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PROCLAMATIONS — D E C. 24, 1953

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in the following list is required or appropriate to carry out, on and after December 16, 1953, the said trade agreement for accession: Item (paragraph)

Rates of duty

19 1530(a) 1603 1625 1627 1780

64 Stat., Pt. 3, p. B325.

Determination President.

of

64 Stat., Pt. 2, p. A381.

2%^ per lb. 4 % ad val. free free free free;

7. WHEREAS serious problems which have developed in the cattle and beef situation in the United States since negotiation of the said trade agreement for accession render inappropriate the application to the products specified in items 705 and 706 in Part I of Schedule X X in Annex A of the said trade agreement for accession of rates of duty lower than those now applicable thereto; 8. WHEREAS I determine that, in view of the circumstances set forth in the seventh recital of this proclamation, it is required or appropriate, in order to carry out the said trade agreement for accession as fully as possible while such circumstances exist, that the provisions of Items 705 and 706 in Part I of Schedule X X in Annex A of the said trade agreement for accession, which were withheld from application in accordance with paragraph 4 of the said trade agreement for accession by the said proclamation of December 22, 1949, be applied as though they were stated as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

705 706

Description of Products

E x t r a c t of meat, including fluid Meats, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for (except meat pastes, other than liver pastes, packed in air-tight containers weighing with their contents not more than 3 ounces each): Beef packed in air-tight c o n t a i n e r s -. Other

Rate of duty

7J^0 per lb.

30 per than 3j5 per than

lb., 20% lb., 20%

b u t not less ad val. b u t not less ad val.;

9. WHEREAS I determine that, in view of the determination set forth in the sixth recital of this proclamation, the deletion of Item 1530 (a) from the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said procla62 Stat., Pt. 2, p mation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, is required or 1465. appropriate to carry out, on and after December 16, 1953, the said exclusive trade agreement specified in the third recital of this proclamation: Trade agreement NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President modification, etc. of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, includ1 USC 1351, notes, jng the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do 9 proclaim as follows: Parti Determination President.

of

M o d i f i c a t i o n of existing duties, etc.

Effective date. 64 Stat., Pt. 2, p. A380. 64 Stat., Pt. 3, p. B325.

To the end that the said trade agreement for accession specified in the first recital of this proclamation may be carried out as fully as possible, the identification of each of the concessions provided for in Part I of the said Schedule X X in Annex A which is specified in the sixth or eighth recital of this proclamation shall, on and after December 16, 1953, be included in the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of December 22, 1949, as supplemented; Provided, That, unless and until the President proclaims that the circumstances set forth in the seventh recital of this proclamation no longer exist, the provisions of Items 705 and 706 in the said Part I shall be applied

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