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 2544 PROCLAMATIONS, 1932. section whh respect to, velveteens and velvets, including velveteen or velvet ribbons, cut or uncut, whether or not the pile covers the entire surface, wholly or in chief va.lue of cotton, 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 principa.l competing countries; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which pa.rties inter- ested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported t.o the President the results of said investigation and its findings with reepect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principa.l competing country for velvets, other than upholstery velvets, wholly or in chief value of cotton, is France, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equa.lize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principa.l competing countries, and has specified in its report the increase in the rate of duty expres.<;ly- fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investI- gation to be necessary to equalize such diIferences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President the increased rate of duty on cotton velvets, other than upholstery velvets, specified in said report is shown by- such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production; Increasin~ duty ~ Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United equalize dlfierence lD S fAm'dhb d I. . . th costs of production. tates 0 enea, 0 ere y approve an proc aun an merease m e Vol.46,p.M2. rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 909 of Title I of said act on velvets, other than upholstery velvets, cut or uncut, whether or not the pile covers the entire surface, wholly or in chief value of cotton, from 62~ per centum ad valorem to 70 per centum ad valorem, the rate found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. December 14, 1932. 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 t.he year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 2019] INCREASING RATES OF DUTY ON FOLDING RULES OF ALUMINUM OR OF WOOD BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION mlfi on folding WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II,
 * t!le. authoriza. of the act of Cong!'ess approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701),

tion. ry entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with VoU6,p.701. foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes," the United States