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PROCLAMATIONS—NOV. 20, 1957

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STAT.

DONE at the City of Washington this 9th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER

DULLES,

Secretary of State.

MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT OF R A T E o r D U T Y ON SAFETY P I N S November 29, 1957 [No. 3212]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

• Stat. 165.

61 Stat. A1205.

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), on October 30, 1947 he entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement oh Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (Parts 5 and 6) A7, A11, and A2051); 2. WHEREAS item 350 in Part I of Schedule X X (Geneva-1947) annexed to and made a part of the said General Agreement reads in pertinent part as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph

350

Description of Products

Rate of duty

Pins with solid heads, without ornamentation, inckiding hair, safety, hat, bonnet, and shawl pins; and brass, copper, iron, steel, or other base metal pins, with heads of glass, paste, or fusible enamel; all the foregoing not plated with gold or silver, and not commonly known as jewelry: Safety pins 22>^% ad val.

3. WHEREAS, in accordance with Article II of the said General Agreement and by virtue of Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), the United States rate of duty applicable to safety pins described in the said item 350 is 22)^ per centum ad valorem, as specified in the said item 350, which duty reflects the tariff concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to such product; 4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its investigation No. 53 under section 7 of the Trade ^^5 Stat. 74; 69 Stat. Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1364), on the basis of which investigation, including a hearing held in connection therewith, the Commission has found that as a result in part of the duty reflecting the concession granted in the sard General Agreement 61 Stat. A1205. safety pins described in the said item 350 are being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products;

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