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 55 STAT.] CANADA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-DEC. 13, 1940 WHEREAS, such modifications of existing duties and other additional import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the Agreement are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; WHEREAS, it is provided in Article VI of the said Agreement that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of Canada, and that it shall enter definitively into force on the day following the exchange of the Proclamation and the instru- ment of ratification; AND WHEREAS, it is further provided in Article VI of the said Agreement that, pending the definitive coming into force of the Agreement, it shall enter provisionally into force on December 20, 1940; 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, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement of December 13, 1940 to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, provisionally on and after December 20, 1940, pending the definitive coming into force of the Agreement, and definitively on and from the day following the exchange of this my proclamation for the ratifica- tion of His Majesty in respect of Canada, as provided for in Article VI of the said Agreement, and I do further proclaim that my proc- lamation of December 30, 1939, shall be terminated upon the pro- visional application of the present Agreement on December 20, 1940. PURSUANT to the proviso in Section 350 (a) (2) of the said Tariff 8sUtat.943. Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, I shall 135 64 from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties and other import restrictions 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 eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one [SEAL] hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1325

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