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PROCLAMATION 3744-SEPT. 13, 1966

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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. DONE at the City of Washington this eighth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3744 PROCLAMATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN PROVIDING COMPENSATORY CONCESSIONS By the President of the United States of America

September 13, 1966

A Proclamation

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, ^^ ^sc usi. the President, on October 30, 1947, entered into, and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), proclaimed, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement"), including a schedule of United States ^^ ^*^*- <^P*- ^^ f^ concessions, designated as Schedule X X, annexed thereto (61 Stat, (pt. 5) A1157), which Agreement, schedule, and proclamation have been supplemented by subsequent agreements, schedules, and proclamations; 2. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No. 3235 of April 21, 1958 (72 Stat. (pt. 2) C35) and by Proclamation No. 3323 of October 20, 1959 (74 Stat. C15), the President proclaimed increased rates of duty, pursuant to section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 19 (65 Stat. 74; 67 Stat. 472; 69 Stat. 166; 72 Stat. 676) and in accordance note. u s e 1364 with Article X IX of the General Agreement (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), with respect to certain clinical thermometers and to certain stainless-steel flatware, respectively, and, by Proclamation No. 3513 of December 28, 1962 (77 Stat. 970) the President proclaimed concessions compensatory for such increased rates of duty, subject to the qualification that if Proclamation No. 3235 or Proclamation No. 3323 should be modified or terminated so as to result in a lowering of the increased rates of duty provided for therein, the United States and J a p a n would enter into negotiations or consultations with a view to reaching a mutually satisfactory adjustment of the balance of concessions under the General Agreement (13 U.S.T. (pt.3)3194); 3. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No. 3696 of January 7, 1966 (31 F.R. 421), the President terminated Proclamation No. 3235 and, by Proclamation No. 3697 of January 7, 1966 (31 F.R. 423), terminated j ^ ^ ' ^ ' PP- ^^^2, Proclamation No. 3323, thereby terminating the increased rates of duty with respect to the clinical thermometers and reducing the increased rates of duty with respect to the stainless-steel flatware, respectively, identified in the second recital of this proclamation;

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