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 PROCLAMATION 4711—JAN. 4, 1980

94 STAT. 3705

Proclamation 4711 of January 4, 1980

Staged Reduction of Rates of Duty on Certain Products To Carry Out Trade Agreements With Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago and With the Countries Forming the Cartegena Agreement By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. I have determined, pursuant to section 101(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 (the Trade Act] (19 U.S.C. 2111(a)), that certain existing duties of the United States are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that one or more of the purposes of the Trade Act would be pro- 19 USC 2101. moted by entering into the trade agreements identified in the third recital of this proclamation. 2. Sections 131(a), 132, and 133, 134, 135, and 161(b) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2151(a), 2152, 2153, 2154, 2155 and 2211(b)) and section 4(c) of Executive Order No. 11846 of March 27, 1975, have been complied with. 19 USC 2111 note. 3. Pursuant to Title I of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2111 et seg.), I have, through my duly empowered representative, entered into product-specific trade agreements with Indonesia, on November 29, 1979, with Trinidad and Tobago on December 19, 1979, and with the countries forming the Cartegena Agreement on December 14, 1979, pursuant to which United States rates of duty on certain products would be modified as hereinafter proclaimed and as provided for in the annexes to this proclamation, in exchange for certain measures which will benefit United States interests. 4. In order to implement the trade agreements referred to in the third recital of this proclamation it is necessary to modify the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) as provided for in the annexes to this proclamation, attached hereto and made a part hereof. 5. Pursuant to section 855(a) of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (93 Stat. 295), I have determined that, in the case of bitters containing spirits classified under item 168.12 of the TSUS, adequate reciprocal concessions have been received, under the trade agreement identified in the third recital of this proclamation which was entered into under the Trade Act of 1974, with Trinidad and Tobago, for the application of the rate of duty appearing in rate column numbered 1 for such item on January 1, 1979, or the comparable item determined on a proof gallon basis. 6. Each modification of existing duty proclaimed herein which provides with respect to an article for a decrease in duty below the limitation specified in section 101(b)(i) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2111(b)(i)) is authorized by one or more of the following provisions or statutes: (a) Section 101(b)(2) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2111(b)(2)), by virtue of the fact that the rate of duty existing on January 1, 1975, appHcable to the article was not more than 5 percent as valorem (or ad valorem equivalent); (b) Section 109 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2119(b)), by virtue of the fact that I have determined, pursuant to that section, that the decrease authorized by that section will simplify the computation of the amount of duty imposed with respect to the article; and

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