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 1722 PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. INCREASING DUTY ON FISH PACKED IN OIL December 14, 1933. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION IDT:fi~gDftsb,packed WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of title III, part II, ~eac:nble. . of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), tl::~tutory ButboflZ3- 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 Tariff ComInission has investigated the differences in costs of pro- duction of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, fish, prepared or preserved in any manner, when packed in oil or in oil and other substances, being wholly or in part the growth or j>roduct of the United States and of and with re- spect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the I!rincipal competing countries; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation hearings were held, of which reasonable public notice wus given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to pro- duce 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 diffcr- ences in costs of production; WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by said investi- gation that the principal competing country for tuna fish, prepared or preserved in any manner, when packed in oil or in oil and otlwr substances, is Japan, and that the principal competing country for fish other than tuna prepnred or preserved in any manner, when packed in oil or in oil and other slIhstllnces, is Norwa>;:, and that the duties expressly fixed by stntute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in snid principal competing countries, and has specified in its report the incrcnses in the rate of duty ex- pressly fixed by statute found by the COHnnission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equnlize such differences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the }>resident such rates of duty nrc shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equahze such differences in costs of production: eq~8~::S!fifre20:10, 8 July 2014 (UTC) f~ NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- costs of production. dent of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the following rates of duty found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production: Vol. 46, p. 633. An increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 718 (n) of title 1 of said act on tuna fish, prepared or preserved in any mnnner, when packed in oil or in oil and other substances, from 30 per centum ad valorem to 45 per centum ad valorem' and An increase in the rate of duty expressfy fixed in paragraph 718 (II) of title I of said act on fish other than tuna, prepared or preserved in any manner, when packed in oil or in oil and other substances, and of a value not exceeding 9 cents per pound, including the weight of the immediate container only, from 30 per centum ad valorem to 44 per centum ad valorem.