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 54 STAT.] VENEZUELA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-NOV. 6, 1939 WHEREAS it is provided by Article XIX of the said modus vivendi that it shall enter into force on December 16, 1939, and that, subject to the provisions of Articles VI, IX, and XII, it shall continue in force for a period of one year, and that it may be extended, upon the expiration of the aforesaid period of one year or upon the expiration of any extension, for further periods of six months, and that it shall terminate upon the entry into force of the definitive agreement be- tween the United States of America and the United States of Venezuela signed on November 6, 1939; WHEREAS it is provided in Article XIX of the said definitive agree- ment that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by the Government of the United States of Venezuela in conformity with the laws of the respec- tive countries, and that the said agreement shall enter into full force thirty days after the exchange of the proclamation and the instrument of ratification; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, as extended by the said Joint Resolution of March 1, 1937, do hereby proclaim the said modus vivendi and definitive agreement, including the two Schedules annexed to each of them, to the end that the said modus vivendi and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled by the United States of America and the citi- zens thereof on December 16, 1939, and thereafter during its con- tinuance in force and to the end that the said definitive agreement and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled thirty days after the exchange of this my proclamation for the instrument of ratifica- tion of the Government of the United States of Venezuela, as provided for in Article XIX of the said definitive agreement. PURSUANT to the proviso in Section 350 (a) (2) of the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, I shall from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary oJ State. 2401 Ante, p. 2382. Ante, pp. 2378, 2379, 2380. Proclamation. 48 Stat. 943; 50 Stat. 24. 19 U. S. C.0i 1351- 1354; Supp. V, I§ 1351, 1352. Ante, p. 107.

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