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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 16, 1957

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TERMINATING IN PART PROCLAMATION N O. 2761A o r D E C E M B E R 16, 1947, W I T H R E S P E C T TO CERTAIN POTATOES, AND M A K I N G RELATED

ADJUSTMENTS May 16, 1957 [^0- 3184]


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A PROCLAMATION

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1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff ^^^ ^^ 1^^^' ^^ amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat. (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269), the President on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a Final Act (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2050); 2. WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by the other proclamations listed in the third recital of Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 Supp., p. 24), by the said proclamation of June 13, 1956, by Proclamation No. 3143 of June 25, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 Supp., p. 33), by Proclamation No. 3146, of June 29, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 Supp., p. 35), and by Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 Supp., p. 44); 3. WHEREAS items 771 [first] and 771 [second], and the appropriate headings, in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which items were given effect by the said proclamation of December 16, 1947, read as follows: "Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph 771

Description of Products White or Irish seed potatoes, certified by a responsible officer or agency of a foreign government in accordance with the official rules and regulations of that government to have been grown and approved especially for use as seed, in containers marked with the foreign government's official certified seed p o t a to tags Provided, That the quantity of such potatoes entitled to entry at such rate of d u t y shall not exceed— for the period from January 1 to September 14, inclusive, in 1948, 2,500,000 bushels of 60 pounds each, less the quantity of such potatoes entered and subject to d u t y at a tariffquota rate during the period from September 15 to December 31, inclusive, in 1947, or for any 12-month period beginning on September 15 in 1948 or any subsequent year, 2,500,000 bushels of 60 pounds each; and any such potatoes not subject to that rate of d u t y shall be dutiable at

Rate of duty

37}iii per 100 lb.

75^ per 100 lb.

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