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 PROCLAMATIONS-DEC. 16, 1947 WHEREAS (4) I, Harry S. Truman, 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, the Common- wealth of Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Czechoslovak Republic, the French Republic, India, Lebanon, the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Norway, Pakistan, Southern Rhodesia, Syria, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Governments of some or all of the above-named countries; WHEREAS (5) reasonable public notice of the intention to nego- tiate such trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation thereof were received and considered; WHEREAS (6), after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, the Army, and the Navy, and from other sources, on October 30, 1947 I entered, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, into a trade agreement with the Governments of the above-named countries, which trade agreement, consisting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade including nine annexes and twenty schedules and the related Protocol of Pro- visional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which authenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol, which trade agreement is authentic in the English and French languages as indicated and is embodied in the document annexed to this proclamation; WHEREAS (7) the Governments of the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, and the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, and, in respect of their respective metropolitan terri- tories, the Governments of the Kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having signed said protocol prior to November 15, 1947, will apply provisionally, on and after January 1, 1948, pursuant to paragraph 1 thereof, (a) parts I and III of said general agreement and (b) part II thereof to the fullest extent not inconsistent with existing legislation; WHEREAS (8) I determine, in accordance with the provisions of article XXVII of said general agreement, that the concessions pro- vided for in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement which are identified in the following list should not be applied so long as such concessions are identified in such list: Item (paragraph) 8 ...... 15 [second] .... 15 [third] .... 24 [first] ..... 35....... 41 [third] .... 52....... 53. . . . . . . 54 [second] .... 48 Stat. 943. 19U. .c.. 1351 (a). General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. 61 Stat., Pts. 5, 6. 61 Stat., Pt. 6. 61 Stat., Pt. 5. Rates of duty 1I per lb. 50¢ per lb. 17% ad val. All rates 5% ad val. 10% ad val. and 2¢4 per lb. 34 per gal. [second such rate], identified only as to whale oil. 1M4 per lb. 3¢ per lb. 95347--49-PT. II - - -10 1105 61 STAT.]

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