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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 25, 1955

Switzerland looking towards possible restoration of the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions in the said trade agreement, and the said Tariff Commission has made an investigation in accordance with section 3 of said Trade Agreements Extension Act and thereafter reported to the President its findings based thereon; 7. WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate a supplementary trade agreement with Switzerland was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such supplementary agreement were received and considered; 8. WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense, and from other sources, I entered into a trade agreement on June 8, 1955, with the Swiss Federal Council, further supplementing the said trade agreement specified in the first recitalj a copy of which supplementary agreement of June 8, 1955, including the supplemental schedule annexed thereto, authentic in both the English and French languages, is annexed to this proclamation; 9. WHEREAS I find that the compensatory modifications provided for in the said supplementary trade agreement specified in the eighth recital constitute appropriate action toward maintaining the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions in the said trade agreement specified in the first recital, and that the purpose set forth in section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by such compensatory modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the said supplementary trade agreement; 10. WHEREAS it is provided in paragraph numbered 4 of the said supplementary agreement specified in the eighth recital that it shall enter into force on July 11, 1955; 11. WHEREAS I find that such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment of articles as are hereinafter proclaimed in Part I of this proclamation will be required or appropriate, on and after July 11, 1955, to carry out the said supplementary trade agreement specified in the eighth recital; 12. 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 October 30, 1947, he entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (61 Stat. (pt. 4) 3699), and by Proclamation No. 2764 of January Ij 1948 (62 Stat. (pt. 2) 1465), he proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America in respect of the Republic of Cuba and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said exclusive agreement, which proclamation has been supplemented by Proclamation 2929 of June 2, 1951, (65 Stat. cl2) and by the proclamations referred to in the twelfth recital thereof; and 13. WHEREAS I determine that, in view of the finding set forth in the eleventh recital of this proclamation, the deletion of the second item 28 (a) (as amended by the said proclamation of June 2, 1951) from the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, will be required or appropriate to carry out the said exclusive trade agreement specified in the twelfth recital of this proclamation on and after July 11, 1955:

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