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 2492 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. foreign article when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the decrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by sll.id inves- tigation to be necessary to equalize such difference; aud 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 o(production; eqeTarmstroBot (talk) f~ NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the ~IOfprodUCtiOD. United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim a decrease 0.46, p. 00"l. in the rate of duty expressly fixed m paragraph 207 of Title I of said act on crude feldspar, from $1 per ton to 50 cents per ton, the rate found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary (within the limit of total decrease provided for in said act) to equallie such difference in costs of production. December 2, 1931. 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 2d day of December, 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 of State. [No. 1980] HERBERT HOOVER DECREASING RATES OF DUTY ON CYLINDER, CROWN, AND SHEET GLASS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION C:~,fIan~Dsh:f:I~: WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, =~;. autborlza. of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), Uon. entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with VoL46, p.701. foreign 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 produc- tion of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, cylinder, crown, and sheet glass, by whatever process made, and for whatever purpose used, bemg 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 competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearin~ was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at whlCh 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 Belgium, and that tbe duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the decreases in the rates of duty