Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 2.djvu/231

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PROCLAMATIONS-MIAY 4, 1948 WHEREAS (10) the rates of duty in the first item 765 and the third item 1513 in the 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948 were inadvertently misstated, and I determine that it is required or appropriate to carry out said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 3rd recital of this proclamation that the rate in said first item 765 be changed to "1.6¢ per lb." and the rate in said third item 1513 be changed to "28% ad val."; and WHEREAS (11) the number of the schedule referred to in item 1537 (b) in said 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948 was inadvertently misstated, and I determine that it is required or appropriate to carry out said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 3rd recital of this proclamation that the number of said schedule be changed to "Schedule XX"; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that, acting under the authority of said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended: Part I To the end that said trade agreement specified in the 1st recital of this proclamation may be carried out, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that: (a) Effective on and after May 22, 1948, the concessions provided for in part I of said schedule XX which are identified in the 6th recital of this proclamation shall no longer be identified in the 8th recital of said proclamation of December 16, 1947, and the rates of duty representing such concessions identified in said 6th recital of this proclamation shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth in said schedule XX, and parts I, II, and III, of said general agreement, and in subdivision (a), other than exception (I) thereof, of said proclamation of December 16, 1947, including in each case any amendments and rectifications which have been proclaimed by the President, to articles of the kinds provided for in the descriptions of products in the column at the left of said rates; (b) The rates of duty specified in the 7th recital of this proclama- tion shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth therein, to the articles described in the column at the left of such rates as though said rates, descriptions, and related paragraph numbers had appeared in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement on October 30, 1947; and (c) Effective on and after May 22, 1948, the list set forth in the 7th recital of said proclamation of January 30, 1948, as amended, shall be further amended in the manner indicated in the 8th recital of this proclamation; and Part II To the end that said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 3rd recital of this proclamation may be carried out, I do further proclaim that: (a) Effective on and after May 22, 1948, the lists set forth in the 8th and 9th recitals of said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, shall be further amended in the manner indicated in the 9th recital of this proclamation; and (b) The list set forth in the 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, shall be further rectified in the manner indicated in the 10th and 11th recitals of this proclama- tion effective as though said rectifications had appeared in said 9th recital on January 1, 1948. Ante, pp . 1470,1471. Ante, p. 1505 . Ante, p. 1473 . Ante, p. 1505 . Proclamation of modifications of exist- ing duties, etc. 48 Stat. 943. 19U. .C.1351. Ante, p. 1505. Effective date. 61 Stat. , Pt. 5, p. A1157 . Ante, p. 1506. 61 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1105 . 61 Stat., Pt. 5, pp. A1157 , A12 , A18, A66. 61 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1110. Ante, p. 150i. 61 Stat. , Pt. 5, P. A1157 . Ante, p. 1481. Ante, p. 1508 . Ante, p. 1505. Ante, pp. 1467 ,1468 Ante, p . 1508. Ante, p. 14G8. 62 STAT.] 1509