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7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, as a result of which the Commission has found that alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 is, as a result in part of the customs treatment reflecting the concession granted with respect to such product in the said General Agreement, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products; 5. WHEREAS section 350(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (48 Stat. 943), authorizes the President to proclaim such modification of existing duties and such additional import restrictions as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350(a); and 6. WHEREAS I find that the modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 to permit the application to such seed of the duties hereinafter proclaimed is necessary to remed}^ the serious injury to the domestic industry producing the like or directly competitive product, and that upon such modification of the concession it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement to applv to alsike clover seed the rates of duty hereinafter proclaimed: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President » T T T - i o i

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of the United States 01 America, acting under the authority vested in adjustment of duty. me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as ^^48 Stat. 943; es stat amended, and in accordance with the provisions of the said General 19 USC issi,i364. Agreement, do proclaim— (a) That the provision in the said item 763 with respect to alsike clover seed, referred to in the second recital of this proclamation, shall be modified, during the 12-month period beginning on July 1, 1954, to read as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

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Description of Products

Rate of duty

Grass seeds and other forage crop seeds:













Alsike clover Provided, That not more than 1,500,000 pounds of such seed entered during the 12-month period beginning on July 1, 1954, shall be dutiable at 2 cents per pound. Any such seed not subject to the rate of 2 cents per pound shall be dutiable at-

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(b) That, during the 12-month period beginning on July 1, 1954, alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 as modified by paragraph (a) above, shall be subject to the rates of duty specified in such modified item 763. Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947, as amended and supplemented, is modified accordingly during the 12-month period beginning on Julv 1, 1954. IN WITNESS 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 30th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the [SEAL] 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

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