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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 28, 1957

[71 STAT.

imposition of additional import restrictions, or continuance of existing customs or excise treatment in the trade agreement negotiations with the Government of the Republic of Cuba referred to in the third recital of this proclamation, and the Tariff Commission made an investigation in accordance with section 3 of the said Trade Agreements Extension Act and thereafter reported to me its determinations made pursuant to the said section within the time period specified therein; 5. WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to conduct trade agreem.ent negotiations with the Republic of Cuba was given, the views presented by persons interested in such negotiations were received and considered, and information and advice with respect to such negotiations was sought and obtained from the Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense, and from other sources; 6. WHEREAS, the period for the exercise of the authority of the President to enter into foreign trade agreements under the said section 350, as now amended, having been extended by section 2 of the 19 USC 1351. Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 162, ch. 169) from June 12, 1955, until the close of June 30, 1958, on June 20, 1957, as a result of the findings set forth in the third recital of this proclamation, I entered, through my duly authorized representative, into a trade agreement providing for the application of the relevant provisions of the General Agreement to additional schedules of tariff concessions relating to the United States of America and to the Republic of Cuba, which trade agreement consists of the Eighth Protocol of Supple8USTpt.2,p.i367. mcutary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated June 20, 1957, including a schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as "Schedule X X (Havana—1957)"), which trade agreement is authentic in the English and French languages as indicated therein, and a copy of which is annexed to this proclamation; 7. WHEREAS the supplementary trade agreement specified in the sixth recital of this proclamation provides that the schedule annexed thereto relating to a negotiating contracting party shall be regarded as a schedule to the General Agreement relating to that contracting party on the thirtieth day following the day on which the protocol shall have been signed by such contracting party or on June 29, 1957, which ever is the earlier, and such protocol was not signed on behalf of the United States prior to May 30, 1957; 8. WHEREAS I find that each modification of existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States of America and each continuance of existing customs or excise treatm.ent of articles imported into the United States of America which is proclaimed in Part I of this proclamation will be required or appropriate, on and after the dates specified in the said Part I, to carry out the trade agreement specified in the sixth recital of this proclamation; 9. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350, as then 19 USC 1351. amended, the President on October 30, 1947, entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (61 Stat. (pt. 4) 3699), which exclusive trade agreement includes certain portions of other documents made a part thereof and provides for the treatment in respect of ordinary customs duties of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America; 10. WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2764 of January 1, 1948 (62 Stat, (pt, 2) 1465), 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 exclusive trade agreement specified in the ninth recital of this proclamation

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