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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 5, 1939 Cotton card strips, comber waste, lap waste, sliver waste, and roving waste, whether or not manufactured or otherwise advanced in value: Annual quotas by countries Country of origin United Kingdom---_ ________ __- Canada__--____ France - __.---___ -______ __- British India __--___.___- ____- Netherlands. _- _ _- -_ __ - Switzerland -- ___-_______. Belgium --. .- - -- - - __ .. Japan. -- --- _- -- --- -- --- -- --_ China____________ Egypt........-...-_ Cuba_.-... Germany - .- --- --- --. _ Italy-- ..--.. - Total ........... Total quota, provided, however, that not more than 33Y3 percent of the quotas shall be filled by cotton wastes other than card strips and comber wastes made from cottons of ls6 inches or more in staple length in the case of the following countries: United Kingdom Belgium France Germany Netherlands Italy Switzerland Pounds 4, 323, 457 239, 690 227, 420 69, 627 68, 240 44, 388 38, 559 341, 535 17, 322 8, 135 6, 544 76, 329 21, 263 5, 482, 509 Quotas compared with imports for pre- I find and declare that the total quantity of cotton or cotton waste vious period. which may be entered hereunder with respect to each of the countries named herein is not less than 50 per centum of the average annual quantity of cotton or cotton waste which was imported from each of such countries during the period from July 1, 1928, to June 30, 1933, both dates inclusive, and that during the period named no cotton or cotton waste originating in any foreign countries other than those Restriction. enumerated in the foregoing tables was imported into the United States. No cotton or cotton waste originating in any other foreign country, or originating in the United States, shall be permitted to be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the effectiveness of this proclamation. "Cotton" and 1 'cot- As used in this proclamation, except in the first paragraph, the word ton wt ded. "cotton" does not include harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than % of one inch in length and chiefly used in the manufacture of blankets and blanketing,nor cotton linters, and the words "cotton waste" include only card strips, and comber, lap, sliver, and roving wastes. Effective date. This proclamation shall become effective on the 20th day of Septem- ber 1939. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the City of Washington this 5th day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and sixty-fourth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Cotton waste, etc. 2642 [54 STAT.

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