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PROCLAMATION 6179—SEPT. 13, 1990 104 STAT. 5381 ings 1701.11.00, 1701.12.00, 1701.91.20, 1701.99.00, 1702.90.30, 1806.10.40, and 2106.90.10 of the HTS must be subject to the limitations hereinafter proclaimed, corresponding to the limitation of duty-free treatment for the same articles when imported from designated beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), as is provided pursuant to title V of the Trade Act of 1974. 12.1 further find and determine, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, that the suspension of the quantitative limitations imposed under paragraph [2) of section 213(d) of the CBERA, as hereinafter proclaimed, will not interfere with the price support program for sugar beets and sugarcane and is appropriate in light of market conditions and that the suspension of duty-free treatment for part of the quantity of sugar, syrups, and molasses permitted to be entered by paragraph (2) of that act, as hereinafter proclaimed, is necessary to protect the price-support program for sugar beets and sugarcane. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including but not limited to the provisions of title I of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended; sections 501, 502, 504, and 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended; section 213 of the CBERA; section 1204 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988; additional U.S. note 2 to chapter 17 of the HTS; and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, do hereby proclaim: (1) Subheadings 1701.11.00, 1701.12.00, 1701.91.20, 1701.99.00, 1702.90.30, 1806.10.40, and 2106.90.10 of the HTS are modified as provided in Annex I to this proclamation. (2) Additional U.S. notes 3 and 4 to chapter 17 of the HTS are modified as provided in Armex II to this proclamation. (3) The duty-free treatment accorded to sugars, syrups, and molasses described in subheadings 1701.11.01, 1701.12.01, 1701.91.21, 1701.99.01, 1702.90.31, 1806.10.41, and 2106.90.11 of the HTS, which are imported from beneficiary countries for purposes of the GSP and CBERA, shall be limited to the quantities as established and allocated pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of additional U.S. note 3 to chapter 17 of the HTS. Duty-free treatment shall be accorded to the importation of sugars, which are imported from the beneficiary countries for purposes of the GSP and CBERA, as described in subheading 1701.11.02 of the HTS. Duty-free treatment shall not be accorded to the importation of sugars, syrups, and molasses, imported from beneficiary countries for purposes of the GSP and CBERA, as described in subheadings 1701.11.03, 1701.12.02, 1701.91.22, 1701.99.02, 1702.90.32, 1806.10.42, and 2106.90.12 of the HTS. Accordingly, the quantitative limitations imposed under paragraph (2) of section 213(d) of the CBERA are hereby suspended. (4) All previous proclamations issued under the authority vested in the President by section 201 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821) and headnote 2 of subpart A of part 10 of schedule 1 of the former TSUS, with respect to rates of duty or quantitative limitations on the importation of sugars, syrups, and molasses, including Proclamation No. 4334 of November 16, 1974, Proclamation No. 4463 of September 21, 1976, Proclamation No. 4466 of October 4, 1976, Proclamation No. 4539 of November 11, 1977, Proclamation No. 4610 of November 30,