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PROCLAMATIONS — S E P T. 9, 1957

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\YHEREAS, on the basis of the said investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, I find that tung oil is being, and is practically certain to continue to be, imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the said price-support program with respect to tung nuts and tung oil, and as to reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from domestic tung nuts or tung oil with respect to which such program is being undertaken; and WHEREAS I find and declare that the imposition of the quantitative limitations on imports of tung oil hereinafter proclaimed is shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary in order that the entry of tung oil will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, the said price-support program, or reduce substantially the amount of products processed in the United States from tung nuts or tung oil; and WHEREAS I find that the quantitative limitations hereiuafter proclaimed will not reduce the permissible total quantity of tung oil which may be entered to proportionately less than 50 per centum of the average annual quantity of tung oil entered during the representative period November 1, 1952 to October 31, 1956, inclusive; and WHEREAS the allocation of the quotas among foreign supplying countries as hereinafter prescribed will assure an equitable distribution of the imports of tung oil which may be entered hereunder, based upon the proportion of imports for consumption that such foreign countries supplied during the said representative period: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President Tung oil. Import quota. of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said section 22 of the Agricultural Quantitative limitadjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim— tions. 1. That for the period commencing September 9, 1957, and ending 7 USC 624. October 31, 1958, the total quantity of tung oil entered shall not exceed 26,000,000 pounds, of which no more than 846,066 pounds shall be entered before October 1, 1957, and no more than 1,154,000 pounds shall be entered during each of the succeeding four calendar months of said period; 2. That for the 12 month period commencing November 1, 1958, and ending October 31, 1959, the total quantity of tung oil entered shall not exceed 26,000,000 pounds, of which no more than 6,500,000 pounds shall be entered during the first quarter of said period; 3. That for the 12 month period commencing November 1, 1959, and ending October 31, 1960, the total quantity of tung oil entered shall not exceed 26,000,000 pounds, of which no more than 6,500,000 pounds shall be entered during the first quarter of said period; Argentina, Paraguay 4. That of the 26,000,000 pounds of tung oil specified in paragraphs 1, and other foreign coun2, and 3, respectively, not more than 22,100,000 pounds shall be the '"es product of Argentina, nor more than 2,964,000 pounds shall be the product of Paraguay, nor more than 936,000 pounds shall be the product of other foreign countries; that of the 846,066 pounds specified in paragraph 1, not more than 719,156 pounds shall be the product of Argentina, nor more than 96,452 pounds shall be the product of Paraguay, nor more than 30,458 pounds shall be the product of other foreign countries; that of the 1,154,000 pounds specified in paragraph 1, not more than 980,900 pounds shall be the product of Argentina, nor more than 131,556 pounds shall be the product of Paraguay, nor more than 41,544 pounds shall be the product of other foreign countries; and, that of the 6,500,000 pounds specified in paragraphs 2 and 3, respectively, not more than 5,525,000 pounds shall be the product of Argentina, nor more than 741,000 pounds shall be the product of

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