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PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 17, 1956

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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. D O N E at the City of Washington this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

FIXING January 17, 1956 [No. 3122]

A LATER DATE FOR TERMINATION OF ECUADORAN AGREEMENT PROCLAMATION

TRADE

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

A PROCLAMATION

69 Stat. 162. 19 USC 1351.

19 USC 1352.

.53 Stat. 1966.

19 USC 1351.

Ante, p. C7.

Ecuadoran Trade Agreement Proclamation. Termination date. 69 Stat. 162. 19 USC 1351.

WHEREAS, under the authority vested in him by section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the act of June 12, 1934, entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), the time within which the President was authorized to enter into trade agreements pursuant to such amending act having been extended for three years from June 12, 1937, by the joint resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the Supreme Chief of the Republic of Ecuador on August 6, 1938 (53 Stat. 1952), and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamation of September 23, 1938 (53 Stat. 1951); and WHEREAS Article X IX of the said trade agreement provides that the agreement shall remain in force and effect until six months from the day on which either Government shall give notice of its intention to terminate it; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Article X IX the Government of the United States of America gave notice on July 18, 1955, of its intention to terminate the said agreement, which notice was withdrawn by the Government of the United States of America on January 17, 1956, and on the same day replaced by a new notice of intention to terminate pursuant to the said Article X IX; and WHEREAS the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, authorizes the President to terminate, in whole or in part, any proclamation carrying out a trade agreement entered into under such section; and WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 3111 of August 27, 1955 (20 F. R. 6485) the President proclaimed that the said proclamation dated September 23, 1938 should be terminated as of the close of January 17, 1956, six months from the day on which notice of termination of the said trade agreement had been given by the Government of the United States of America: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim that the said proclamation of August 27, 1955 shall be arriended (1) by deleting "July 18, 1955" as the date on which notice

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