Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 5.djvu/946

 100 STAT. 4420

PROCLAMATION 5453—MAR. 31, 1986

4. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483} confers authority upon the President to embody in the TSUS the substance of the relevant provisions of that Act, of other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, do proclaim that: ,r,, (1] In order to provide preferential tariff treatment under the GSP to certain countries which have been excluded from the benefits of the GSP for certain eligible articles imported from such countries, following my determination that a country not previously receiving such benefits should again be treated as a beneficiary developing country with respect to such article, the Rates of Duty Special column for each of the TSUS items enumerated in Annex I to this proclamation is modified: (a] by deleting from such column for such TSUS items the symbol "A*" in parentheses, and (b) by inserting in such column the symbol "A" in lieu thereof. (2) In order to provide that one or more countries should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to an eligible article for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty Special column for the TSUS items enumerated in Annex II to this proclamation is modified: (a) by deleting from each such item the symbol "A" in parentheses, and (b] by inserting in such column the symbol "A*" in lieu thereof. (3) General headnote 3(e](v](D) to the TSUS, hsting those articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP except when imported from the beneficiary countries listed opposite the enumerated TSUS items for those articles, is modified as provided in Annex III to this proclamation. (4) The eligible articles imported from designated beneficiary developing countries and provided for in the TSUS items enumerated in Annex IV to this proclamation shall not be subject to the limitations of section 504(c)(1)(B) of the Trade Act, as amended. (5) Proclamation 5365 of August 30, 1985 (50 FR 36220) is superseded to the extent inconsistent with this proclamation. (6) The modifications to the TSUS made by this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (a) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (b) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 1986. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth. RONALD REAGAN '.J

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ANNEX I Articles Eligible for Preferential Treatment Under the GSP When Imported From Any Beneficiary Developing Country ,, -;,

107.48 137.40 146.44 176.15

220.25 222.10 602.10 603.40

646.90 651.33 652.60 653.85

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