71 STAT.]
PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 28, 1956
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on Tariffs and Trade, which items were given effect by the said proclamation of Pecember 16, 1947, read as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph
1108
1109 (a)
Description of Products
Rate of duty
Woven fabrics, weighing not more than four ounces per square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool, regardless of value: If the warp is wholly of cotton or other vegetable fiber 30^ per lb. and 25% ad val. Other 37>^jJ per lb. and 25% ad val. NOTE: The United States reserves the right to increase the ad valorem part of the rate applicable to any of the fabrics provided for in item 1108 or 1109 (a) of this Part to 45 per centum ad valorem on any of such fabrics which are entered in any calendar year in excess of an aggregate quantity by weight of 5 per centum of the average annual production of similar fabrics in the United States during the 3 immediately preceding calendar years. Woven fabrics, weighing more than four ounces per square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool, regardless of value 37J^f5 per lb. and 25% ad val.;
3. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on April 21, 1951, the louscmi. President entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the Torquay PVotocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (3 UST (pt. 1) 615, (pt. 2) 1841), and, by Prockmation No. 2929 of June 2, 1951 (65 Stat. cl2), the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after June 6, 1951; 4. WHEUEAS item 1109 (a), and the appropriate headings, in susTpt.i.p.im Part I of Schedule XX annexed to the said Torquay Protocol, which item was given effect by the said proclamation of June 2, 1951, reads as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph
1109 (a)
Description of Products
Rate of duty
Woven green billiard cloths in the piece, weighing over 11 but not over 15 ounces per square yard, wholly of wool, regardless of value 37)^fi per lb. and 20% ad val. NOTE: This item shall be subject to the note in item 1108 in Part I of Schedule XX (original).;
5. WHEREAS on September 26, 1956, the Government of the United States notified the Executive Secretary to the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that
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