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 PROCLAMATIONS MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSIONS AND IMPOSITION OF QUOTAS ON UNMANUFACTURED LEAD AND ZINC BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

September 22 1958 [No. 3257]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), the President, on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with foreign countries, which consists of the General Agreement on 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) A 7, A 11, and A 2051), and, by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (Part 2) 1103), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out that agreement on and after January 1, 1948; 2. WHEREAS, pursuant to the said authority, the President, on April 21, 1951, entered into a trade agreement consisting of the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including the annexes thereto (3 UST (Part 1) 588), and, by Proclamation No. 2929 of June 2, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 Supp., p. 27), proclaimed such modification of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out that agreement on and after June 6, 1951, which proclamation has been supplemented by several notifications of the President to the Secretary of the Treasury, including a notification dated June 2, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 Supp., p. 530); 3. WHEREAS the second item 394 in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the agreement referred to in the first recital of this proclamation (61 Stat. (Part 5) A 1219) reads as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, Paragraph 394

Description of Products Old and worn-out zinc, fit only to be remanufactured, zinc dross, and zinc skimmings.

Rate of duty %^ per lb.

4. WHEREAS item 391, the first item 392, item 393, and item 394 in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the trade agreement referred c3

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