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                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                        (Kansas City, Missouri)

For Immediate Release                                      April 7, 1998

                            EXECUTIVE ORDER
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                WAIVER UNDER THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 WITH
                           RESPECT TO VIETNAM

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 402(c)(2) 
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended ("Act")(19 U.S.C. 2432(c)(2)), 
which continues to apply to Vietnam pursuant to section 402(d) of the 
Act, and having made the report to the Congress required by section 
402(c)(2) of the Act, I hereby waive the application of sections 402(a) 
and 402(b) of the Act with respect to Vietnam.

                                   WILLIAM J. CLINTON

                                   THE WHITE HOUSE,
                                   April 7, 1998.
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