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56 STAT.] ARGENTINA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-OCT. 14, 1941 WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the said Agreement, the Schedules thereunto annexed and the said notes, are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; WHEREAS it is provided in Article XVII of the said Agreement that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by the Government of the Argentine Republic, and that it shall enter definitively into force thirty days after the exchange of the instrument of ratification and the proclamation; AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article XVIII of the said Agreement that, pending the definitive coming into force of the Agreement, the provisions thereof shall be applied provisionally on and after November 15, 1941, subject to a right to terminate the provisional application of the Agreement pursuant to the provisions of para- graph 1 of Article XII or upon six months' written notice; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement, including the said Schedules and notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, provisionally on and after November 15, 1941, and definitively thirty days after the exchange of this proclamation and the instru- ment of ratification of the Government of the Argentine Republic as provided for in Article XVII of the said Agreement. PURSUANT to the proviso in Section 350(a)(2) of the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, I shall from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties and other import restrictions herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the [SEAL] one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. Ante, p. 1700. Ante, p. 1701. Ante, p. 1696. 46 Stat. 590. 19U. . c. §1001- 1654; Supp. I, ch. 4; ante, p. 283. Ante, p. 1700. 48 Stat. 943. 19U..C.. 1351 (a) (2).