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[73 Stat. C4]
PROCLAMATIONS—MMMM. DD, 1959
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PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 22, 1958

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to in the second recital of this proclamation (3 UST (Part 1) 1167), read, respectively, as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, Paragraph

Description of Products

Rate of duty

391 Lead-bearing ores, flue dust, and mattes of all kinds. _ %i per lb. on lead content. 392 Lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lYie^ per lb. on lead dross, reclaimed lead, scrap lead, antimonial lead content, lead, antimonial scrap lead, type metal. Babbitt metal, solder, all alloys or combinations of lead not specially provided for. 393 Zinc-bearing ores of all kinds, except pyrites contain- O.Q^ per lb. on ing not over 3 % of zinc. zinc content. 394 Zinc in blocks, pigs, or slabs, and zinc dust 0.7ff per lb.

5. WHEREAS, in accordance with Articles II and X I of the said ^61 Stat. (pt. 5) A14, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the United States customs treatment reflecting the concessions granted in the said trade agreements with respect to the articles described in the items reproduced in the third and fourth recitals of this proclamation has been the application of the respective rates of duty specified in such items, without quantitative limitation; 6. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its Investigation No. 65 under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 65 Stat. 74. 1364), as a result of which the Commission has found that the articles described in the said items (except Babbitt metal, solder, and zinc dust) are, as a result in part of the customs treatment specified in the fifth recital of this proclamation, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industries producing like or directly competitive products; 7. WHEREAS I find that the modifications of the concessions granted in the said agreements with respect to such articles to permit the application to such articles of the customs treatment hereinafter proclaimed is necessary to remedy the serious injury to the domestic industries producing like or directly competitive products; 19 USC 1351. 8. WHEREAS the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications of existing duties and such additional import restrictions as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350; and 9. WHEREAS, upon modification of the said concessions as hereinafter proclaimed, it will be appropriate, to carry out the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to apply to the said articles the customs treatment hereinafter proclaimed: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in 19 USC 1364.

m e by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade A g r e e m e n t s E x t e n s i o n Act of 1951, a s 61 Stat. (Pt. 6) A58. amended, and in a c c o r d a n c e w i t h the provisions of Article X IX of the

said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, do proclaim as follows: (a) Item 391, the first item 392, item 393, and item 394, referred to in the fourth recital of this proclamation, shall each be modified, effective October 1, 1958, so as to read, respectively, as follows: