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PROCLAMATION 3950-DEC. 24, 1969

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3. WHEREAS the Schedules of the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom annexed to the Geneva (1967) Protocol provide that the continuation of certain concessions set forth in Chapters 28 through 39 of such Schedules shall be conditional upon the elimination by the United States of the American selling price system of valuation as the basis for determining the dutiable value of certain chemicals (Sched. X L, general notes, par. 7; Sched. X IX, sec. A, pt. I, par. 6,19 U S T (pt. 3), pp. 2956, 3266,19 U S T (pt. 1), p. 788, as provided for in Part II of the Agreement Relating Principally to Chemicals Supplementary to the Geneva (1967) Protocol (H. Doc. 184, 90th Cong., 1st sess., p. 3613)); 4. WHEREAS the American selling price system of valuation will not have been so eliminated at the close of December 31, 1969; and 5. WHEREAS I have been informed that, at the close of December 31, 1969 (which will be the expiration of the period of two years commencing on January 1, 1968, the effective date of the concessions provided for in each item in Part I of Schedule X X to the Geneva (1967) Protocol listed in general note 3(f) set forth in the second recital of this proclamation), the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom will not continue beyond the second stage all the concessions in Chapters 28 through 39 of their respective Schedules annexed to the Geneva (1967) Protocol; NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including but not limited to Section 201 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and in accordance with general note 3(f) to Schedule X X to the Geneva (1967) Protocol and the note implementing it at the end of Annex III to the Proclamation of December 16, 1967, do proclaim that: (1) upon the expiration of December 31, 1969, the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom will not continue beyond the second stage all the concessions in Chapters 28 through 39 of their respective Schedules to the Geneva (1967) Protocol, and, as a result thereof, (2) the rate of duty set forth opposite the number of each item of the Tariff Schedules of the United States listed in the Annex to this proclamation (which is the second stage of the concession provided for in Schedule X X and the rate in the 1969 column in Annex III to the proclamation of December 16, 1967) shall, on and after January 1, 1970, continue in effect in column numbered 1 of each such item unless and until the President proclaims that the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom have agreed to proceed with the future reductions for all the chemical concessions provided for in Chapters 28 through 39 of their Schedules. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixtynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

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