70 STAT.]
C23
PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 16, 1956
" 4. If any tariff quota provided for in this Schedule, other than those provided for in items 771, becomes effective after the beginning of a period specified as the quota year, the quantity of the quota product entitled to enter under the quota during the unexpired portion of the quota year shall be the annual quota quantity less Kz thereof for each full calendar month that has expired in such period.":
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim as follows: Parti In accordance with the exchange of notes specified in the third recital of this proclamation, I hereby terminate in part the proclamations of September 30, 1943, and October 22, 1943, referred to in the first recital of this proclamation, insofar as such proclamations apply to tuna provided for in the said item 718 (b) set forth in the second recital of this proclamation, such termination to be effective at the close of business on April 14, 1956, with the result that the rate of duty specified in the said item 718 (b) shall thereafter apply only to the articles provided for in the said item as set forth in the third recital of this proclamation.
Tuna.
48 Stat. 943; 69 Stat. 162. 19 USC 1351.
57 Stat. 1075, 1098.
Part II In accordance with the notification specified in the sixth recital of this proclamation I hereby terminate in part, effective at the close of busine s on April 14, 1956, the said proclamation of July 22, 1955, and the said notification of August 22, 1955, referred to in the fourth recital, insofar as such proclamation and notification apply to tuna provide! for in the said item 718 (b) set forth in the fifth recital which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in ca jndar year 1956 after April 14, 1956 in excess of an aggregate q antiiy equal to 15 per centum of the United States pack of canned tuna during the calendar year 1955, as reported by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and in any calendar year after 1956 in excess of an aggregate quantity equal to 20 per centum of the United States pack of canned tuna fish during the immediately preceding calendar year, as so reported, with the result that such tuna in excess of such 15 or 20 per centum of the United States pack shall be dutiable at 25 per centum ad valorem, the full rate provided for in paragraph 718 (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. (pt. 1) 633). IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 16th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER, Jr.,
Acting Secretary of State.
69 Stat. c44.
19 USC 718.
1001, par.
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