued in the form of a White House press release.

Jimmy Carter, Executive Order 11978—Trade Involving Southern Rhodesia Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/243122

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