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 PROCLAMATIONS-JUNE 11, 12, 1948 1519 Part III That the modifications provided for in said protocol modifying certain provisions of said general agreement specified in the 5th recital of this proclamation became effective on April 15, 1948; said special protocol modifying article XIV specified in said 5th recital became effective on April 19, 1948; and the amendment contained in said special protocol relating to article XXIV specified in said 5th recital will become effective upon acceptance by two-thirds of the contracting parties to said general agreement. 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 11th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State Ante, p. 1516. HARRY S TRUMAN SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION OF DECEMBER 16, 1947 CARRYING OUT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS (1), pursuant to the authority conferred by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the Act of June 12, 1934, by the Joint Resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by sections 2 and 3 of the Act of July 5, 1945 (48 Stat. 943 and 944, ch. 474, 57 Stat. 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. 410 and 411, ch. 269; 19 U. S. C. (1946) 1351), the period within which said authority may be exercised having been extended by section 1 of said Act of July 5, 1945 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1945 (48 Stat. 944, ch. 474, 59 Stat. 410, ch. 269; 19 U. S. C. (1946) 1352 (c)), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with the Govern- ments of the Commonwealth 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 Czecho- slovak 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, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Con- clusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which au- thenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol; WHEREAS (2) on December 16, 1947 by Proclamation 2761A the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continu- ance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948 (12 F. R. 8863), which proclamation has been supplemented by Proclamation 2769 of January 30, 1948 (13 F. R . 467), Proclamation June 12, 1948 [Xo. 2791 61 Stat., p. All. 61 Stat., A2051. Pt. 5, Pt. 6, 61 Stat. , Pt. 5, p. AS. 61 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1103. Ante, p. 1479. 62 STAT.]

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