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PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 5, 1952

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per centum shall be the produce or manufacture of the United States of Venezuela, nor more than 18.7 per centum the produce or manufacture of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its overseas territories), nor more than 21.9 per centum the produce or manufacture of other foreign countries. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this Fifth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: D E A N ACHESON

Secretary oj State

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MODIFICATION OP TRADE-AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT IN THE January 5, 1952 [No. 2960]

R A T E OF D U T Y W I T H R E S P E C T TO H A T T E R S '

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BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

48 Stat. 943. 19 USC 1351.

61 Stat. p. A1305.

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1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on October 30, 1947 I entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, 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 Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (Parts 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2050), and, by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), I proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948; 2. WHEREAS item 1520 in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the said General Agreement reads as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

1520 61 Stat. p. 1103.

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65 Stat. 74. 19 USC 1364.

Description of Products

Hatters' furs, or furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use, including fur skins carroted

Rate of duty

15% ad val.

3. WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Proclamation No. 2761 A, duty at the rate of 15 percent ad valorem has been applied to products described in the said item 1520 entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption since January 1, 1948, which duty reflects the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to such products; 4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its report of an investigation and hearing under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (Public Law 50, 82d Congress, approved June 16, 1951), on the basis of which it has found

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