PROCLAMATIO~8, 1929. Increases in l'.aid dutie!'; on Cast polished plate glp.ss, finished or unfinished, and unsilvered, not exceeding three hundred and eighty- four square inches, from 12% cents per square foot to 16 cents per squal'e foot; above that, and not exceeding seven hundred and twenty square inches, from 15 cents per square foot to 19 cents per square foot; all above that, from 17Yz cents per square foot to 22 cents per square foot. In witness whereof I haye hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at, the city of Washington this seventeenth day of January in ~he year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL} twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-t hird. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLA..\1ATION 2987 Rates. Janllary 19, IC29. Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of Title III of the act of Congress Tariff on p~anuts. . d . \01.42.1' . 941. approved September 21, 1922, entItle "An act to prOVIde revenue, . i 'tntutory authorlz.~· to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the indus- tlOn. trics of the United States, and for other purposes," it is, among other things, provided Lhat whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product vf the United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign coun- tries, shall find it thereby shown that the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United States and the principal competing country he shall, by such investi- gation, ascertam said differences and determine and proclaim the changes in classifications or increases or decreases in rates of duty provided in said act shown by said ascertained differences in such cost" of production necessary to equalize the same; Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided Vol. 42 , p . 942. that in ascertaining the difference~ in. costs of production, under the provisions of subdivisions (a) B,nd '(b) of said section, the President, ill so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production of such or similar articles in the United States and in competing foreign countries; (2) the differences in tht wholesale selling prices of domestic and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3) advantages granted to a 10reign producer by a forei~n government, or by a per- son, partnership, corporation, or associatIOn in a foreign country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competition; Whereas, under and by virtue of said section of .said act, the United States Tariff -Commission has made an investigation to assist the President in ascertaining the differences in costs of prod~lction of and of all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to the articles descri.bed in paragraph 757 of Title I of said Yol. 4 ", p. 895, tariff act of 1922, namely, peanuts, not shelled, and peanuts, shelled, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in: part the growth or product of competing foreign countries;
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