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Letter to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means Transmitting Reports Concerning Trade Barriers on Wine

… submitting to you the country reports required by Title IX, Section 905(b), of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984. These reports concern the trade barriers on wine that are maintained by … inconsistent with existing international trade rules. Notably, several countries maintain high tariff barriers. Under current law, I have no tariff-cutting authority to negotiate reductions in foreign tariffs, a problem that also …

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Proclamation 5313 -- Suspension and Modification of Import Fees on Certain Sugars, Sirups and Molasses

… require the termination of those import fees for articles described in item 956.15 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) and the modification of those import fees for … for item 956.15 and the provisions of headnote 4(c) of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States are suspended. B. Items 956.05 and 957.15 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States are amended by inserting ``One cent per pound'' in place of …

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the Israel-United States Free Trade Area Agreement

… 22, 1985. This historic Agreement was negotiated under the terms of Title IV of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 (P.L. 98 - 573) and provides for the creation of a Free Trade Area between the … to an $8 billion market in which we currently face relatively high duties and certain non-tariff barriers and in which we face a tariff disparity resulting from an Israeli agreement with the European Community. This Agreement …

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Memorandum on Pasta Product Exports From the European Economic Community

… proclaim an increase in duties on pasta products classified in items 182.35 and 182.36 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States imported from the EEC. This action has been necessitated by … Representative initiated an investigation in November, 1976 concerning the EEC's preferential tariff treatment with respect to citrus imports from certain Mediterranean countries. The … States pays a duty five times greater than that paid by other suppliers. This discriminatory tariff treatment has impaired the ability of U.S. citrus exporters to market their fruits in the …

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Proclamation 5294 -- Import Quotas on Certain Sugar Containing Articles

… Commission, the articles described in items 958.10 and 958.15 of Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) are practically certain to be imported into the … hereby proclaim as follows: (A) TSUS items 958.10 and 958.15 of Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States are continued in effect subject to the provisions of paragraph (C) below; (B) Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended by inserting in numerical sequence following …

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Executive Order 12538 -- Imports of Refined Petroleum Products From Libya

… Item Numbers: 475.05; 475.10; 475.15; 475.25; 475.30; 475.35; 475.45; 475.65; 475.70 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202). Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury may …

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Proclamations, February 21, 1985 (02/21/1985)

… of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Pursuant to section 308 of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98 - 573; 98 Stat. 2948, 3013) and section 128 of the Trade Act of … that the reduction to zero of existing column 1 duties provided for in the items of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) listed in section 128 is … numbering conflicts resulting from the redesignation of other provisions by the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984. Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, …

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Proclamation 5308 -- Designation of the Bahamas as a Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act Beneficiary

… specific provisions that Congress sought to have included in the eventual amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Proclamation 5133 is to be amended in order to bring the … in Paragraph A of the Annex amending language in general headnote 3(g)(ii)(B) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States and to replace it with the phrase ``appropriate party.'' In …

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Letter to the Chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission on the Suspension and Modification of Import Fees on Certain Sugars, Sirups and Molasses

… fees for the entry of raw sugar as described in item 956.15 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) and a modification of the import fees for TSUS items …

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Proclamation 5365 -- To Implement Reductions in U.S. Rates of Duty Pursuant to the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Agreement, and for Other Purposes

… FTA Act) (19 U.S.C. 2112 note) confers authority upon the President to proclaim changes in tariff treatment which the President determines are required or appropriate to carry out the … submitted to the Congress on April 29, 1985. I have determined that the modifications to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) set forth in Annexes I, VIII, IX, … and, if the product of a least developed developing country (LDDC), are eligible for full tariff reductions pursuant to certain trade agreements without staging. Previously, pursuant to …

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