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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1981. thereof, 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 the principal com{)6ting country· WHEREAS in the course of said inves~ation a heanng was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce 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 investigation that the principal competing country is Czechoslovakia and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing co=, and has specified in its report the decrease in the rate of duty ~ '1 fixoo by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investi- gation to be n~ to equalize such difference; and 2463 WHEREAS in the Judgment of the President such rate of duty is shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production; Now, THEREFORE, I, HEBBERT HOOVER, President of the United ~ dutJ f: States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim a decTe8Se in the =*fc.= rate of duty expressly fixed m paragraph 412 of Title I of said act on Vol. . p. CI3Q. bent-wood furniture, wholly or p&rtly finished, and parts thereof, from 47~ per centum ad rolorem to 42~ per centum ad valorem, the rate found to be shown by said inves~ation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. 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 24" day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United Stat"R,s of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary of State [No. 1958] DECREASING RATE OF DuTY ON OLIVE OIL BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION laDe 2t, laJ.. WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, Tari1roDoIiTeoil. of the act of Congress approved Jun_~ ~71 1930 (46 Stat. 701), entitled ~.:;- autbGriza. "An act to provide revenue, to regwate commerce with foreign ~l 40 P 701 countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect ... American labor, and for other purposes," the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, olive oil, 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;