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PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 28, 1956

[71 STAT.

it invoked the reservation contained in the note to item 1108 set forth in the second recital of this proclamation, effective October 1, 1956; 6. WHEREAS the fourth general note to the said Schedule X X to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade specified in the second recital of this proclamation provides as follows: "4. If any tariff quota provided for in this Schedule, other than those provided for in items 771, becomes effective after the beginning of a period specified as the quota year, the quantity of the quota product entitled to enter under the quota during the unexpired portion of the quota year shall be the annual quota quantity less Yii thereof for each full calendar month that has expired in such period."; 7. WHEREAS I find that upon invocation of the said reservation set forth in the second recital of this proclamation, effective October 1, 1956, it will be appropriate to carry out the trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation that the ad valorem part of the rate be 45 per centum ad valorem in the case of any of the fabrics described in the said item 1108 or 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule X X to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade set forth in the second recital of this proclamation, or in the said item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule X X to the Torquay Protocol set forth in the fourth recital of this proclamation, excepting in either case articles dutiable at rates applicable to such fabrics by virtue of any provision of the 19 USC 1351. Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, other than paragraph 1108 or 1109 (a): (a) during the period from October 1, 1956, to December 31, 1956, both inclusive, if such fabrics are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the total aggregate quantity of 3,500,000 pounds of such fabrics has been so entered or withdrawn; which quantity I find to be not less than 1 ji per centum of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics; and (b) following December 31, 1956, until otherwise proclaimed by the President, if such fabrics are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any calendar year after that total aggregate quantity by weight of such fabrics which shall have been notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury, and published in the Federal Register, has been so entered or withdrawn during such calendar year; which quantity the President shall have found to be not less than 5 per centum of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics; and 7ostat.c33. 8 WHEREAS the sixteenth recital of Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (21 F. R. 4237), amended the list set forth in the seventh recital of Proclamation No. 2769 of January 30, 1948 (62 Stat. (pt. 2) 1479), and it is required or appropriate to further amend such list: ™p?em'enung NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, PresiProc. No. 2761A. dent of the United States of America, acting under and by virture of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Statutes, 19 USC 1351. including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim as follows: 1. In order to carry out the said trade agreements specified in the first and third recitals of this proclamation, until otherwise proclaimed by the President, the ad-valorem part of the rate which shall be applied to the said fabrics described in the seventh recital of this proclamation, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in excess of the quantity specified in clause (a) of that recital, or

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