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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TBEATIES [61 STAT. September 12, 1946 [T. I. A. S. 1601] 19U.S.C.j1351(a). 19U. .C.i132 (c). 19 U.S .C.§134. Agreement and supplementalexchanges of notes between the United States of America and Paraguay respecting reciprocal trade. Signed at Asunci6n September 12, 1946; published in Gaceta Qfcial of the Re- public of ParaguayFebruary26, 1947; proclaimed by the Presidentof the United States of America March 10, 1947; effective April 9, 1947. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the act of June 12, 1934 entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), and as further amended by the joint resolution of June 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 125) and by the act of July 5, 1945 (59 Stat. 410), provides that the President is authorized under the terms and conditions set forth in said enactments to enter into trade agree- ments with foreign governments or instrumentalities thereof, and 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 trade agreements, as are required or appro- priate to carry out any such trade agreement; WHEREAS the period during which the President is authorized to enter into trade agreements under the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, has been extended by joint resolutions approved March 1, 1937, April 12, 1940 and June 7, 1943, and by act of July 5, 1945 (50 Stat. 24; 54 Stat. 107; 57 Stat. 125; 59 Stat. 410), the latest extension being effective for a period of three years from June 12, 1945; WHEREAS I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting pursuant to the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the Republic of Paraguay are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Paraguay; WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given as prescribed by section 4 of the act of June 12, 1934 entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 945), as amended by the act of July 5, 1945 (59 Stat. 411), 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 to such agreement from the United States Tariff Com- mission, the Departments of State, War, Navy, Agriculture, and 2688

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