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IRAN-RECIPROCAL TRADE-APR . 8 , 1943 WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treat- ment 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; AND WHEREAs it is provided in Article XIV of the said agreement that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by the National Assembly (Majlis) of Iran, and that it shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the exchange of the proclamation and the instrument of ratification; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, acting under the authority con- ferred by the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim the said trade agreement, including the said schedules and notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof on and after the thirtieth day following the exchange of this my proclamation and the instru- ment of ratification of Iran as provided for in Article XIV. Following the said exchange of this proclamation and the instru- ment of ratification of Iran, I shall proclaim the date on and after which the said agreement, including the said schedules and notes, shall enter into force. IN TESTIMONY WHEEOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DoNE in Washington this thirty-first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State Ante, p. 1328. Proclamation. 48 Stat. 943. 19 U.S.C. l51 (a); Supp. III , 51351(a). Ante, p. 1328. 58 STAT.] 1355