Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 3.djvu/766

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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. WHEREAS Article I of the said trade agreement of December 13, 56 stat. I32L 1940 provides as follows: "During the effectiveness of this Agreement, item 1519 (c) of Schedule II of the trade agreement entered into between the 3Stat.3a United States of America and Canada on November 17, 1938, shall be suspended . . ."; WHEREAS Article VI, paragraph 4, of the said trade agreement 5 stat. I32L of December 13, 1940 provides that such agreement may be termi- nated at any time by agreement between the Governments of the two countries; WHEREAS Article VI, paragraph 5, of the said trade agreement of December 13, 1940 provides as follows: "5. Should the present Agreement be terminated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of this Article, the provisions of item 1519 (c) of Schedule II of the trade agreement entered into between the United States of America and Canada on November 53 tat. 2 17, 1938, which have been suspended by this Agreement, shall thereupon automatically reenter into force."; WHEREAS the Government of the United States of America and Ant, p. 30a,306 the Government of Canada, by notes exchanged on March 18, 1947, have agreed that the said trade agreement of December 13, 1940 shall be terminated in whole on May 1, 1947; Termination ofdes. NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President ignated procla- mationsetc. of the United States of America, acting pursuant to the authority 4 336Stat. 3 ) conferred by Section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the effectiveness of said proclamations of 5stat. 131,13a December 18, 1940 and August 21, 1941 shall be terminated in whole on May 1, 1947, and that the provisions of item 1519 (c) of Schedule II of the trade agreement entered into between the United States of s Stat.. 2. America and Canada on November 17, 1938 shall reenter into force on May 1, 1947. 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 eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL] forty-seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of Sate