2490 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. eq=TarmstroBot (talk)!!:~ NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of costs of production. the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim a Vol4&, p. «138. decrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 774 of Title I of said act on peppers in their natural state, from 3 cents per pound to 2~ cents per pOlmd, the rate found to be shown by said investiga tion to be necess~~qualize such difference in costs of production. December 2,1931. 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 24 day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: H L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 19781 DECREASING RATE OF DUTY ON TURN SHOES INCREASING RATE OlP DuTY ON MCKAy-SEWED SiiOES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tariff on shoos. WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, ~t:::~;. !.\uthorizs- of ~he act of Congress appr~ved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 7ql) tion. entItled "AN ACT To prOVIde revenue, to regulate commerce With Vol. 46, p. 7ill. 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 produc- tion of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect. to, boots and shoes, made wholly or in chief value of leather, not specially provided for, 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 countries; . WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearin~ 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 investiga- tion that the principal competing country for tum or turned boots and shoes, made wholly or in chief value of leather, not specially provided for, is Switzerland, and that the principal competing country for boots and shoes, made wholly or in chief value of leather, not specially pro- vided for1 sewed or stitched by the process or method known as McKay, 18 Czechoslovakia, 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 pro- duced in said principal competing countries, and has specified in its report the decrease and the increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to 'equalize such differences; and
