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 PROOLAMATION S, 1927. i2637 article wholly or in part thetgrowth or product I of competing- foreign eountries, has thereby foun that the principalcomfeting country is Germany and that the duty iixed in said title an *act does not equalize t e differences in costs of production in the United States and in said prir:-gial competingcountry, namely, Germany, and has ascertained, determined the increased rate of duty necessary to equalize the same. V .¥. . ` — A J r ‘ Iuumm dm 0,, - N ow, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge,iPresident of the United States §gg1}j;‘iQ;•$*¤@;¢§§j of America, do hereby determine¤‘and!§£roclaim that theincrease in auction. the rate ofduty provided in said act own by said ascertained dif- fergnlries in said costs of production necessary to equalize the sameis asoowszv ·-  » ·»   · An increase in said duty on goldleaf (within_the<1imit of total R°*°· increase provided forin said act) from 55 cents ·per one hundred leaves to 82% cents perone hundredleavesr ` The foregoing rate of 82% cents per one hundred leaves applies to leaf not exceeding in size the equivalent of three and three-eighths by three and;three— eighths inches; additional duties in the same proportion shall be assessed on leaf exceediniin size saidequivalent. ( · - s IN WITNESS WHE V EOF, I have-hereunto set my_ hand. and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. s ·, _ Done at the city of Washinggur this twenty-third day of February in the year of our rd‘ one thousand nine hundred and [snn.] twenty-seven, and of the Independence off the: United States of Americathe one hundred and §fty·iirst. · A · "CALVIN Coonrncn By the President: V · ‘ ‘ “ Q Josnrn C. Gnmw Acting Secretary of Stale. Br ·rnn Pnnsrnnwr or ·rnm,Um·rnn Srxrms A PROCLAMATION4 Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of»Title III of the act of Congress m§°{§1g'gd*;,°f* ’° *"¤ approved September21, 1922, entitled "An act to provide revenue, to 1*mm»b1•· bmw regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries a.${°°`"°” °°° of _the Umted States, and for other ;§.;.$oses," it rs, among other "°‘·"~¤°“~ things, provided that whenever the Pr ' ent, upon investigation of the differences in costs of Elroduction of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of t e United States and of like or similar artic es wholly or in part the growth or product of oompetin foreign conmtries, shall find it thereby shownthat the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United States and the principalcompeting country he shall, by such investigation, ascertain said differences and determine and proclaim the changes in_c1assiHcations or increases or decreases in rates of dutg provided m said act shown by said ascertained differences in suc costs of production necessary to equalize the same· Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided vein, p. uz. that _in ascertaining the differences in costs of production, under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the President m so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costsof material, and other items in costsof production o suc or similar articles in the United_States and in competing foreign coun_tries· (2)  differences in the wholesale selling prices of ornestics and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3)

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