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 104 STAT. 5380 PROCLAMATION 6179—SEPT. 13, 1990 support program for sugar beets and sugarcane. With respect to imports of sugars, syrups, and molasses from all CBERA beneficiary countries except the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Panama, section 213(d)(1)(A) requires that "duty-free treatment shall be provided in the same manner as it is provided pursuant to title V of the Trade Act of 1974...." With respect to imports of sugars, syrups, and molasses from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Panama, paragraph (2) of section 213(d) provides for absolute quotas and further provides that such quantities of sugars, syrups, and molasses shall be admitted free of duty. However, the President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, may suspend the quantitative limitations imposed under paragraph (2) if he determines such action will not interfere with the price support program for sugar beets and sugarcane and is appropriate in light of market conditions and may suspend duty-free treatment for all or part of the quantity of sugar, syrups, and molasses permitted to be entered by paragraph (2) if such action is necessary to protect the price-support program for sugar beets and sugarcane. 7. Section 1204(c)(3) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (19 U.S.C. 3004(c)(3)) provides that if a rate of duty established in column 1 of the HTS by the President is higher than the existing rate of duty in column 2, the President may increase the rate in column 2 to the higher rate established in column 1. 8. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the provisions of that act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions taken thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction. 9. I find that the modifications hereinafter proclaimed of the import duty rates, and the quantitative limitations thereof, on the importation of sugar, syrups, and molasses classified in subheadings 1701.11.00, 1701.12.00, 1701.91.20, 1701.99.00, 1702.90.30, 1806.10.40, and 2106.90.10 of the HTS are required and appropriate to give due consideration to the interests in the United States sugar market of domestic producers and materially affected contracting parties to the GATT. 10. Having considered the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, including the anticipated impact on United States producers of like or directly competitive products, I further find that the limitations, hereinafter proclaimed, of the application of the duty-free treatment accorded under section 501 of that act with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses classified under subheadings 1701.11.00, 1701.12.00, 1701.91.20, 1701.99.00, 1702.90.30, 1806.10.40, and 2106.90.10 of the HTS are necessary and appropriate. 11. I find that there are currently in effect proclamations issued by the President pursuant to the authority vested in him by section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624), to protect a price-support program for sugar beets and sugarcane, including Proclamation No. 4940 of May 5, 1982, Proclamation No. 5071 of June 28, 1983, Proclamation No. 5164 of March 19, 1984, Proclamation No. 5294 of January 28, 1985, Proclamation No. 5313 of March 29, 1985, and Proclamation No. 5340 of May 17, 1985. Accordingly, I determine that the duty-free treatment of sugars, syrups, and molasses imported from beneficiary countries under the CBERA and classified under subhead-

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