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[77 STAT. 967]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1963
[77 STAT. 967]

77 STAT. ]

PROCLAMATION 3512-DEC. 28, 1962

967

can, regardless of his race, religion, color, or national origin, enjoys all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. I N 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 [SEAL] this twenty-eighth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyseventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3512 PROCLAMATION OF A TRADE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE CONTAINING CONCESSIONS COMPENSATORY FOR CERTAIN ESCAPE CLAUSE ACTION By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

December 28, 1962

PABT I—PURPOSE PABT II—IDENTIFICATION AND JUSTIFICATION

(1) Identification of Agreement (2) Requisite Findings and Determinations and Applicable Procedures regarding Agreement (a) Prior Findings (b) Compliance with Procedural Requirements (c) Determination that Certain Rate Decreases will Simplify Computation (d) Determination Respecting Ad Valorem Equivalents of Certain Specific ^ Duties (3) Determination that Proclamation Required or Appropriate to Carry Out Trade Agreement PART III—PEOOLAIMING PART

(1) Carrying Out Trade Agreement (2) Conditions to Which Proclamation is Subject PART I—PUBPOSE

The purpose of this proclamation is to carry out a trade agreement supplementary to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,^ of October 30, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A l l; which agreement is hereinafter referred to as " G A T T "), consisting of an agreement signed with the United Kingdom providing concessions compensatory for certain escape clause action taken by the United States. PART II—IDENTIFICATION AND JUSTIFICATION

(1) Identification of Agreement. After making the requisite findings and determinations and complying with the applicable procedures, as indicated in paragraph (2) of this part, and during the period specified in section 257(c) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-794,76 Stat. 882), the President through his duly empowered 19 USC 1352 representative has entered into a trade agreement supplementary to "°*^* G A T T consisting of the agreement of December 10, 1962, between the United States and the United Kingdom Supplementary to G A T T. 13UST3910. This supplementary agreement includes a schedule of United States concessions. Such schedule provides that the rates set forth in column A therein shall become initially effective on the day provided therefor ^ This agreement was proclaimed by Proclamation 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), which proclamation has been supplemented by subsequent proclamations.