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VOLUME 23

NUMBER 81

Washington, Thursday, April 24, 7958

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 3235
W it h d r a w a l o f T rade A g r e e m e n t C o n
c e s s io n o n C e r t a in C l i n i c a l T h e r

Tariff A ct of 1930, para graph 218 a
m om eters
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the author ity vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350
of the T a r iff Act of 1930, as amended 19
U. S. C. 1351, the President, on April 21, 1951, entered into a trade agreement providing, among other things, for the accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 61 Stat. Parts 5 and 6 A7, A ll, and A2051 o f certain fo r eign countries, which trade agreement consists of the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including the annexes thereto, hereinafter referred to as the "Torquay Protocol 3 U ST 615 ;
2. WHEREAS Schedule X X in Annex A to the said Torquay Protocol 3 UST
1125 became a schedule to the said Gen eral Agreement in accordance with paragraph 3 of the Torquay Protocol 3
UST 616 ;
3. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No.
2929 of June 2, 1951 65 Stat. c l 2 , the President proclaimed such modification of existing duties and other import re strictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or ex cise treatment o f articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the Torquay Protocol, which proclama tion has been supplemented by several notifications o f the President to the Sec retary of the Treasury, including a notification o f September 10, 1951 3
CFR, 1951 Supp., p. 537, as amended by a notification o f September 20, 1951 3
CFR, 1951 Supp., p. 539 ;
4. WHEREAS item 218 a in Part I
of the said Schedule X X 3 UST 1144
reads as follows:

CONTENTS
Description of products
Biological, chemical, metallurgical, pharmaceutical, nd surgical articles and utensils of all kinds, in cluding all scientific ar ticles, and utensils, whether used for experi mental purposes in hos pitals, laboratories, schools or universities, colleges, or otherwise, all the forego ing except -articles provlded for in paragraph 217
or 218 e, Tariff A ct of 1930, finished or unfin ished, wholly or in chief value of glass.

Rate o f duty
42M% ad vai.

5. WHEREAS, in accordanc with Article I I of the said General Agree ment and by virtue of the said proclama tion of June 2,1951, and the said notifica tion of September 10, 1951, as amended, the United States rate of duty applicable to clinical thermometers, finished or un finished, wholly or in chief value of glass, provided for in paragraph 218 a of the Tariff Act of 1930 and included in the said item 218 a , is 42% per centum ad valorem, as specified in the said item 218
a , which duty reflects the tariff con cession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to such prod ucts;
6. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its Investigation No. 63 under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Ex tension Act of 1951, as amended 19
U. S. C. 1364, on the basis of which in vestigation and a hearing duly held in connection therewith the said Commis sion has found that, as a result in part o f the duty reflecting the concession granted thereon in the said General Agreement, clinical thermometers, fin ished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value o f glass, provided for in the said item 218 a , are being imported into the United States in such increased quanti ties, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to thedomestic industry producing like or directly competitive products;
7. WHEREAS the said Ta riff Com mission has further found that in order to remedy the serious injury to the said Continued on p. 2723>

THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation
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Withdrawal of trade agreement concession on certain clinical thermometers__________________

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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agricultural Marketing Service Proposed rule making:
Plums and prunes, fresh; U. S.
standards _________________

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Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice; Commodity Credit Corpora tion.

Atomic Energy Commission Notices:
General Electric Co.; proposed issuance of facility license____

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Alien Property Office Notices :
Marasco, Giacinto, et al. ; inten tion to return vested prop erty------- --------------------------

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Civil Aeronautics Administra tion Rules and regulations:
Standard instrument approach procedures; alterations_____

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Civil Aeronautics Board Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
_Capital Airlines, Inc.; enforcement proceeding_____
Flying Tiger Line, Inc.; airtruck service_______________
Trans World Airlines, Inc.;
enforcement proceeding._
United A ir Lines, Inc.; en forcement proceeding_____
Proposed rule making:
Positive air traffic control ex periment; special civil air regulation_________
Rules and regulations:
Airplane airworthiness; trans port category; flight recorder installations_________________

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Civil Service Commission Rules and regulations:
Housing and Home Finance Agency; exceptions from com petitive service_____ _________
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