Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 2.djvu/458

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PERU-RECIPROCAL TRADE-MAY 7 , 1942 WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the said Agreement, the Schedules thereunto annexed and the said notes, are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; WHEREAS it, is provided in Article XVI of the said Agreement that it shall enter into full force on the thirtieth day following proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and the President of the Republic of Peru, or should the proclamations be issued on different days, on the thirtieth day following the date of the later in time of such proclamations; AND WHEREAS the said Agreement was proclaimed by the President of the Republic of Peru on June 29, 1942; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement, including the said Schedules and notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled by the United States of America and all persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof on and after July 29, 1942, the thirtieth day following June 29, 1942, the date of this my proc- lamation of the said Agreement. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty- [SEAL] two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF PERUVIAN NOTES The PeruvianMinisterof Financeand Commerce to the Secretary of State EMBASSY OF PERU WASHINGTON, D . O. MAY 7, 1942 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to the conversations which have taken place in the course of the negotiation of the trade agreement signed this day between the Republic of Peru and the United States of America, regarding trade relations between Peru and contiguous countries. During the course of these conversations the Peruvian representa- tives have pointed out that, although the Government of the Republic Ante, p. 122. Proclamation. 48 Stat. 943. 19U.S. . § 1351(a). 1539 56 STAT.]