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PROCLAMATION 3455-MAR. 19, 1962

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(b) the provisions of item 1117(a) in Part I of Schedule XX-1956, as modified by (a) above, shall be applied and all inconsistent provisions of proclamations of the President heretofore issued under the authority of section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930 are suspended. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3455 MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSIONS AND ADJUSTMENT OF DUTIES ON CYLINDER, CROWN, AND SHEET GLASS March 19, 1962

By the President of the United States of America 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), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a schedule of United States concessions, and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a 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. (Pts. 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2051), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (Pt. 2) 1103) he 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, which proclamation has been supplemented by several subsequent proclamations;

19 USC 1001, par. 219.

2. WHEREAS the said General Agreement has been supplemented by several subsequent agreements, including the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of May 23, 1956 (7 U S T (Pt. 2) 1086), and Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (70 Stat. C33), 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 the said agreements on and after June 30, 1956; 3. WHEREAS the trade agreement specified in the second recital of this proclamation included a supplementary schedule of United States concessions, hereinafter referred.to as "Schedule XX-1956"; 4. WHEREAS the prevailing United States tariff concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as supplemented, with respect to the duties that may be imposed under paragraph 219 of the Tariff Act of 1930 on cylinder,, crown, and sheet glass are included in " ^

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