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Oats. Import quota.

7 USC 624.

PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 25, 1954

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countries are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary in order that the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of oats described in the preceding paragraph of this proclamation during the period December 23, 1953, to September 30, 1954, will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the said price-support program; and I further find and declare such permissible total quantity to be proportionately not less than 50 percentum of the total average aggregate annual quantity of such oats entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the representative period July 1, 1948, to June 30, 1951, inclusive; WHEREAS Canada has undertaken to limit exports of oats to the United States to 23,000,000 bushels during the period from midnight December 10, 1953, to midnight September 30, 1954: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the total aggregate quantity of hulled and unhulled oats and unhuUed ground oats, other than oats the product of Canada, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period December 23, 1953, to September 30, 1954, inclusive, shall not be permitted to exceed 2,500,000 bushels of 32 pounds each. The provisions of this proclamation shall not apply to certified or registered seed oats for use for seeding and crop-improvement purposes, in bags tagged and sealed by an officially recognized seedcertifying agency of the country of production: Provided, (a) that the individual shipment amounts to 100 bushels (of 32 pounds each) or less, or (b) that the individual shipment amounts to more than 100 bushels (of 32 pounds each) and the written approval of the Secretary of Agriculture or his designated representative is presented at the time of entry, or bond is furnished in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs in an amount equal to the value of the merchandise as set forth in the entry, plus the estimated duty as determined at the time of entry, conditioned upon the production of such written approval within 6 months from the date of entry. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this 26th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and [SEALI of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State

ARMED FORCES D A Y, January 25, 1954 [No. 3042]

1954

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

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the members of the armed forces of the United States have constantly demonstrated their loyalty and devotion to the se]'vi(e of their country; and WHEREAS the men and women of the armed forces are actively engaged, at home and overseas, in upholding and defending our

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