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PROCLAMATION 3953-DEC. 31, 1969

[84 STAT.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the month of January 1970 as National Blood Donor Month. I call upon the public media, the blood-banking and medical and health facilities of our country, and the public at large to pay special tribute and honor during that month to the voluntary blood donor and to encourage, by all appropriate means, increasing numbers of people to be voluntary blood donors. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

(JijU--7C::^ Proclamation 3953 PARTIAL EXTENSION OF INCREASED DUTY ON IMPORTS OF CARPETS AND RUGS December 31, 1969

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

65 Stat. 74. 19 USC 1364 note.

19 USC note prec. 1202.

76 Stat. 1452. 77A Stat. 436; 82 Stat. 1485. 19 USC 1202. 76 Stat. 899. 19 USC 1981. 19 USC 1202 note.

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 and in accordance with Article X IX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), the President by Proclamation No. 3454 of March 19, 1962 (76 Stat. 1452), as modified by Proclamation No. 3458 of March 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 1457), proclaimed, effective after the close of business June 17, 1962, and until the President otherwise proclaimed, an increased duty on imports of certain carpets and rugs and other floor coverings; 2. WHEREAS, after compliance with the requirements of Section 102 of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 73), the President by Proclamation No. 3548 of August 21, 1963 (77 Stat. 1017), proclaimed, effective on and after August 31, 1963, the Tariff Schedules of the United States, which reflected, with modifications, and, in effect, superseded, Proclamation No. 3454 by providing for the increased duty on imports of such floor coverings in item 922.50 in Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States; 3. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 351(c)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and in accordance with Article X IX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the President, by Proclamation No. 3815 of October 11, 1967 (81 Stat. 1138), extended the increased rates of duty on imports of floor coverings provided for in item 922.50 in Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to the close of December 31, 1969; 4. WHEREAS the increased duty on imports of floor coverings provided for in item 922.50 will terminate at the close of December 31, 1969, in accordance with Section 351(c)(1)(B) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, unless extended under Section 351(c)(2) of that Act;

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