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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 29, 1957

[71 STAT.

4. WHEREAS the said Article X IX of the General Agreement provides for consultation with those other contracting parties, having a substantial interest as exporters of products with respect to which action has been taken under that Article, with a view to agreement being reached among all interested contracting parties; 5. WHEREAS I have found as a fact that, under the circumstances recited above, existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States of America, or of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which last three countries are the contracting parties to the General Agreement having a substantial interest as exporters, are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America; 6. WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3(a) of the said Trade Agree19use 1360. ments Extension Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 72, ch. 141), I transmitted to the United States Tariff Commission for investigation and report a list of all articles imported into the United States of America to be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or continuance of existing customs or excise treatment in the trade agreement negotiations with the governments of the foreign countries referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation, and the Tariff Commission made an investigation in accordance with section 3 of the said Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 and thereafter reported to me its determinations made pursuant to the said section within the time period specified therein; 7. WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to conduct trade agreement negotiations with the foreign countries specified in the fifth recital of this proclamation 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; 8. 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 Trade 19 USC 1351. Agreements Extension Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 162, ch. 169) from June 12, 1955, until the close of June 30, 1958, as a result of the findings set forth in the fifth recital of this proclamation and for the purpose of restoring the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions in the General Agreement by the addition thereto of further concessions, I entered into the following two trade agreements, each through my duly authorized representative, copies of both of which agreements are annexed to this proclamation: (a) on June 27, 1957, a trade agreement consisting of the Agreement between the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the United States of America supplementary to the General Agreement, 8UsTpt.i,p.933. dated June 27, 1957, including a schedule, which trade agreement is authentic in the English and French languages as indicated therein, and (b) on June 27, 1957, a trade agreement consisting of the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America supplementary to the 8UsTpt.i.p.89o. General Agreement, dated June 27, 1957, including a schedule, which trade agreement is authentic in the English language; 9. WHEREAS the agreements supplementary to the General Agreement, specified in the eighth recital of this proclamation, both provide that the treatment provided for in the schedules annexed thereto shall be applied by the United States of America on and after June 29, 1957;

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