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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 28, 1941 DONE at the city of Washington this 28 th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State IMPOSING QUOTAS ON IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND WHEAT FLOUR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 773), as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 1148, 1152), as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937 (50 Stat. 246), and as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 17), I caused the United States Tariff Commission to make an investigation to determine whether wheat or wheat products are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quan- tities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to wheat under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from wheat; and WHEREAS, in the course of the investigation, after due notice, hearings were held, at which parties interested were given opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard, and, in addition to the hearings, the Commission made such investigation as it deemed necessary for a full disclosure and presentation of the facts; and WHEREAS the Commission has made findings of fact and has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, together with a transcript of the evidence submitted at the hearings, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agriculture: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby find, on the basis of such investigation and report, that wheat and wheat flour are prac- tically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective and materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to wheat under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and to reduce substantially the amount of flour processed in the United States from wheat produced in the United States. Accordingly, I hereby proclaim that the total quantities of wheat and wheat flour originating in any of the countries named in the following table which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con- sumption in any period of 12 months, commencing May 29, shall not exceed the quantities shown opposite each of said countries, which quanities I hereby find and declare shown by the investigation to be necessary to prescribe in order that the entry of wheat and wheat flour will not render or tend to render ineffective or materially inter- fere with the program undertaken with respect to wheat under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, or reduce May 28, 1941 [No. 2489] 7U.S. C. §624. 49 Stat. 163, 1148. 16U. .C.§§590a- 590q. Annual quotas by countries. 1649 85 STAT.]

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