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PROCLAMATIONS, 1932. UniOOd States to the Virgin Islands is deferred from September 30, 1932, to Sepu,mber 30, 1933. IN WITNESS WHEREor, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the UniOOd States to be affixed. DONE at the City of W &abington thiR 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the UniOOd States of America. the one hundred and fifty-seventh. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: W. R . CASTLE, Jr Acting &crelary of StaJe. [No. 2006] CHAXGIXG RATES OF DUTY Ox INEDIBLE GELATIN AND GLUE BY THE PRESIDEXT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 2529 AU(1l.rt 1Q. 1m. V,'"HEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, pIa~and~~edible of the act of Congress appro.ved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), ~ble.'/Ol entitled "AN ACT To pronde revenue, to regulate commerce with Stai~ anihorta. foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United State8, to tion. protect American labor, and for other purposes," the United States Tariff Commission has investiga.ted the differences in costs of pro- duction of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with respect t{), gelatin, glue, glue size, and fish glue, not specially provided for, 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 the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said invest~ation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notic.e 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 its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Germany, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic articles and the like or similar foreign articles when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its rep Irt the changes in the rates of duty expressl,- fixed by statute found by the commission to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United dU~~':~~: States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim a decrease in the ences In costs of pro- ad valorem rate and an increase in the specific rate of the duty d'\rC:~' 46, p. fI11. expressly fixed in paragraph 41 of Title I of said act on gelatin, and amended. glue of animal origin, not specially provided for, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, from 25 per centum ad valorem and 2 cents per