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 PROCLAMATIONS-DEC. 10, 16, 1947 freedom under law-particularly the guarantees of freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly, as well as the pledges of fair trial and of security against unreasonable searches and seizures, and against the deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. IN WITNESS 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 tenth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Deoember 16,1947 [No. 2761A] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS (1) section 350 (a) and (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, Foreign trade gree- as amended by section 1 of the act of June 12, 1934 entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930," by the Joint Resolution ap- proved June 7, 1943, and by section 2 of the Act of July 5, 1945, 44 Stat.943; 69 Stat. provides as follows: 19U.s.C.C 1351(a), (b). "Sec. 350. (a) For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American produc- tion so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be promoted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time- "(1) To enter into foreign trade agreements with foreign governments or instrumentalities thereof; and "(2) To proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into hereunder. No proclamation shall be made increasing or de- creasing by more than 50 per centum any rate of duty, however established, existing on January 1, 1945 (even though temporarily 61 STAT.] 1103

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