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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. Whereas, under and by virtue of said section of said act, the United Stutes Tariff Ccmmission has made an investigation to assist t.he President in ascertaining the differences in costs of production of and 2991 of all other facts and conditions enumerated in ~aid section with Vol. 42, p. 892. respect to the arti~les described in paragraph 713 of Title I of said tariff act of 1922, namely, whole eggs, egg yolk, and egg albumen, frozen or otherwise prepared or prese:rved, and not specially provided for, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries; 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 prouuce evidence, and to be heard; And whereas the President upon said investigation {If said differ- ences in costs of production of the said articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of the like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, has thereby found that the principal competing country is China and that the duty fixed in said title and act does not equalize the differences in costs of production: in the United States and in said pri.ncipal competing country, namely, China, and has ascertained and determined the increased rate of duty necessary to equalize the same. Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States e Increrin~o de~tKal~ of America, do hereby determine and proclaim that the increase in dTarmstroBot (talk)re in costs of the rate of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained productIOn. differences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same is as follows: An increase in said duty on whole eggs, egg yolk, and egg albumen, Rate. frozen or otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, from 6 cents per pound to 7 ~ cents per pound. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Ste-tes to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, 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

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