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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 4, 1943 ers, may be entered for warehousing and be deposited in a bonded warehouse at the expense and risk of the owner, importer, or consignee. Such merchandise may be withdrawn, at any time within three years from the date of importation, for consump- tion upon payment of the duties and charges accruing thereon at the rate of duty imposed by law upon such merchandise at the date of withdrawal; or may be withdrawn for exportation or for transportation and exportation to a foreign country,. . . with- out the payment of duties thereon, or for transportation and re- warehousing at another port or elsewhere, or for transfer to an- other bonded warehouse at the same port: Provided,That the total period of time for which such merchandise may remain in bonded warehouse shall not exceed three years from the date of impor- tation. . ."; WHEREAS section 559 of the said act, as amended (46 Stat. 744; 52 Stat. 1088; 19 U. S . C . 1559), provides in part as follows: "Merchandise upon which any duties or charges are unpaid, remaining in bonded warehouse beyond three years from the date of importation, shall be regarded as abandoned to the Govern- ment and shall be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe,. . ."; WHEREAS section 318 of the said act (46 Stat. 696; 19 U. S . C . 1318) provides in part as follows: "Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emergency to exist by reason of a state of war, or otherwise, he may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continuance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance of any act. . ."; AND WHEREAS, by my Proclamation No. 2487 (55 Stat. 1647) I did, on May 27, 1941, declare an unlimited national emergency to exist; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the foregoing provision of section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930, do hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, until the termination of the emergency proclaimed on May 27, 1941 or until it shall be determined by the President and declared by his proclamation that such action is no longer necessary, whichever is earlier; (1) To extend the one-year period prescribed in section 491, supra, as amended, for not more than one year from and after the expiration of such one-year period in any case in which said period has already expired or shall hereafter expire during the continuance of said emergency and in which the Foreign Economic Administration cer- tifies to the Commissioner of Customs that such extension will not impede the war effort; and (2) To extend the three-year period prescribed in sections 557 and 559, supra, as amended, for not more than one year from and after the expiration of such three-year period in any case in which said period has already expired or shall hereafter expire during the con- tinuance of said emergency and in which the Foreign Economic Administration certifies to the Commissioner of Customs that such extension will not impede the war effort; and (3) To extend further the one-year period prescribed in section 491, supra, as amended, and the three-year period prescribed in sections 557 and 559, supra, as amended, for additional periods of not more than one year each from and after the expiration of the immediately 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app., note prec. § 1. Extension of period for customs custody. Extension of ware- housing period. Further extensions. 57 STAT.] 759

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