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2460 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 'VHEREAS in the course of said inves~ation a hearing was held, of which rea.sone.ble public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and ita findings with respect to such differences in costs of prOOuction; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Italy, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the difference in the costs of production of the domestic article and the like or similar foreign article when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increase in the rate of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference i and WHEREAS in the Judgment of the PresIdent such rate of duty is shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production; eq!:ik~~::~ ~ Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United ~!Slo~~on. States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim an incu~ase in the o. ,p. rate of duty expressly fixed in paragrapli 1005(1.)(3) of Title I of said act on cordage, mcluding cables, tarred or untarred, composed of three or more strands, each strand composed of two or more yarns, wholly or in chief value of hemp, from 3* cents per pound to 4% cents per poundr the rate found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary (WIthin the limit of total increase provided for in said act) to equalize such difference in costs of production. JODe 24, 1931. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand a.nd ca.used the s~ of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of W asbington this 24" day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the Indepen- [SEAL] dence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1955] INCREASING RATE OF DuTY ON DRIED WHOLE EGGS, DRIED EGG YOLK, AND DRIED EGG ALBUMEN BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ~arItf~f8fP· WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title JII, Part II, s=~· anthorua- of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 701), entitled tio\~Oi. 4G, p. 701. "An act to provide reve~ue, to ~gulate comm.erce with foreign coun- tries, to encourage the mdustries of the Umted States, to protect American labor, and for other p~," the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect to, dried whole eggs, dried egg yolk, and dried egg albumen, whether or not sugar or other materi81 is added, being wholly or in part the growth or p'roduct of the United States and of and with respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or prod- uct of the principal competing country;