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Proclamations and the rest

Everything the President has signed since the term began that is not an executive order: proclamations, memoranda, notices continuing a national emergency, and the findings a statute requires before something can happen. None of these print numbered sections, so each is held whole and quoted from its opening.

In plain English

The President signs more than orders. A proclamation marks a day or sets a trade rule. A notice keeps an emergency in force. A memorandum tells one agency what to do.

None of these print numbered parts, so each is held whole and quoted from its start.

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documents
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proclamations
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notices
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memoranda
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determinations

What These Are

Determinations. A determination is a finding a statute requires the President to make before something can happen: that a country qualifies, that a waiver is justified, that a transfer is in the national interest.

Memoranda. A memorandum instructs a named department or agency. It works much as an order does, without the number and the sections.

Notices. A national emergency lapses after a year unless the President continues it. A notice is that continuation, and it says which emergency and which order declared it.

Proclamations. A proclamation speaks to the country rather than to the government. Most mark a day or an occasion; some carry real legal effect, and the tariff proclamations are the ones that do.