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PROCLAMATIONS — J U N E 25, 1956

[70 STAT.

WITHDRAWAL OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT IN RATE OF DUTY W I T H RESPECT TO TOWELING OF FLAX, H E M P, OR RAMIE June 25, 1956 [No. 3143]

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

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, under the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act 69 Stat. 162.

of 1930, as amended, the P r e s i d e n t on October 30, 1947, entered into

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^ trade 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. (Parts 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2050), and, by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), 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; 2. WHEREAS item 1010 in Part I of Schedule X X (original) annexed to the said General Agreement (61 Stat. (Part 5) A1264) reads as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

1010

61 Stat. 1103.

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Description of Products

Rate of duty

Woven fabrics, not including articles finished or u n finished, of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable fiber, except cotton, or of which these substances or any of the m is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for 1 0 % ad val.

3. WHEREAS, in accordance with Article II of the said General Agreement and by virtue of the said Proclamation No. 2761 A, the United States duty treatment of toweling (i. e. fabrics chiefly used for making towels) of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or any of them is the component material of chief value, described in the said item 1010 is the application to the said toweling of the rate of duty specified in the column designated "Rate of D u t y " in the said item 1010, which treatment reflects the duty concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the said toweling; 4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its report of an investigation, including a hearing, under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (65 Stat. 72; 67 Stat. 472; 69 Stat. 162), on the basis of which it has found that the said toweling is, as a result in part of the duty reflecting the concession granted thereon in the said General Agreement, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products; 5. WHEREAS the said Tariff Commission has further found that in order to remedy the serious injury to the said domestic industry it is necessary to restore the rate of duty originally imposed on the said toweling by paragraph 1010 of the Tariff Act of 1930, namely, 40 per centum ad valorem, and has accordingly recommended the

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