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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 25, 1955

[69 STAT.

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 first day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

CARRYING O U T THE SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT W I T H SWITZERLAND June 25, 1955 [No. 3099]

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.

68 Stat. C47. 19 USC 1351. 19 USC 1364.

68 Stat. c47. 19 USC 1001, par. 367.

1 USC 1360. 9

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on January 9, 1936, he entered into a trade agreement with the Swiss Federal Council, including two schedules and a declaration annexed thereto (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3918), and by a proclamation of January 9, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3917), he proclaimed the said trade agreement, which proclamation has been supplemented by a proclamation of May 7, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3959), and a proclamation of November 28, 1940 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2461); 2. WHEREAS the said trade agreement specified in the first recital was supplemented on October 13, 1950, by certain provisions set forth in the 13th recital of the President's proclamation of November 26, 1951 (ProclamationNo.2954,66 Stat. c6); 3. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No. 3062 of Julv 27, 1954 (3 CFR, 1954 S U P P., p. 29), acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in the President by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance with the said trade agreement specified in the first recital as supplemented on October 13, 1950, the President proclaimed modifications of duty concessions granted by the United States with respect to certain products described in item 367 (a) of Schedule II of the said trade agreement, effective at the close of business July 27, 1954; 4. WHEREAS the said trade agreement specified in the first recital, as supplemented on October 13, 1950, provides for compensatory modifications thereof, whenever action is taken pursuant to Paragraph 1 of the supplemental provisions referred to in the second recital of this proclamation, in order to maintain, to the extent practicable, the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions in the said trade agreement; 5. WHEREAS I have found as a fact that under the circumstances recited above existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States of America or of Switzerland are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America; 6. WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 72), I transmitted to the United States Tariff Commission for investigation and report a list of all articles imported into the United States of America to be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or continuance of existing customs or excise treatment in trade-agreement negotiations with

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