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PROCLAMATIONS- Da. 2 , 1947 Jan. 1, 1948 each of the countries named in the 3rd recital of this proclamation will apply the general agreement provisionally on and after January 1, 1948, and the United States of America and each of said countries will then be a contracting party to the general agreement as defined in article XXXII thereof; AND WHEREAS the final sentence of said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 authorizes the President to terminate in whole or in part the proclamation carrying out any trade agreement entered into under section 350 (a); NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim that each of the proclamations listed in the 1st or the 2nd recitals of this proclamation shall not be in effect after December 31, 1947 except insofar as it relates to the termination on six months' notice of the trade agreement with respect to which it was issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State CARRYING OUT EXCLUSIVE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH CUBA OF OCTOBER 30, 1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS (1) section 350 (a) and (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the act of June 12, 1934 entitled "AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930", by the Joint Resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by section 2 of the Act of July 5, 1945, provides as follows: "Sec. 350. (a) For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American pro- duction so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the Presi- dent, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the 61 Stat., Pt. 6, p. A75. 48 Stat. 944. 19U. S.C. 1351(a). Proclamation re- specting noneffectiv- ity of designated proc- lamations. January 1, 1948 [No. 27641 48 Stat. 943; 59 Stat. 410. 19U.S. C . 1i1351 (a), (b). 62 STAT. 1465