Proclamation 4304—Termination, in Part, of the Suspension of Benefits of Trade Agreement Concessions and Adjustment of Duty on Certain Brandy

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States of America, including section 252(c) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1882(c)) and section 350 (a) (6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351(a) (6)), the President, in response to certain unreasonable import restrictions on poultry from the United States maintained by the European Economic Community (the EEC), suspended, by Proclamation No. 3564 of December 4, 1963, the application of the benefits of certain trade agreement concessions;

2. WHEREAS, the President has determined that it is in the interest of the United States to restore, in part, the application of the benefits of trade agreement concessions suspended by Proclamation No. 3564 in order to encourage the resolution of outstanding trade disputes between the United States and the EEC, including the removal of unreasonable import restrictions on poultry from the United States maintained by the EEC;

3. WHEREAS, 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 a 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.

Now, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, 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 255 (b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, in order to restore the application of the benefits of trade agreement concessions on certain brandy valued over $9 per gallon, suspended by Proclamation 3564 of December 4, 1963, do hereby proclaim—

(1) the termination of such part of Proclamation 3564 of December 4, 1963 as proclaims a rate of duty inconsistent with that provided for in the amendment made by paragraph (2) of this proclamation; and

(2) the amendment of subpart B of part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to read as follows:

The rates provided for in the amendment made by paragraph (2) of this proclamation shall be effective as to all articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after July 1, 1974.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth.

RICHARD NIXON