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57 STAT.] ICELAND-RECIPROCAL TRADE-AUG. 27, 1943 resolutions of Congress approved March 1, 1937, April 12, 1940 and June 7, 1943 (48 Stat. 944; 50 Stat. 24; 54 Stat. 107; Public Law 66, 78th Congress, 57 Stat. ), I entered into a trade agree- ment, including two schedules annexed thereto, on August 27, 1943 through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with His Excellency the Regent of Iceland, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary; WHEREAS, by my proclamation of September 30, 1943, I did pro- claim the said trade agreement, including the said schedules, to the end that the same and every part thereof should be observed and ful- filled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof on and after the thirtieth day following the ex- change of the said proclamation and the instrument of ratification of the Regent of Iceland as provided for in Article XVII of the agreement; AND WHEREAS, the said proclamation and the said instrument of ratification were duly exchanged in Washington on October 20, 1943; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of September 30, 1943, do hereby proclaim that the said trade agreement, including the said Schedules, will enter into force on November 19, 1943, the thirtieth day following October 20, 1943, the day of the exchange of the said proclamation of the President of the United States of America and the said instrument of ratification of the Regent of Iceland. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE in Washington this twenty-second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-three and of the Independence of the United States of America the one [SEAL] hundred sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E R STETTINIUS Jr Acting Secretary of State 1099 19U.s .c . 1352 (c). Ante, p. 125 . Effective date.