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 65 STAT.1

PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 2, 1951

required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by the proclamations referred to in the second recital of Proclamation No. 2867 of December 22, 1949 (3 CFR, 1949 S U P P., p. 55), and by the said proclamation of December 22, 1949, Proclamation No. 2874 of March 1, 1950, Proclamation No. 2884 of April 27, 1950, Proclamation No. 2888 of May 13, 1950, Proclamation No. 2901 of September 6, 1950, Proclamation No. 2908 of October 12, 1950, and Proclamation No. 2912 of October 30, 1950 (3 CFR, 1950 S U P P., pp. 21, 28, 32, 51, 63, and 68); 3. WHEREAS 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 Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Dominican Republic, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Indonesia, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Korea, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway, Peru, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Republic of Turkey are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purposes declared in the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the acts specified in the first recital of this proclamation and by sections 4 and 6 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 698), 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 other countries named in this recital; 4. WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to conduct trade-agreement negotiations with the governments of the countries other than the United States of America named in the third recital of this proclamation was given, the views presented by persons interested in such negotiations were received and considered, and information and advice with respect to such negotiations was sought and obtained from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Defense, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources; 5. WHEREAS (pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the acts specified in the first and third recitals of this proclamation, the period for the exercise of the authority to enter into trade agreements under the said section 350 having been extended by section 3 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1948), the trade-agreement negotiations with the countries named in the third recital of this proclamation having been successfully carried out, on April 21, 1951, I entered, through my duly empowered plenipotentiary, into a trade agreement providing for the accession to the said General Agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation of the Governments of the Republic of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Peru, and the Republic of Turkey, and for the application of the relevant provisions of the said General Agreement to additional schedules of concessions relating to countries already contracting parties thereto, including the countries named in the third recital of this proclamation other than the United States of America and other than those countries previously named in this recital, which trade agreement consists of the Torquay Protocol to the Genelal Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated April 21, 1951, including the Annexes thereto, authentic in the English

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64 Stat., P t. 2, pp. A380, A390, A399, A405, A443, A450.

Findings of President.

19 U.S.C. § 1351.

Public notice; advice from agencies.

Torquay Protocol.

63 Stat. 698. 19 U.S.C. 11352.

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