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PROCLAMATION 5050—APR. 15, 1983 97 STAT. 1575 quotas to assure small volume producers which have not contributed to the threat of injury continued access to the United States market. In order to treat Japan fairly, I determined to provide a tariff-rate quota also for arti- cles from Japan. On April 1, 1983, in accordance with section 203(b](l] of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(bKl]], I transmitted a report to the Congress setting forth the action I determined to take and the reason it differed from the action recommended by the USITC. 3. Section 503(c)(2) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2463(c)(2)) provides that no article shall be an eligible article for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for any period during which such article is the subject of any action proclaimed pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253). 4. Section 203(e)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(e)(1)) requires that import relief be proclaimed and take effect within 15 days after the import relief determination date. 5. Pursuant to sections 203(a)(1), 203(e)(1), and 503(c)(2) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(1), 2253(e)(1), and 2463(c)(2)), I am providing import relief through the temporary increase of import duties imposed in the form of tariff-rate quotas, and the suspension of GSP treatment, on certain motorcy- cles, as hereinafter proclaimed. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including General Headnote 4 of the TSUS, sections 203, 503, and 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253, 2463, and 2483), and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 UST (pt. 2) 1786), do pro- claim that— (1) Part I of Schedule XX to the GATT is modified to conform to the action 61 Stat. A1157. taken in Annex I to this proclamation. (2) Subpart B, part 6 of schedule 6 and subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS are modified as set forth in Annex I to this proclamation. (3)(a) Annex II of Executive Order No. 11888 of November 24, 1975, as 3 CFR, 1971- amended, listing articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP when im- 1975 Comp., ported from any designated beneficiary developing country, is amended by P- deleting item 692.50 and substituting item o92.53, as added by Annex I to this proclamation, in heu thereof. (b) In order to restore GSP treatment for the motorcycles subject to import relief. Annex II of Executive Order No. 11888 of November 24, 1975, as amended, is further amended by inserting in numerical sequence item 692.52, as added by Annex I of this proclamation, effective upon the termi- nation of the import relief proclaimed herein or of any period of extension of such relief. (4) In order to provide staged reductions in the rates of duty for those new TSUS items created by Annex 1(b) to this proclamation. Annex III to Presi- dential Proclamation 4707 of December 11, 1979, as amended, is further 19 USC 2111 amended by Annex II to this proclamation, attached hereto and made a note. part thereof. (5) Whenever the column 1 rate of duty in the TSUS for any item specified in Annex 1(b) to this proclamation is reduced to the same level as, or to a lower level than, the corresponding rate of duty inserted in the column enti- tled "LDDC" by Annex 1(b) of this proclamation, the rate of duty in the column entitled "LDDC" for such item shall be deleted from the TSUS.