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 2984 Yo!. 42, !l. 800. PROCLAMATIONS, 1928, 1929. 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, 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- tages granted to a foreign producer by a foreign government, or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association in a foreign country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competition; Whereas) under and by virtue of said section of said act, the United States Tariff Commission has made an investigation to assist the President in ascertaining the differences in costs of production of and of all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to the articlo described in paragraph 768 of Title I of said tanff act of 1922, namely, onions, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign count.ries; Whereas in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; And whereas the President upon said investigation of said differ- ences in costs of p:roduction of the said article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of the like or similar article wholly or m part the growth or product of competing foreign coun- tries, has thereby found that the principal competing country is Spain and that the duty fixed in said title and act does not egualize the differences in costs of production in the United States and m said principal competing country, namely, Spain, and has ascertained and determined the increased rute of duty necessary to equalize the same. on02:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC);negqu~m! d Now, ~herefore, I, Calvin C~olidge, Preside.nt of the U~ted Stat~s feren.ces in costs of pro· of Amenca, do hereby determme and proclaIm that the mcrease m ductlOn. the rate of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differ- ences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same is as Rate. January 7, 1929. follows: An increase in said duty un onions (within the limit of total increase provided for in said act), from 1 cent per pound to 1,Y2 cents per pound. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set m, band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [SEAL] eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B. KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA tI~O~\~I~J':e;:~: I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United States of wmble America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Section 2 of the ls:WcJ:ie~: Hd. Act entitled, "An Act for the preservation of American antiquities",

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