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PROCLAMATIONS—DEC. 26, 1953

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as though they were stated in the manner set forth in the eighth recital of this proclamation. Part II To the end that the said exclusive trade agreement specified in the third recital of this proclamation may be carried out, the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, shall, on and after December 16, 1953, be further amended by deleting therefrom Item 1530 (a) referred to in the ninth recital of this proclamation. 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 24th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

62 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1468.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State

IMPOSING A QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF OATS BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

December 26,19tZ [No. 3041]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as added by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 773, re-enacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246, and as amended by section 3 of the act of July 3, 1948, 62 Stat. 1248, section 3 of the act of June 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 261, and section 8 (b) of the act of June 16, 1951, 65 Stat. 72 (7 U.S.C. 624), the Secretary of Agriculture has advised me that he has reason to believe that oats are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the price-support program undertaken by the Department of Agriculture with respect to oats pursuant to sections 301 and 401 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 1053, 1054), or to reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic oats with respect to which such program of the Department of Agriculture is being undertaken; and WHEREAS, on June 6, 1953, I caused the United States Tariff Commission to make an investigation under the said section 22 with respect to hulled and unhulled oats and unhuUed ground oats; and WHEREAS the said Tariff Commission has made such investigation and has reported to me its findings and recommendations made in connection therewith; and WHEREAS, on the basis of the said investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, I find that hulled and unhulled oats and unhulled ground oats are practically certain to be imported into the United States during the period December 23, 1953, to, September 30, 1954, inclusive, under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the said price-support program with respect to oats; and WHEREAS, I find and declare that the imposition of quantitative limitations not in excess of 23,000,000 bushels of the product of Canada and not in excess of 2,500,000 bushels of the product of other foreign

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7 USC 1447, 1421.

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