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 2934 PROCLAMATIONS, 1927, That the principal competing country for crude magnesite is Greece; That the principal competing country fo!' caustic calcined magnesite is British India; And that the duties fixed in said title and act do not equalize the differences in costs of production in the United States and in said principal competing countries, namely, Greece and British India, and has ascertained and determined the increased rates of duty necessary to equalize the same, m!TarmstroBot (talk)\'i'~n~o d~Kal&~ Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States differences in coets of of America, do hereby determine and proclaim that the increases in the productlOn. t fdt 'dd' 'dth b'd. d d'ff Rates. Crude magnesite. raes0 u y prOVl e ID sal ac sown y sal ascertame I er- ences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same are as follows: An increase in said duty on crude magnesite (within the limit of total increase provided for in said act) from five-sixteenths of 1 cent .. per pound to fHteen thirty-seconds of 1 cent per pound; CaustlCcalclOed mag- And' . 'dd. l'd. (. h- nesite. an IDcrease ID sal uty on caustIC ca cme magnesIte WIt m the limit of total increase provided for in said act) from five-eighths of 1 centpe: pound to fifteen-sixteenths of 1 cent per pound. December 3, 1927. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [SEAL] seven, and of the Independence of the United States of Anwrica the one hundred and fifty-second. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION suii,t~edri~bbri: Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of 'ritle III of the act, of Preamble. . Congress approved September 21, 1922, entItled" An act to prOVIde Statutory authorlZa- ul .h f' . tion. revenue, to reg ate commerce WIt OreIgn countnes, to encourage \'01.42, p . 941. the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," it is, among other things) provided that whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of prcduction of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles whol1y: or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, shall find it thereby shown that the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United States and the principal competing country he shall, by such investigation, ascertain said differences and determine and pro- claim the changes in classifications or increases or decreases in rates of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differences in such costs of production necessary to equalize the same; VoI.42,p.942. Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided that in a,scertaining the differences in costs of production, under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the President, In so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production of such or similar articles in the United States and in competing foreign countries; (2) the differences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic and for- eign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3) advan-

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