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REGISTE
VOLUME 6

1934

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NUMBER 166

Washington, Tuesday, August 26, 1941
The President I n c r e a s in g R ate of D u t y o n C rab M eat BY THE RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PR O C LA M A TIO N
WHEREAS pursuant to section 336 of Title i n , Part n , of the T a riff Act of 1930 46 Stat. 690, 701, the United States T ariff Commission has investi gated the differences in costs of produc tion of, and all other facts and condi tions enumerated in said section with respect to, crab meat, fresh or frozen whether or not packed in ic e , or pre pared or preserved in any manner, in
cluding crab paste and crab sauce, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country; and WHEREAS in the course of the in
vestigation hearings were held, o f which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; and WHEREAS the Commission has re ported to the President the results of the investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; and WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by the investigation that the principal competing country is Japan, and that the duty expressly fixed by statute does not equalize the difference in the costs of production of crab meat, prepared or preserved in any manner, in cluding crab paste and crab sauce, packed in air-tight containers, wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in the principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the Commission to be shown by the investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rate of duty is shown by
the investigation o f the Tariff Commis sion to be necessary to equalize such d if ference in costs of production:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, F R A N K L IN
D. ROOSEVELT, President o f the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 336 c , Title H I, Part I I of the said act, do hereby approve and proclaim an increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 721 a of Title I of the said act on crab meat, prepared or preserved in any manner, including crab paste and crab sauce, packed in air-tight containers, from 15 per centum ad va lorem to 22% per centum ad valorem, the rate found to be shown by the investi gation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production.
IN W ITN E S S W HEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 22nd day of August in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seal ! forty-one, and o f the Independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.
F ra nk lin D R oosevelt
By the President:
C ordell H u l l ,
Secretary of State.
tNo. 25041
F. R. Doc. 41-0343; Filed, August 23, 1941;
10:11 a. m.

EXECUTIVE ORDER
W H EREAS on the 27th day of May, 1941,1a Presidential proclamation was is sued, declaring an unlimited national emergency and calling upon all loyal citizens in production for defense to give precedence to the needs o f the Nation to the end that a system of government which makes private enterprise possible may survive; and calling upon our loyal workmen and employers to merge their lesser differences in the larger effort to insure the survival of the only kind of 16 F U . 2617.

CONTENTS
TH E PR ESID EN T
Proclamation:
Rate of duty increased on crab m eat-____i.__:______________
Executive orders:
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Secretary of Navy authorized to take posses sion of plant_______________
Masters, officers, crew members, and crew accommodations on certain vessels, waiver of compliance with the act of June 6, 1941_______________
San Juan, Puerto Rico, trans fer to Treasury Depart ment of portion of m ilitary reservation at La Pun tina ____ ___________________

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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 6 A gricultural C redit :

Farm Security Administration:
Defense housing program, amendments_____________

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T itle 7 A griculture :

Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration:
Marketing quotas for peanuts, 1941, amendments_______
Agricultural Marketing Service:
Grain standards under U. S.
Grain Standards A ct----T itle 10 A r m y : W ar D epartm ent :
Organized Reserves:
Separation from service, etc.
T itle 14 C iv il A v ia t io n :
Civil Aeronautics Board:
Scheduled airline rules in
terstate , am endm ent___
T itle 16 C ommercial P ractices :
Federal Trade Commission:
Cease and desist orders:
Disabled American Veter ans of the W orld W ar Rehabilitation Depart ment, et al____________
Peoples Hardware Stores___
T itle 19 C ustoms D u t ie s :
Bureau of Customs:
W ool and h a i r imports, amendments___________
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