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 1326 19U. S.C.§1351- 1354. Definitive entry in- to force. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, by my Proclamation of December 18, 1940, I did proclaim and make public the Trade Agreement concerning silver or black foxes, silver or black fox furs and skins, and related articles, which, pursuant to Section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943), as extended by Joint Resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24),[ 1] I entered into on December 13, 1940, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of Canada, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary, to replace the supple- mentary Trade Agreement concerning silver or black foxes, silver or black fox furs and skins, and related articles, entered into between the President of the United States of America and His Majesty in respect of Canada on December 30, 1939; AND WHEREAS my said proclamation of December 18, 1940 was made to the end that the said Agreement of December 13, 1940 and every part thereof might be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, provisionally on and after December 20, 1940, as was provided in Article VI of the said Agreement, and definitively on and from the day following the exchange of my said proclamation for the ratification of His Majesty in respect of Canada, as provided for in the said Article VI; AND WHEREAS, the said proclamation of December 18, 1940 by the President of the United States of America of the said Trade Agree- ment concerning silver or black foxes, silver or black fox furs and skins, and related articles, signed on December 13, 1940, and the ratification of the said Agreement by His Majesty in respect of Canada were duly exchanged at Washington on August 13, 1941; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of December 18, 1940, do hereby proclaim that the said Trade Agreement signed on December 13, 1940, entered defini- tively into force on August 14, 1941, the day following the exchange of my proclamation and His Majesty's ratification. 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 twenty-first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America [SEAL] the one hundred and sixty-sixth. By the President: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT CORDELL HULL Secretary of State 1 [Further extended by Pub. Res., No. 61, approved Apr. 12, 1940 (54 Stat. 107).]

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