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PROCLAMATIONS—JULY 22, 1955

[69 STAT.

I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set nw hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 23rd day of July in the year of our Ix>rd Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Five and of the [SEAL] independence of the United States of America the One Hundred Eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

CARRYING O U T THE PROTOCOL OF TERMS OF ACCESSION BY JAPAN TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES July 22, 1856 [No. 3105]

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

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff 48 Stat. 943. Act of 1930, a s amended, o n October 30, 1947, h e entered into a trade 19 USC 1351. agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, A 1 1, and A 2 0 5 0), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), he proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by Proclamation 2954 of November 26, 1951 (66 Stat. c 6), by the proclamations referred to in the second recital of the said proclamation of November 26, 1951, by Proclamation 2960 of January 5, 1952 (66 Stat. c l 6), by Proclamation 3007 of March 2, 1953 (67 Stat. c35), and by Proclamation 3059 of June 30, 68 Stat. C44. ] 954 (3 CFR, 1954 S U P P., p. 2 6); 2. WHEREAS Public Law 479,83d Congress (68 Stat. (pt. 1) 454), 19 USC 1001 par. provides as follows: "Paragraph 1530 (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 'For the purposes of this paragraph and any existing or future proclamation of the President relating thereto, footwear of which a major portion, in area, of the basic wearing surface of the outer soles (that part of the article, not including the heel, that is designed to be the basic wearing surface and to resist wear on contact with any surface) is composed of India rubber or any substitute for rubber, or both, shall be deemed to have soles wholly or in chief value of india rubber or substitutes for rubber.' The foregoing amendment shall enter into force as soon as practicable, on a date to be specified by the President in a notice to the Secretary of the Treasury following such negotiations as may be necessary to effect a modification or termination of any international obligations of the United States with which the amendment might conflict, but in any event not later than one hundred and eighty days after the passage of this Act.";

3. WHEREAS section 2 of Public Law 689, 83d Congress (68 Stat. (pt. 1) 896), reads as follows:

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