INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES Agreement between the United States of America and Mexico respecting December 23, 1942 reciprocal trade. Signed at Washington December 23, 1942; pro- [E- A. S. 311 claimed by the President of the United States December 28, 1942; proclaimed by the President of the United Mexican States December 31, 1942; supplementary proclamation by the President of the United States December 31, 1942; effective January 30, 1943. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934, entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943; U.S.C., 1940 ed., title 19, sec. 1351(a)), provides as follows: Ante, p. 125. "Sec. 350. (a) For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of Ameri(can agriculture, inldustry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the character- istics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be promoted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time- "(1) To enter into foreign trade agreements with foreign gov- ernments or instrumentalities thereof; and "(2) To proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign 833
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