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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. rates of duty found to be shown by said investi~ation to be necessary to equalize such differences in oosts of productIon: A decrease in the rates of duty expressly fixed inlara.graph 11l5(b) of Title I of said act.on bodies, hoods, forms, an shapes, for hats, bonnets, caps, berets, and similar articles, manufactured wholly or in part of wool felt, from 40 cents per pound and 75 per centum ad valorem to 40 cents per pound and 55 per centum ad valorem; And 8. decrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed, in addition there- to, in paragraph 1115(b) on all the foregoing, if pulled, stamped, blocked, or trimmed (including finished hats, bonnets, caps, berets, and similar articles) (within the limit of total decrease provided for in said act), from 25 cents per article to 12~ cents per article. 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 16" day of March, in the [SEAL] year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1941] DECREASING RATES OF DUTY ON EDIBLE GELATIN BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 2439 Rate. Vol. 4&, p. 1140. March 111, 1931. W HEREA.S under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, tui arift on edible pia. of t~e act of Congress approved June 17, 1.930, en~itled "An .act to =:- au.tbGri&a- prOVIde revenue, to regulate commerce WIth forelgIl countriesz to tlon. encourage the industries of the United States, to protect Amencan Vol.4&,p .701. labor, and for other purposes," the United Statas Tariff Commis- sion has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in seid section with respect to, edible gelatin, 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 the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to pro- duce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said in.vestigation that the principal competing country is the Netherlands, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic article and the like or similar fore~ article when J?roduced in said principal competing country, and has specified in Its re-port the decrease m the rd.res of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference; aud