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66 STAT.]

PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 5, 1952

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that the products described in the said item 1520 are, as a result in part of the duty reflecting the concession granted thereon in the said General Agreement, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products, and as to threaten continuance of such serious injury; 5. WHEREAS the Tariff Commission has recommended that the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the products described in the said item 1520 be modified to permit the application to such products of a rate of duty of 47 H cents per pound, but not less than 15 percent nor more than 35 percent ad valorem, which rate the Commission found and reported to be necessary to prevent the continuance of serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products; 6. WHEREAS section 350(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as i^ use issi (a). amended (48 Stat. 943), authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications of existing duties as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350(a); and 7. WHEREAS, upon the modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the products described in the said item 1520, in accordance with the recommendation of the Tariff Commission indicated in the 5th recital of this proclamation, it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement, including Article X IX thereof, to apply to the said products the rate of duty specified in the said 5th recital; NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of SodSfon'oT the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in existing duties. me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by sec- J| |tat.943.^ tion 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in 65 Stat. 74.^' accordance with the provisions of Article X IX of the said General 19 USC 1364. Agreement, do proclaim— (a) That the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the products described in the said item 1520, shall be modified, effective after the close of business February 8, 1952, by changing the rate of duty specified in such item 1520 from " 1 5 % ad val." to "Alyii per lb., but not less than 15% nor more than 3 5 % ad val."; and (b) That the rate of duty which shall be applied to the products described in the said item 1520 entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the close of business February 8, 1952, and until the President otherwise proclaims, shall be 47K cents per pound, but not less than 15 percent nor more than 35 percent ad valorem. Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947, as amended, is p. 51 Stat., P t. 2, 1103. modified accordingly. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this Fifth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: D E A N ACHESON

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