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FEDERAL REGISTER

Wednesday, A u g u s t 20, 1952

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America as were then found to be re quired or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after June 6, 1951, which proclamation has been supplemented by several notifications Of the President to the Secretary of the Treasury, including a notification dated October 2,1951, 3 CPR, 1951 Supp., 540;
TD 52836;
2. WHEREAS, as set forth in the 7th recital of the said Proclamation No. 2929, and in accordance with paragraph 3 of the said Torquay Protocol, Schedule X X
contained in Annex A of the said Proto col hereinafter referred to as the Tor quay schedule became a schedule to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade relating to the United States of America on June 6, 1951;
3. WHEREAS item 740 in Part I of the Torquay schedule reads as follows:

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Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph
C O D IF IC A T IO N G U ID E
A numerical list of the parts of the Code of Federal Regulations affected by documents published in this issue. Proposed rules, as opposed to final actions, are identified as such.

Title 3
Chapter I Proclamations:
2867 suspended in part by Proc. 2986-_________________
2874 suspended in part by Proc. 2986__________________
2929 see Proc. 2986________
2985___________________________
2986-__________________________

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Title 5
Chapter I:
Part 6___,_____________________

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Title 6
Chapter I I I :
Part 311______________________

Title 7
Chapter V I:
Part 600____________________
Chapter IX :
Part 986 proposed-------------

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Title 9
Chapter I:
Part 76____
Chapter II:
Part 201 proposed---------------

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Title 15
Chapter II I:
Part 399_________________

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Title 17
Chapter II:
Part 230 proposed__________

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Title 19
Chapter I:
Part 6 2 documents------------

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Title 32A
Chapter i n O P S :
CPR 83______
GCPR, SR 100
Chapter IV:
Subchapter A S S B :
GSSR 2_____________________
GSSR 4_____________________
GSSR 6_____________________
GSSR 7_____________________
Chapter V I N P A :
CMP Reg. 1, Dir. 19___________
CMP Reg. 6, Dir. 7____________
M-69___
M-95__________________________
Chapter X X I O R S :
R R 3_________________________

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Title 39
Chapter I:
Part 53_____

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Title 46
Chapter II:
Part 285______________________

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Title 47
Chapter I:
Part 1________________________
Part 3_______________

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Description of products
Figs,fresh, dried,or in b rin e

Rate of duty
260 per lb.

4. WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Proclamation No. 2929 and the said notification of the President to the Secre tary of the Treasury of October 2, 1951, duty at the rate of 2x/2 cents per pound has been applied to the products de scribed in the said item 740, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con sumption since October 17, 1951, which duty reflects the prevailing United States concession with respect to such products under the said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as supplemented by the said Torquay schedule;
5. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its re port of investigation and hearing under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Ex tension Act of 1951 Public Law 50, 82d Congress, approved June 16, 1951, on the basis of which investigation and hearing it has found that dried figs de scribed in the said item 740 are, as a result in part of the duty reflecting the concession granted thereon in the said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as supplemented by the Torquay sched ule, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products, and as to threaten continuance of such injury;
6. WHEREAS the said Tariff Com mission has recommended that the con cession granted in the said General Agreement as supplemented by the Tor quay schedule with respect to dried figs described in the said item 740 be modi fied to permit the application to such products of a rate of duty of 44 cents per pound, which rate the Commission found and reported to be necessary to prevent the continuance of serious in jury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products;
7. WHEREAS section 350 a 2 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, au thorizes the President to proclaim such modifications of existing duties as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the Presi-

dent has entered into under the said section 350 a ; and 8.
WHEREAS, upon the modification o f the concession granted in the said General Agreement as supplemented by the Torquay schedule with respect to dried figs described in the said item 740
in accordance with the recommendation of the Tariff Commission mentioned in the 6th recital of this proclamation, it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement as supplemented by the Torquay schedule to apply to the said dried figs the rate of duty specified in the said 6th recital:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, H A R R Y S.
TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under the au thority vested in me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7 c of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance with the provisions of Article X IX of the said General Agreement, do proclaim a
That the provisions of item 740 of Part I of the Torquay schedule shall be modified, effective at the close of business August 29,1952, so as to read as follows:
TariffAct of 1930, paragraph 740

Description of products
Figs:
Fresh or in brine___________
D ried_____________ _________

Rate of duty
20perlb.
4 p e rlb.

b That, until the President other wise proclaims, the rates of duty speci fied in such modified item 740, as set forth in paragraph a above, shall be applied to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the close of business August 29, 1952.
The said Proclamation No. 2929 is modi fied accordingly. So long as this procla mation remains in force, the provisions of Proclamation No. 2867 of December 22, 1949 3 CFR, 1949 Supp., 55; TD
52373 and Proclamation No. 2874 of March 1, 1950 3 CFR, 1950 Supp., 21;
TD 52423, insofar as they provide for carrying out United States obligations with respect to the rate of duty on dried figs described in item 740 of Part I of Schedule X X in Annex A of the Annecy Protocol of Terms of Accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, shall be suspended.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal fifty-two, and of the Independ ence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyseventh.
H a r r y S. T r u m a n By the President:
D avid B r u c e ,
Acting Secretary of State.
F. R. Doc. 52-9251; Filed, Aug. 19, 1952;
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