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[70 Stat. 47]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 47]

70 STAT.]

PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 29, 1956

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commence on August 1, and (2) the quantity of such cotton which may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during the period May 28, 1956, to July 31, 1956, inclusive, together with the quantity of cotton having a staple length of 1)^ inches or more but less than Vjie inches which was entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during the period February 1, 1956, to May 27, 1956, inclusive, shall not exceed 22,828,210 pounds. IN W I T N E S S 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 29th day of June 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: H E R B E R T HOOVER, Jr.,

Acting Secretary of State.

MODIFYING PROCLAMATION N O. 3140 CARRYING OUT THE SIXTH PROTOCOL OF SUPPLEMENTARY CONCESSIONS TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

June 29, 1956 [No. 3146]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (21 F. R. 4237), the President has proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States, or such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were found to be required or appropriate to carry out the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including the schedule of United States concessions (House Doc. 421, 84th Cong., 2d Sess.); WHEREAS the description of products in item 806 (a) in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the said Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions reads as follows:

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"Cherry juice, and other fruit juices and fruit sirups, not specially provided for, containing less than ji of one per centum of alcohol (not including prune juice, prune sirup, or prune wine, and except pineapple juice or sirup and naranjilla (solanum quitoense lam) juice or sirup)";

WHEREAS the said item 806 (a) was not intended to cover citrus fruit juices, but such juices other than naranjilla juice inadvertently were not excepted from the description of products set forth in the said item 806 (a); WHEREAS that portion of the description of products in item 1510 [second] in Part I of the said Schedule X X which follows the last semicolon therein, was erroneously worded to provide for buttons "wholly or in chief value of textile material" instead of for buttons "wholly or in part of textile material": NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President Modification of of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the P/^^^i^mation NO. authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat. (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269, 63 Stat. (pt. 1) 698, ch. 585, 69 Stat. 165, ch. 169), do proclaim, effective igusciasi. June 30, 1956: