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 3518 PROCLAMATIONS, 1936. IN 'VITNESS 'WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixell. DONE at the City of Washington this 18" day of ~[ay, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hun- dred and sixtieth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT l~o. 2170] INcnEA~IXG RATE~ O}<' DUTY OX COTTON CLOTH May 21,1936. BY THE PHl';SIDENT OF THE UXITED STATES OF AMEIUCA A PROCLAMATION 'I'aritYon cotton cloth, 'WHEREAS pursuant to section 336 of Title III, Part II, of the et~tatutory Ifuthoriza- Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), the United States Tariff Com- tlO~o1. 46 J,,701 . mission has investigated the differences in cost~ of production of, and , all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, cotton cloth, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country3 WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at, which parties in- terested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the Commission has reported to tho President the re- sults of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differ- ences in costs of production; WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by said investiga- tion that the principal competing country is Japan, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of proc1uction of the domestic article and the like or similar for- eign article when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increases in the rates o.f duty expressly fixed by statute found by the Commission to be shown by said in- vestigation 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 Commip.sion to be neces- sary to equalize such differences in costs of production: eq~n~r:sm'&erTarmstroBot (talk)9 f~ NOW, TH~REFORE, I, FR4NKLIN D. ROO~EVELT, Presi- co~ts 01 production, dent of the Umted States of Amenca, under and by Vi.rtue of the auth- Vol. 46, p. 701. ority vested in me by sec. 336 (c), Title III, Part II of the said Act do hereby approve and proclaim incretlscs in the rates of duty ex- Vol. 46. p. 641. pressly fixed in Paragraph 904 (b) of Title I of the said Act on cotton cloth, bleached, containing yarns the average number of which ex- ceeds number 30 but does not exceed number 50, from 13 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, thirty-five one-hundredths of 1 per centum ad valorem, to 18}f per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, one-half of 1 per centum ad valorem; and increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed