PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. coated with zinc or other metal after weaving, from 45 per centum ad valorem to 60 per centum ad valorem. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America. the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 3047 February 5, 1931. WHEREAS, under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, leitTarmstroBot (talk)tI on pigskin of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930, entitled "An Act To sI.' tretaintoble. th'. 'd ul .h" . t f\ u ry au Of",&- proVl e revenue, to reg ate commerce WIt foreIgn countnes, 0 tion. encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American Ante, p. 701. labor, and for other purposes", the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, pigskin leather, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to a like or siInilar article wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing couwntr y , 'h f 'd' " h' ,ld f HEREAS ill t e course 0 Sal mvestIgatIOn a eaTIng was 11e ,0 which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter- ested were given reasonBble opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President. the resuhs of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the comInission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Austria, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of :production of the domestic article and the like or siInilar foreign artIcle when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its repor~ the decrease in the rate of duty expressly- fixed by statute found by the comInission to be shown by said investIgation to be necessary to equalize such difference; AND WHEREAS in the jud~ent of the President such rate of duty is shown by such investigatIOn of the Tariff ComInission to be neces- sary to equalize such difference in costs of production. Now, THERE.FORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, Pres~dent of the 1!nited Pl~Tr7:8SI~~tg~rt.y ~~ States of Amcn;a, do hereby approve and proclaIm a decrease ill the equalize differences in rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1530 (c) of Title I of said cosl18:24, 18 January 2013 (UTC)tlon. act on pi~skin leather, in the rough, in the white, crust, or russet, partly finIshed, or finished, not imported to be used in the manufac- ture of boots, shoes, or footwear, or cut or wholly or partly man- ufactured into uppers, vamps, or any fOTIns or shapes suitable for conversion int,o boots, shoes: or footwear, from 25 per centum ad valorem to 15 per centum ad valorem, the rate found to be shown by ' said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
