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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into here- under. No proclamation shall be made increasing or decreasing by more than 50 per centum any existing rate of duty or transfer- ring any article between the dutiable and free lists. The pro- claimed duties and other import restrictions shall apply to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, whether imported directly, or indirectly: Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any country because of its discrimi- natory treatment of American commerce or because of other acts or policies which in his opinion tend to defeat the purposes set forth in this section; and the proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall be in effect from and after such time as is speci- fied in the proclamation. The President may at any time ter- minate any such proclamation in whole or in part." WHEREAS the period within which the President of the United States of America is authorized to enter into trade agreements under the said section 350(a) was extended by Joint Resolutions of Congress ap- proved March 1, 1937 and April 12, 1940 (48 Stat. 944, 50 Stat. 24, Ante, p. 125 54 Stat. 107; U.S.C., 1940 ed., title 19, sec. 1352(c)); WHEREAS I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the United Mexican States are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in the above-quoted provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States; WHEREAs realsonaible public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such agreement were received and considered; WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Depart- ments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into a Trade Agreement on December 23, 1942, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with the President of the United Mexican States, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary, which Agreement, including three Schedules annexed thereto, in the English and Spanish languages, is in words and figures as follows: 834

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