Rate. to 75 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.
Done at the City of Washington this 16" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth.
By the President:
- Henry L Stimson
- Secretary of State.
DECREASING RATES OF DUTY ON WOOL-FELT HATS AND BODIES THEREFOR
March 16, 1931.
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
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Whereas under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930, entitled "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American 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, bodies, hoods, forms, and shapes, for hats, bonnets, caps, berets, and similar articles, manufactured wholly or in part of wool felt, and hats, bonnets, caps, berets, and similar articles, made wholly or in part therefrom, finished or unfinished, 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 interested 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 differences in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified 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 differences; 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 differences in costs of production;
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Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America do hereby approve and proclaim the following
