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NUMBER 124

Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 1956

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 3143
Withdrawal
of T rade A greement Con
cession and Adjustment in . R ate of Duty W ith R espect to T oweling of Flax, H emp , or R amie
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

1. WHEREAS, under, the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 a of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the President on October 30, 1947, en tered into a trade agreement with cer tain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade and the re lated Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment 61 Stat. Parts 5 and A7, All, and A2050, and, by Procla mation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947
1 Stat 1103, proclaimed such modifi cations of existing duties and other im port restrictions of the United States mid such continuance of existing cus toms or excise treatm ent of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948;
2. WHEREAS item 1010 in P art I of schedule XX original annexed to the said General Agreement 61 Stat. Part o A1264 reads as follows:
Tariff Act of 1930
para graph
Description of Products
Rate of Duty
1010 Woven fabrics, not Including articles 10%ad finished or unfinished, of flax, hemp, val.
ramie, or other vegetable fiber, ex cept cotton, or of which these sub stances or any of them is the compo nent material of chief value, not spe cially provided for.

3. WHEREAS, in accordance with Ar me H of the said General Agreement
and by virtue of the said Proclamation No. 2761A, the United States duty treat ment of toweling i. e. fabrics chiefly used for making towels of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or any of them is the component material of chief value, described in the said item 1010 is the application to the said towel ing of the rate of duty specified in the column designated Rate of Duty in the said item 1010, which treatm ent re flects the duty concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the said toweling;
4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its re port of an investigation, including a hearing, under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended 65 Stat. 72; 67 Stat. 472; 69
Stat. 162, on the basis of which it has found th at the said toweling is, as a re sult in part of the duty reflecting the concession granted thereon in the said General Agreement, 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 com petitive products;
5. WHEREAS the said Tariff Commis sion has further found th at in order to remedy the serious injury to the said domestic industry it is necessary to re store the rate of duty originally imposed on the said toweling by paragraph 1010
of the Tariff Act of 1930, namely, 40 per cehtum ad valorem, and has accordingly recommended the withdrawal of the duty Concession granted in the said Gen eral Agreement with respect to the said toweling;
6. WHEREAS, I find th at the with drawal for an indefinite period of the duty concession granted in the said Gen eral Agreement with respect to the said toweling, to permit the application to such products of the original rate of duty imposed thereon under paragraph 1010
of the Tariff Act of 1930, is necessary to remedy the serious injury to the said domestic industry; and 7. WHEREAS upon the withdrawal of the said concession the rate of duty Continued on p. 4645

CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation %

Pase
Withdrawal of trade agreement concession and adjustment in rate of duty with respect to toweling of flax, hemp, or ramie_ 4643
EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agricultural Marketing Service
Pfoposed rule making:
Milk in Nashville, Tenn______
Rules and regulations:
Federal Seed Act regulations;
miscellaneous amendments
4678
4651

Agriculture Department
See also Agricultural Marketing Service; Commodity Stabiliza tion Service.
Notices:
Idaho; designation of area pro duction emergency loans___ j 4686
Utah; disaster assistance; de lineation of drought a re a .
4687
Alien Property Office
Notices:
Vested property; intention to return:
Cataldi, Concetta Avallone, et al______
4703
Metcalfe, Miss Gertrude E__ 4703
Rode, Georges____________ 4702
Rolland, Denise Chambard__ 4702
Atomic Energy Commission
Notices:
Licenses:
AMF Atomics, Inc., et al____ 4687
Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Tech nology ---------------------4688
Nuclear Development Corp.
of America_____________ 4687
Civil Aeronautics Administra tion
Notices:
Aviation Safety District Offices and international district and field offices; organization and functions_________ _______ 4684
Rules and regulations:
Minimum en route EFR alti tudes ____________________ 4654
4643