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PROCLAMATIONS—DEC. 7, 1957

5. WHEREAS the said Tariff Commission has recommended that the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to the safety pins be modified to permit the apphcation to such safety pins of the increased rate of duty hereinafter proclaimed, which duty the said Tariff Commission found and reported to be necessary to remedy the serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products; 6. WHEREAS section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications of existing duties or such additional import restrictions as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350; and 7. WHEREAS, upon modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to safety pins as recommended by the Tariff Commission, it will be appropriate, to carry out the said General Agreement, to apply to the said pins the rate of duty hereinafter proclaimed: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, and in accordance with the provisions of the said General Agreement, do proclaim that, effective after the close of business on December 30, 1957 and until the President otherwise proclaims, the said item 350 in Part I of Schedule X X (Geneva-1947) shall be modified by substituting the rate " 3 5 % ad val." for the rate "22K % ad val." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 29th 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:

19 USC 1351.

Safety pins. Modification of rate of duty. 19 USC 1351, 1364.

61 Stat. A1205.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary of State.

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY,

1957

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

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS December 10, 1957, marks the ninth anniversary of the proclamation by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all nations and all peoples, and will be observed throughout the world as a time to increase understanding of that great document; and WHEREAS December 15, 1957, marks the on^ hundred and sixtysixth anniversary of the adoption of our Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS the fundamental rights and freedoms whi(li are our heritage as Americans—freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of conscience and religious worship, the right to fair trial and equal treatment under law—-are recognized by peoples throughout the world as foundations of liberty and justice; and

December 7, 1957 [No. 3213]

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