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PROCLAMATION 3564-DEC. 4, 1963
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D O N E at the City of Washington this second day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
By the President: DEAN KUSK,
Secretary of State. Proclamation 3564 PROCLAMATION INCREASING RATES OF DUTY ON SPECIFIED ARTICLES By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
December 4. 1963
WHEREAS the European Economic Community maintains unreasonable import restrictions upon imports of poultry from the United States; WHEREAS such unreasonable import restrictions directly and substantially burden United States commerce; WHEREAS products of the European Economic Community receive benefits of trade agreement concessions made by the United States; WHEREAS it is consistent with the purposes expressed in Section 102 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1801) for the 76 Stat. 872. United States to suspend the application of the benefits of certain of those trade agreement concessions; WHEREAS, having due regard for the international obligations of the United States, particularly paragraph 3 of Article X X VIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade* requiring any sus- s UST 1757. pension of trade agreement concessions to be made on a most-favorednation basis, I am taking steps to suspend, on a most-favored-nation basis, certain trade agreement concessions in the United States schedules to that Agreement; and WHEREAS rates of duty suspended by this proclamation will not be required or appropriate to carry out any trade agreement on and after January 7, 1964: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including Section 252(c) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1882(c)) and Section 350(a)(6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 76 Stat. 379. amended (19 U.S.C. 1351(a)(6)), and in order to suspend the ap- 69 stat, 162; plication of the benefits of certain trade agreement concessions, do 72 stat, 673. hereby proclaim (until such time as the President of the United States of America otherwise proclaims)— (1) the termination of that part of any prior proclamation which proclaims rates of duty inconsistent with those provided for in the amendment made by paragraph (2) of this proclamation; and (2) the amendment of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (28 F.R. 8599, as corrected, 28 F.R. 9131) by inserting under the heading 77A stat, 3. "Subpart B " of Part 2 of the Appendix thereto the following: •That agreement of October 30, 1947, has been proclaimed by Proclamation 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), which proclamation has been supplemented by subsequent proclamations.
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