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PROCLAMATIONS — J U L Y 22, 1955

[69 STAT.

of which protocol, and of Schedule X X contained in Annex A thereto, are annexed to this proclamation and identified as Attachment A; 9. WHEREAS the said protocol of accession has been signed by the Government of Japan and that Government will become a contracting party to the said General Agreement on September 10, 1955, provided that by August 11, 1955, favorable votes on a decision pursuant to Article X X X III of the said General Agreement for the accession of Japan to that Agreement under the terms of the said protocol of accession have been received from two-thirds of the governments which are then contracting parties; 10. WHEREAS, the said protocol of accession specified in the eighth recital of this proclamation having been signed on behalf of the Government of the United States of America on June 8, 1955, and the notification of the intention to apply the concessions provided for in Schedule X X contained in Annex A to the said protocol of accession having been given on June 8, 1955, to the Executive Secretary to the CONTRACTING TARTiES to the Said General Agreement pursuant to paragraph 3 of the said protocol of accession, the said Schedule X X contained in Annex A thereto will become a schedule to the said General Agreement relating to the United States of America on September 10, 1955, if the Government of Japan then becomes a contracting party to the General Agreement, as set forth in the ninth recital of this proclamation; 11. WHEREAS, under paragraph 4 of the protocol of accession specified in the eighth recital of this proclamation, a contracting party to the General Agreement which has given the notification referred to in paragraph 3 of the protocol may withhold in whole or in part any concession provided for in its schedule annexed thereto which was initially negotiated with a contracting party which has not given such notification; 12. WHEREAS I find that each modification of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and each continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America which is proclaimed in Part I of this proclamation will be r ^ u i r e d or appropriate to carry out the trade agreement specified in the eighth recital of this proclamation on and after such date as shall be notified by the President to 20 FR 62n. the Secretary of the Treasury, ajid published in the Federal Register, as the date on and after which the President considers such modification or undertaking to continue treatment should not be withheld pursuant to the said paragraph 4 of the protocol of accession specified in the eleventh recital of this proclamation; Negotiations with 13. WHEREAS, the period for the exercise of the authority of the K i n g d o m of the N e the r lands and President to enter into foreign trade agreements under the said section EcoTo^hf untonf ^^^ having been extended by the said Public Law 464 specified in the Canada. eighth recital of this proclamation until the expiration of one year 19 USC 1352 (c). from June 12, 1954, on June 8, 1955, as a result of the finding specified 1352a, 1366. in the fifth recital of this proclamation and following negotiations with the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union, and with the Government of Canada, respectively, regarding compensation for their interests in the concessions in Part I of Schedule X X to the said General Agreement with which the said amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 set forth in the second and third recitals of this proclamation would conflict, I entered, through my duly empowered plenipotentiary, into two trade agreements providing that the United States of America would apply to the products described in such trade agreements the

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