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 PROCLAMATION 4478—NOV. 26, 1976

91 STAT. 1713

withdraws, suspends, or modifies any obligation with respect to the trade of any foreign country or instrumentality thereof, the President is authorized to proclaim increased duties or other import restrictions, to the extent, at such times, and for such periods as he deems necessary or appropriate, in order to exercise the rights or fulfill the obligations of the United States. 6. Moreover, section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and section 350(a)(6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, authorize the termination, in whole or in part, of any proclamation issued pursuant to Title II of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, respectively.

19 USC 1885. 19 USC 1351. 19 USC 1821.

7. For purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences, the former TSUS items 168.20 and 168.22, providing for all brandy valued over $9 per gallon, were subdivided into new items 168.23, 168.26, 168.28, and 168.32, the first two of which apply to pisco and singani, which are types of brandy not produced in the EC, and the latter two of which provided for all other brandy valued over $9 per gallon. 8. In accordance with the requirements of the Trade Act of 1974, the Trade Policy Staff Committee held a public hearing on September 21 and 22, 1976, at which all interested persons were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard on the proposed duty increase on brandy. Public notice of the hearing was given on August 19, 1976 (41 FR 35107).

19 USC 2101.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States of America, including section 125(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and section 350(a)(6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, in the exercise of the rights of the United States, do hereby proclaim, until the President otherwise proclaims or until otherwise superseded bylaw, that: A. Proclamation 4304 of July 16, 1974, is terminated; and

88 Stat. 2494.

B. Item 945.16 of Subpart B of part 2 of the Appendix to the TariflF Schedules of the United States (TSUS), is amended to read as follows: Item

Article

945.16

Rate of Duty 1 2 $3 per No gallon Change

Brandy valued over $13 per gallon provided for in item 168.28, and brandy valued over $9 per gallon provided for in item 168.32 The modifications of Subpart B of Part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS, made by this proclamation, shall be effective as to all articles that are both (i) imported, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption,

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on or after December 10, 1976. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and first. GERALD R. FORD

19 USC 1202.

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