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 61 STAT.] PARAGUAY-RECIPROCAL TRADE-SEPT. 12, 1946 and the Schedules thereunto annexed, and the said notes, are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; WHEREAS it is provided in article XVII, paragraph 1, of the said Agreement that it shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the day of the proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and publication thereof in the Gaceta Oficial of the Republic of Paraguay, or, should such proclamation and publica- tion take place on different days, on the thirtieth day following the date of the later in time of such proclamation or publication; AND WHEREAS the said Agreement was published in the Gaceta Oficial of the Republic of Paraguay on February 26, 1947; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim the said Trade Agreement, including the said Sched- ules and notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof, on and after April 9, 1947, the thirtieth day following March 10, 1947, the date of this my proclamation of the said Agreement. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at Washington this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-seven and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State TRANSLATIONS OF PARAGUAYAN NOTES The Paraguayan Alinister of Foreign Relations and Worship to the American Ambassador REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY Asunci6n, September 12, 1946.- MR. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to refer to the conversations between the represen- tatives of the Governments of the Republic of Paraguay and the United States of America, in connection with the Trade Agreement signed this day, regarding trade relations between Paraguay and con- tiguous countries and Uruguay. In the course of these conversations, the Paraguayan representa- tives have pointed out that although the Government of the Republic of Paraguay is completely in accord with the principle expressed by the representatives of the Government of the United States of America, 95347'- -49-PT. I1---29 2725 Ante, p. 2704. Publication in Ga- ceta Oficial. Proclamation of agreement. 48 Stat. 943. 19 U.t. C. §1351 (a). Effective date.

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