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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 2491 WHEREAS in the jud~ent of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigatIOn of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equahze such differences in costs of production; ~OW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the eq~a::eaiA~ ~ United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the follow- costsofproduct1on. ing rates of duty found to be shown by said investigation to be neces- sary (within the limit of total decrease and increase provided for in said act) to equalize such differences in costs of production: A decrease m the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1530(e) t= duty on of Title I of said act on turn or turned boots and shoes, made wholly Vol. 411, p:fIfI7. or in chief value of leather, not specially provided for, from 20 per centum ad valorem to 10 per centum ad valorem; An increa..qe in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1530(e) M~l:".!':edd~lesOD of Title I of said act on boots and shoes, made wholly or in chief value . of leather, not specially_provided for, sewed or stitched by the process or method known as McKay, from 20 per centum ad valorem to 30 per centum ad valorem. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and taused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 2d day of Decemht11', in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. By the President: H L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 1979] HERBERT HOOVER DECREASING RATE OF DUTY ON FELDSPAR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION December 2, 1931. WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, =e~eldspar. of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), iStatutory 8uthoriza. entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with t 'Weil. 411, p. 701. foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes, H 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, feldspar, 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 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 investiga- tion that the principal competing country is Canada, 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