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Memorandum on United States Tobacco Exports to Japan

… Government practices include: (1) the combination of a significant trade barrier (a 20 percent tariff and a high, largely ad valorem , excise tax) and an unreasonable, absolute investment … that Japan will take to improve our firms' access. The Government of Japan will suspend the tariff, reducing it to zero. It also will end the discriminatory deferral of excise tax payment …

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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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Statement by Assistant to the President for Press Relations Fitzwater on United States Trade Sanctions Against the European Economic Community

… the United States effective soon after January 1, 1988 , but will then immediately suspend the tariff increases so long as U.S. meat exports to the European Community continue uninterrupted. …

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Proclamations, May 15, 1986 (05/15/1986)

… I to this proclamation that are the product of the EEC. 4. In response to the withdrawal of tariff concessions and the application of the EEC variable levy on Spanish imports of corn and … to Section 301(a), (b), and (d)(1) of the Act, to take steps to suspend temporarily the tariff concessions made by the United States under the GATT on articles described in Annex II to … change in the rates of duty for these articles set forth in Rate of Duty Column 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS). If by July 1, 1986, the EEC provides adequate …

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Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on Trade With the European Community and Brazil

… measures, in accordance with U.S. rights under international rules of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT). Therefore, U.S. duties on certain agricultural products will be set at … of duties. He further indicated that the United States is prepared to restore the preexisting tariff rates at any time that there is agreement with the European Community to provide adequate …

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Proclamation 5923 -- To Implement the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement

… certain rules of origin. I have determined that it is necessary to include in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the rules of origin set forth in section 202 … (the Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2463 and 2464(c)), I have determined that certain preferential tariff treatment previously afforded for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) … subheadings established by Annex II to this Proclamation. 5. Pursuant to section 466 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1466), the rate of duty imposed on equipments, or any …

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Memorandum on Acid Imports From China

… paratungstate and tungstic acid, provided for in Items 417.40 and 416.40, respectively, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States. After considering all relevant aspects of the case, …

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Memorandum Announcing the Denial of Import Relief for the Non-rubber Footwear Industry

… 700.05 through 700.45, inclusive, 700.56, 700.72 through 700.83 inclusive, and 700.95 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States. While the escape clause provisions of the Trade Act of … would stand to suffer as much as $2.1 billion in trade damage either through compensatory tariff reductions or retaliatory actions by foreign suppliers. This would mean a loss of U.S. …

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White House Statement on Trade With Romania, Hungary, and China

… The President is forwarding to the Congress his determination to continue most favored nation tariff status for Romania, Hungary, and the People's Republic of China. MFN is a basic element in …

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Proclamation 5885 -- Increase in the Rates of Duty for Certain Articles From Brazil

… 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) the substance of the provisions of that Act, of … and Competitiveness Act of 1988 requires that I proclaim such modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), as enacted in section 1204 of that Act, as are …

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