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X O N A L

FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

V

REGISTER
1934

Wanted

NUMBER 134

Washington, Wednesday, July 14, 1937
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A pplication of D uties P roclaimed in C ertain T rade A greements to A rticles the G row th , E tc ., of C ertain C ountries T he W hite H ouse ,
Washington, July 3, 1937.
The Honorable H enry M orgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury.
M y D ear M r . S ecretary : The Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930, approved June 12, 1934 48 Stat. 943, as extended by the Joint Resolution approved March 1, 1937 Public Resolution No. 10, 75th Congress, provides in part that the duties proclaimed under its authority shall be applied to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, whether imported directly or indirectly. The Act further provides that the President may suspend the appli cation of the proclaimed duties to articles the growth, pro duce, or manufacture of any country because of its dis criminatory 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 provisions of the Act, I hereby direct that the duties proclaimed on this date in connection with the trade agreement signed on November 28, 1936, with Costa Rica, and all other duties heretofore proclaimed in connection with trade agreements signed under the authority o f the Act with the exception of the duties proclaimed in connection with the trade agree ment signed on August 24, 1934, with 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 of this letter, only to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the countries hereinafter designated and to such articles, in the case of each country, respectively, for the period indi cated in the numbered section below in which such country is designated.
1. In respect of 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 continue to be applied on and from the date of 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 will cease, to be bound by provisions of a treaty or agreement providing for most-favored-nation treatment in respect of customs duties.
Denmark Italy
Portugal and its colonies and possessions
2. In respect of the products of 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 of such country.
Afghanistan Albania Andorra Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Arabian Shaikdoms not ineluded under any other designation 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 of the trade agree ment concluded with Cuba on August 24, 1934
Czechoslovakia Danzig, Free City of Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Abyssinia Finland Fiance including Algeria 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 Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Iran Persia Iraq
Irish FYee 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 Terri-, tory Latvia Liberia Lithuania Luxemburg Mexico Monaco Morocco Nepal Netherlands and its colonies Newfoundland New Hebrides New Zealand and mandated territories Nicaragua Norway Oman Muscat Panama Paraguay Peru Poland Rumania San Marino Saudi Arabia Siam Spain and its colonies and possessions Sweden Switzerland and Leichtenstein Turkey Union of South Africa and mandated territory Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Uruguay Vatican, City of the
Venezuela Yemen Yugoslavia
Because I find as a fact that their treatment of American commerce is discriminatory, I direct that the proclaimed duties shall not be applied to products of the following countries:
Australia, Commonwealth of Germany My letter addressed to you on May 1, 1937,1 with reference to duties proclaimed in connection with trade agreements 2 P . R , 926 D I.

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