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 90 STAT. 3126

PROCLAMATION 4463—SEPT. 21, 1976

Proclamation 4463

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September 21, 1976

Modification of Tariffs on Certain Sugars, Sirups and Molasses By the President of the United States of America • i'i.

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A Proclamation

7 USC 1100.

1. By Proclamation 4334 of November 16, 1974, the President modified Subpart A, Part 10, Schedule 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202, hereinafter referred to as the " T S U S ") to establish, effective January 1, 1975, follevying expiration of the Sugar Act of 1948, a rate of duty and quota applicable to sugars, syrups, and molasses described in items 155.20 and 155.30 of the T S U S. 2. The President took the action described in recital 1 pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Section 2 0 1 (a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1 8 2 1 (a)(2)) and in conformity with Headnote 2 of Subpart A of Part 10 of Schedule 1 of the T S U S, which was added to the T S U S by Proclamation No. 3822 of December 16, 1967 (82 Stat. 1455), to carry out a trade agreement concluded pursuant to Section 201(a) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821(a)) consisting of the 1967 Geneva Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including annexed thereto "Schedule X X ", a schedule of United States trade concessions, together with the Final Act Authenticating the Results of the 1964-67 Trade Conference Held under the Auspices of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement. 3. Headnote 2, Subpart A, Part 10 of Schedule 1 of the T S U S, which is based upon said trade agreement, provides in relevant part as follows: " (i) That, if the President finds that a particular rate not lower than such January 1, 1968, rate, limited by a particular quota, may be established for any articles provided for in item 155.20 or 155,30, which will give due consideration to the interests in the United States sugar market of domestic producers and materially affected contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, he shall proclaim such particular rate and such quota limitation,... "(ii) That any rate and quota limitation so established shall be modified if the President finds and proclaims that such modification is required or appropriate to give effect to the above considerations;..."

4. Section 2 0 1 (a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act authorizes the President to proclaim the modification or continuance of any existing duty or other import restriction or such additional import restrictions as he determines to be required or appropriate to carry out any trade agreement entered into under the authority of that Act. 5. I find that the modifications hereinafter proclaimed of the rates of duty applicable to items 155.20 and 155.30 of the T S U S, as established by Proclamation 4334, are appropriate to carry out the portion of a trade agreement referred to in recitals 2 and 3, and give due consideration to the interests in the United States sugar market of domestic producers and materially affected contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. u s e prec. title 1.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FOR D, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes.

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