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[71 Stat. 49]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1957
[71 Stat. 49]

71 STAT.]

PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 29, 1957

C49

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 28th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER

DULLES,

Secretary of State.

CARRYING O U T SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENTS GRANTING CONCESSIONS TO COMPENSATE FOR ESCAPE CLAUSE ACTION ON CERTAIN TOWELING BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

June 29, 1957 [No. 3191]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as then amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat, (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269), the President on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement"), including a Schedule of United States Concessions (hereinafter referred to as "Schedule X X (Geneva—1947)"), and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement, together with a Final Act (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2051); 2. WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by the other proclamations listed in the third recital of Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 24), by the said proclamation of June 13, 1956, by Proclamation No. 3143 of June 25, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 33), by Proclamation No. 3146, of June 29, 1956 (3 C F R, 1956 SUPP., p. 35), by Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956 (3 C F R, 1956 SUPP., p. 44), by Proclamation No. 3184 of May 16, 1957 (22 F. R. 3531), and by Proclamation No. 3190 of June 28, 1957 (22 F. R. 4705); 3. WHEREAS, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in him by the said section 350, as now amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat. (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269, 63 Stat. (pt. 1) 698, ch. 585, 69 Stat. 162, ch. 169), and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 74, ch. 141), and in accordance with Article X IX of the General Agreement, the President, by the said proclamation of June 25, 1956, proclaimed the withdrawal of the duty concession granted by.the United States with respect to certain products (toweling of flax, hemp, or ramie) described in item 1010 in Part I of Schedule X X (Geneva—1947), effective after the close of business July 25, 1956;

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