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FEDERAL

REGISTER

VOLUME I

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1934

NUMBER 147

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Washington, Wednesday, O ctober 7, 1936
PRESIDENT OF THE U NITED STATES.
T he W h it e H ouse,
Washington, October 3, 1936.
The Honorable H e n r y M orgenthau , J r ., Secretary of the Treasury.
M y D ear M r . S ecretary : The A ct to amend the T a riff Act of 1930, approved June 12, 1934, provides in part that the duties proclaimed under its authority shall be applied to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of a ll foreign countries, whether imported directly or indirectly. The A ct further provides that the President may suspend the appli cation o f the proclaimed duties to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture o f any country because o f its discriminatory treatment of American commerce or because of other acts or policies which in his opinion tend to defeat the purposes set forth in the Act. Pursuant to these provi sions o f the Act, I hereby direct that the duties proclaimed on this date in connection with the trade agreement signed on May 18, 1936, with Finland, and all other duties hereto fore proclaimed in connection w ith trade agreements signed under the authority o f the A ct w ith the exception of the duties proclaimed in connection with the trade agreement signed on August 24, 1934, w ith Cuba shall be applied from the effective date of such duties, or, as the case may be, shall continue to be applied on and from the date o f this letter, only to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the countries hereinafter designated and to such articles, in the case o f each country, respectively, fo r the period indicated in the numbered section below in which such country is designated.
1. In respect o f the products of each country designated in this section, the proclaimed duties shall be applied from the effective date of such duties or, as the case may be, shall con tinue to be applied on and from the date o f this letter until thirty days from the date on which you are notified by me that the United States has ceased, or on a day certain w ill cease, to be bound by provisions o f a treaty or agreement pro viding fo r m ost-favored-nation treatm ent in respect o f cus toms duties.
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Portugal and its colonies and possessions
2. In respect o f the products o f each country designated in this section, the proclaimed duties shall be applied so long as such duties remain in effect and this direction is not modified in respect o f such country.
Afghanistan Albania Andorra Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Arabian Shaikdoms not in
cluded under any other des ignation in this list
Argentina Australian mandated terri tories Austria Belgium and its colony and mandated territories Bhutan
Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Cuba subject to the provi sions o f the trade agreement concluded w ith Cuba on August 24, 1934
Czechoslovakia > Danzig, Free C ity of Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt .
El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Abyssinia Finland France including A lgeria and its colonies, depend encies, protectorates, and mandated territories Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and British colo nies, dependencies, protec torates, and mandated ter ritories Greece Greenland Guatemala H aiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Iran Persia Iraq Irish Free State Italian colonies and posses sions
Japanese Empire and man dated t e r r i t o r i e s and Kwantung Leased Territory Latvia Liberia Lithuania Luxemburg Mexico Monaco Morocco Nepal Netherlands and its colonies Newfoundland New Hebrides New Zealand and mandated territories Nicaragua Norway Oman M uscat Panama Paraguay Peru Poland Rumania San M arino Saudi Arabia Siam Spain and its colonies and possessions Sweden Switzerland and Liechtenstein Turkey Union of South A frica and mandated territory Union o f Soviet Socialist R e publics Uruguay Vatican, C ity o f the Venezuela Yem en Yugoslavia
Because I find as a fact that their treatm ent o f American commerce is discrim inatory, I direct that the proclaimed duties shall not be applied to products o f the follow ing countries:
Australia, Commonwealth of Germany.
M y letter addressed to you on September 1, 19361 w ith reference to duties proclaimed in connection with trade U F. R. 1513.

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