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55. Address by President Ford

ship and cooperation. Under this legislation, all members of OPEC were excluded from our generalized system of trade preferences. This, unfortunately, punished two South American friends, Ecuador and Venezuela, as well as other OPEC nations, such as Nigeria and Indonesia, none of which participated in last year’s oil embargo. This exclusion has seriously complicated our new dialog with our friends in this hemisphere. I therefore endorse the amendments which have been introduced in the Congress to provide executive authority to waive those restrictions on the trade act that are incompatible wit…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1975-04-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1973–1976
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v38p1/d55
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v38p1/d55`

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55. Address by President Ford. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1975. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v38p1/d55.