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FEDERAL
VOLUME 12

REGISTER

1934

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NUMBER 253

Washington, Tuesday, December 30,1947

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2761A
C arrying O ut G eneral A greement on T ariffs and T rade C oncluded a t G eneva, O ctober 30, 1947 1
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS 1 section 350 a and b of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the act of June 12, 1934 en titled AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930, by the Joint Resolution ap proved June 7, 1943, and by section 2
of the Act of July 5, 1945, provides as follows :
Sec. 350. a For the purpose of expand ing foreign markets for the products of the United States as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living,in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purThere are attached to the proclamation two volumes containing the complete texts of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Final Act adopted at the con clusion of the Second Session of the Prepara tory Committee of the United Nations Con ference on Trade and Employment, in both the French and English languages, certified by the Acting Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Legal Department of the United Nations. These texts have been published by the United Nations and are available from the International Documents Service, Co lumbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, New York. The English text of schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has been published by the Treasury Department and is available at the Government Printing Office: The English text of Parts I, n, and in, annexes D, H, and I and Part I of, and the general notes in, schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Protocol of Provisional Application, and the Final Act are being in cluded in TD 51802 Customs. The com plete texts of the General Agreement on Tar iffs and Trade, the Protocol of Provisional Application, and the Final Act, in the lan guage or languages in which authentic with an English translation of those parts authen tic in a foreign language only, will be pub lished by the Department of State as Treaties and Other International Acts Series No. 1700
and in the Statutes at Large.

chasing power of the American public, and CONTENTS
in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches Of THE PRESIDENT
American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce by regulating the admission of Proclamation foreign goods into the United States in General Agreement on Tariffs and accordance with the characteristics and needs Trade concluded at Geneva, Oc of various branches of American production tober 30, 1947 ; carrying out___
so that foreign markets will be made avail able to those branches of American produc Trade agreement proclamations, tion which require and are capable of de term ination___ ____________
veloping such outlets by affording corre Executive Order sponding market opportunities for foreign Foreign Aid Act of 1947, provision products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact th at any existing for administration__________
duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and th at the pur Agriculture Department pose above declared will be promoted by the Proposed rule making;
means hereinafter specified, is authorized St. Louis National Stockyards from time to time Co. ; petition for modification.
1 To enter into foreign trade agree ments with foreign governments or instru Alien Property, Office of mentalities thereof; and Notices:
2 To proclaim such modifications of ex Vesting orders:
isting duties and other Import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or Hosakawa, Manabu-----------such continuance, and for such minimum Kruger, Lotte________
periods, of existing customs or excise treat IJischwitz, August_________
ment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate Housing and Home Finance to carry out any foreign trade agreement Agency that the President has entered into here Rules and regulations:
under. No proclamation shall be made in Public war housing, perma creasing or decreasing by more than 50 per nent disposition of Federally centum any rate of duty, however estab lished, existing on January 1, 1945 even ownedL________________
though temporarily suspended by Act of Congress, or transferring any article be Internal Revenue Bureau tween the dutiable and free lists. The pro Proposed rule making:
claimed duties and other import restrictions Taxes under Trading With the shall apply to articles the growth, produce, Enemy Act_______________
or manufacture of all foreign countries, Rules and regulations:
whether imported directly, or indirectly;
Estate tax; deduction of a t Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, prod torneys fees incurred in con uce, or manufacture of any country because testing an asserted deficiency of its discriminatory treatment of American or in prosecuting a claim for commerce or because of other acts includ refund__________________
ing the operations of international cartels or policies which in his opinion tend to de Interstate Commerce Commis feat the purposes set forth in this section;
sion and the proclaimed duties and other import Notices:
restrictions shall be in effect from and after such time as is specified in the proclamation.
Railroad coal supply, furnishing The President may at any time terminate any c a rs:.
such proclamation in whole or in part.
Monongahela Railway Co___
b Nothing in this section shall be con Montour Railroad Co. 2 docu struedto prevent the application, with re m ents_________________
spect to rates of duty established under this New York Central Railroad section pursuant to agreements with coun Co____________________
tries other than Cuba, of the provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity con Rules and regulations:
cluded between the United States and the Car service ; removal and return Continued on next page of empty refrigerator cars
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