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 IRAN-RECIPROCAL TRADE-APR. 8, 1943 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 discrim- inatory 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 specified in the proclamation. The President may at any time terminate any such proclamation in whole or in part." WHEREAS the period within which the President of the United States of America was authorized to enter into trade agreements under the said section 350(a) was extended by joint resolutions of Congress approved March 1, 1937 and April 12, 1940 (48 Stat. 944; 50 Stat. 24; 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 Iran 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 Iran; WH:EAS reasonable 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; WHmEAs, 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 April 8, 1943, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with His Imperial Majesty the Shah-in- Shah of Iran, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary, which agreement, including two schedules annexed thereto, in the English and Persian languages, is in words and figures as follows: The President of the United States of America and His Imperial Majesty the Shah-in-Shah of Iran, being desirous of strengthening the traditional bonds of friendship between the two countries by main- taining as heretofore the principle of equality of treatment as the basis of commercial relations and by granting mutual and reciprocal concessions and advantages for the promotion and extension of trade, have decided to conclude a Trade Agreement and for that purpose have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, as follows: The President of the United States of America: Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and His Imperial Majesty the Shah-in-Shah of Iran: Mohammed Shayesteh, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary at Washington; 19 U. . C., Supp. III, §1352 (c). Purpoes declaed. 1323 58 STAT.]

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