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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1934. 1'739 NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- eq20:13, 8 July 2014 (UTC) ~ dent of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim C<lst8 of production. decreases in the rates of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1539 (b) VoU6,p.6G8. of title I of said act on laminated products (whether or not provided for elsewhere in the Tariff Act of 1930) of which any synthetic resin or resin-like substance is the chief binding agent, in sheets or plates, from 25 cents per pound and 30 per centum ad valorem to 15 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem, the rates found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference ill costs of production. 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 23 4 day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: 'V ILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary (if State. [No. 2080] CHANGING DUTY ON CAlIOlIOED CLAMS BY THE PRESIDElIOT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of title III, part II, of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with 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 pro- duction of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, clams, packed in air-tight containers, 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 principal competing countries; 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 for razor clams (siliqua patula), packed in air-tight containers, is Canada, and that the duty expressly fixed by statute does not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign artICles when produced in said principal competing country j and that the principal competing country for clams other than razor clams, and clams in combination with other substances (except clam chowder), packed in air-tight containers, is Japan, and that said difference with respect to these articles cannot be equalized by pro- ceeding under the provisions of subdivision (a) of said section and act; May], ]934. Canned clams. Preamble. Vol. 46, p. 701.