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FEDERAL
VOLUME 13

REGISTER
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NUMBER 2

Washington, Saturday, January 3, 1948

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2764
C a r r y in g O u t E x c l u s iv e T rade A gree m e n t W i t h C u b a o f O ctober 30,1947
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
entitled AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930, by the Joint Resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by section 2
of the Act of July 5, 1945, provides as follows :
S ec . 350. a For the purpose of expanding
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 domestio unemployment and the present economic de pression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, in dustry, mining, and commerce by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the charac teristics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by afford ing corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restric tions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be pro moted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time 1 To enter into foreign trade agreements with foreign governments or instrumentali ties thereof; and 2 To proclaim such modifications of ex isting duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treat ment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into hereunder.
No proclamation shall be made increasing or decreasing by more than 50 per centum any rate of duty, however established, existing on January 1, 1945 even though tem porarily suspended by act of Congress, or transferring any article between the duti able and free lists. The proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall apply to
articles the growth, produce, or manufac ture of all foreign countries, whether im ported directly, or indirectly: Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, produce, or manufac ture of any country because of its discrimina tory treatment of American commerce or be cause ofother acts including the opera tions of international cartels or policies which in liis opinion tend to defeat the pur poses set forth in this section; and the pro claimed duties and other import restrictions shall be in effect from and after such time as is specified in the proclamation. The President may at any time terminate any such proclamation in whole or in part.
b Nothing in this section shall be con strued to prevent the application, with re spect to rates of duty established under this section pursuant to agreements with coun tries other than Cuba, of the provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity con cluded between the United States and the Republic of Cuba on December 11, 1902, or to preclude giving effect to an exclusive agree ment with Cuba concluded under this sec tion, modifying the existing preferential customs treatment of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cuba: Provided, That the duties on such an article shall in no case be increased or decreased by morethan 50 per centum of the duties, however estab lished existing on January 1, 1945 even though temporarily suspended by act of Con gress. 48 Stat. 843 and 944, ch. 474, 57
Stat. 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. 410 and 411, ch.
269; 19 U. S. C. 1940 1351 a , 19 U. S. C.
1940 Supp. V, 1351 a 2 and b . ;

WHEREAS 2 the period within which the/President is authorized to en ter into trade agreements under the said section 350 was extended by section 1 of the Act of July 5, 1945 until the expira tion of three years from June 12, 1945
48 Stat. 944, ch. 474, 59 Stat. 410, ch.
269; 19 U. S. C. 1940 Supp. V, 1352
c .; .
WHEREAS 3 I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of Amer ica, have found as a fact that certain ex isting duties and other import restric tions of the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in said section 350 a of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Cuba;
WHERAS 4 reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given and the views preContinued on p. 23

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Executive Orders
Pase
Alabama, Tennessee, and North ern Railroad Co. and other car riers, and certain of their em ployees; creation of emergency board to investigate disputes___
Designation of members of Na tional Capital Housing Author ity; amendment of E. O. 6868__
Military tribunals established for trial and punishment or major war criminals in Germany; ap pointment o f members and al ternate member_______________

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Proclamation Exclusive trade agreement with Cuba of October 30, 1947------

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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agriculture Department See also Farm Credit Administra tion.
Rules and regulations :
Limitation of shipments in Cal ifornia and Arizona:
Lemons__ 2_________________
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Oranges 2 documents______28,29

Alien Property, Office of Notices;
Costs and expenses incurred in Certain Illinois courts_______
54
Vesting orders, etc.:
Agrippina Allgemeine Ver sicherungs A. G _________
57
Aoki, Niro, et al_____________
54
Babbe, Dora, et al___________
55
Fuerth, Berta_______________
51
Greve, Henry________
53
Gwiazdowski, Barbara--------54
Hager, Rose________________
52
Hauber, J. George___________
52
Israel, Samuel______________
57
Jensen, Chris_______________
52
Klein and Becker___________
57
Kongo Motor Car Co--- .-----58
Konsu, Taiwa Gin__________
56
Kotzian, Emil___________________ 58
Ridder, Hilda M., et al_____51
Serizawa, Gisaburo 2 docu ments_____________________ 52,53
Sohrbeck, Martha------------53
Ushiroji, Yasuichi------------58
Voigt, Arno, et al___________
56
Zaiser, Christiana-------------51

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