PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 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 oppc.rtunity 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 Germ~l' and that the Quties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the . erence 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 increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be nec.essa .ry to equalize such difference; and . 2459 WHEREAS in the Judgment of the President such rate of duty is shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of productionj Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, PreBldent of the United eq~-:m~:: :: States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim an increase in the ~~LolJ~~n. rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 364 of Title I of said act on .. bicycle, velocipede, and similar bells, finished or unfinisned, and parts thereof, from 50 per centum ad oolorem to 70 per centum ad txdOrem, 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 UnitOO States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 24" day of June, in therear of our Lord nin ;teen hundred and thirty-one, and 0 the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 1954] INCREASING RATE OF DUTY ON HEMP CORDAGE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION JUDe 24, 1931. W Hi:REAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II 'rariff on he:np cord- of the act of Congress approved June 1!~ 1930 (46 Stat. 701), entitl;! agf,reamble. "An act to provide revenue, to regwate COI:UIlerce with foreign tlt~~tutory authorlza. countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect \·01 . 46, p. 701 . American labor, and for other purposes," the United. States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts ana conditions enumerated. in said section with respect to, cordage, including cables, tarred or untarred, composed of three or more strands, each strand composed of two or more yarns, wholly or in chief value of hemp, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of the principle competing country; 30~1·-33-PT 2-53
