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 2542 PROCLAMATIONS, IS32. with respect to, upholsterers' nails, chair glides, and thumb tacks, finished or unfinished, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to like 01' similar articles 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 inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to prflduce 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 Germany, and that the 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 increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production' Inc~easi~g duties to N ow THEREFORE I HERBERT HOOVER President of the United equahze dIfferences In , • " '.. costs of production. States of Amenca, do hereby approve and proclaIm the followmg rates of duty found to be shown by said investigation to be neces3ary (within the limit of total increase provided for in said act) to equalize Vol. 46, p. 616. Derember 14, 1932. such differences in costs of production: An increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 331 of Title I of said act on upholsterers' nails, chair glides, and thumb tacks, of two or more pieces of iron or steel, finished or unfinished, from 3 cents per pound to 4~ cents per pound; and An mcrease in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 331 of Title I of said act on thumb ta.cksz not specially provided for, from six-tenths of 1 cent per pound to rune-tenths of 1 cent per pound. 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 14" day_ of Dec., in thelear of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and 0 the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 2017] HERBERT HOOVER INCREASING RATE OF DUTY ON COCOA-FIBER MATS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION U!~jJ on cocoa-fiber WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, =:;. authoriza- of the act of Congress approved tTune 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701) tion. entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with Vol. 46, p. 701. foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes," the United States