PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 3049 By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FebrtlRory 5, 1931. A PROCLAMATION W ddb· f . 336 fT'IIIIP II Tarl!!onhats,bon- HEREAS, un er an y VIrtue 0 sectIOn 0 Ite ,art ,nets, and hoods. of the B:ct of CongreSs approved June 17, ~ 930, e~titled "A!l Act ~[:t~~i;' authoriza- To provIde revenlle, to regulate commerce With foreIgn countnes, to tions. 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, hats, bonnets, and hoods, wholly or partly manufactured, described in paragraph 1504 (b) of Title I of said act, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Italy, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign Rrticles when produced in said principal competing country, and has speci.fied in its report the decreases in the rates of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference; AND WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. N 'I H H Pr 'd t fthU'td Decreasingdutyon OW, THEREFORE, , ERBERT OOVER, eSIen0 e ill e hats, bonnets, and States of America do hereby approve and proclaim decreases in the hoods to .equalize dir- '. •• ferences III costs ot rates of duty expressly fixed ill paragraph 1504 (b) (4) of TItle I of saId prodnction. act on hats, bonnets, and hoods, composed wholly or in chief value of Ante, p. 658. straw, chip, paper, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, rattan, real horse- hair, cuba bark, ramie, or manila hemp, whether wholly or partly manufactured, if sewed (whether or not blocked, trimmed, ble'.;ched, dyed, colored, or stained), from $4 per dozen and 60 per centum ad valorem to $3 per dozen and 50 'per centum ad valorem, the rates found to be shown by sa.id investIgation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. I ~ W ITXESS W AEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DO:\,E at the city of Washington this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty. [SEAL1 one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: IIEXHY L STIMSON Secreta.ry of State. HERBERT HOOVER
