PROCLAMATIONS, 1983. 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, shoes, or other footwear (including athletic or sporting boots and shoes), the uppers of which are composed wholly or in chief value of wool, cotton, ramie, animal hair, fiber, rayon or other synthetic textile, silk, or substitutes for any of the forego~, with soles composed wholly or in chief value of india. rubber or substi- tutes for rubber, and boots and shoes or other footwear, wholly or in chief value of india rubber, 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 prod- uct of the principal competing countnes; WHEREAS in the course of said investi~ation 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; 2553 WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing countries for boots, shoes, or other footwear (including athletic or sporting boots and shoes), the uppers of which are composed wholly or in chief value of wool, cotton, ramie, animal hair, fiber, rayon or other synthetic textile, silk, or substitutes for any of the foregoingl with soles composed wholly or in chief value of india rubber or substitutes for rubber, provided for in paragraph Vol. 4e, p. Mfl . 1530 (e) of Title I of said tariff act, are Czechoslovakia an4 Japan, and that the principal competing country for boots, shoes, or other Vol. 48, p. 8118 . footwear, wholly or in chief value of india rubber, provided for in paragraph 1537~ (b) of Title I of said act, is 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 produced in said principal competing countries; and that said differences can not be equalized by proceeding under the provisions of subdivision (a) of said section and act; WHEREAS the commission has specified in its report the ad valorem rates of duty based upon the American selling price, as defined in sec- tion 402 (g) of said act, of the domestic articles found by the commis- Vol. 48, p. 710, sion to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such dllferences; and WHEREAS in the iud~ent of the President such ad valorem rates of duty based upon said American selling price are shown by such inves~ation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production; Now, '£HEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United eq~':~ ~ States of America, do hereby approve said report and proclaim that costsofproductloD. the rate of duty shown by said investigation to be necessary to equal- Vol. 48, p. 701. ize such differences, within the limit provided in said section 336, on boots, shoes, or other footwear (including athletic or sporting boots and shoes), the uppers of which are composed wholly or in chief value of wool, cotton, ramie, animal hair, fiber, rayon or other syn- thetic textile, silk, or substitutes for any of the foregoing, with soles composed wholly or in chief value of india rubber or substitutes for rubber, is 35 per centum ad valorem based upon the American sell- ing price as defined in section 402 (g) of said act of boots, shoes, or other footwear (including athletic or sporting _boots, and shoes), the uppers of which are composed wholly or in chief value of wool, cot- ton, ramie, animal hair, fiber, rayon or other synthetic textile, silk, or substitutes for any of the foregoing, with soles composed wholly or in chief value of india rubber or substitutes for rubber, manufac-
