PROCLAMATIONS-JAN. 1, 1948 1475 conditions set forth in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) below, such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America in respect of products of the Republic of Cuba and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America as are specified or provided for in said exclusive trade agreement of October 30, 1947, in said provisions of the general agree- 61 Stat. , Pt. 4, ment to the extent that they are made a part of said exclusive trade p'3 agreement: (a) The rates of duty and import tax specified in the column at the right of the respective descriptions of products in part II of schedule XX of said general agreement shall be applied, subject to the appli- 61 Stat. Pt. 5, cable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth in that schedule p Al0 and said other provisions of the general agreement made a part of said exclusive trade agreement of October 30, 1947, to all products of 61 Stat. , Pt. 4, the Republic of Cuba of the kinds provided for in the said descriptions; p 3 69 (b) The rates of duty and import tax specified in the column at the right of the respective descriptions of products listed in the 8th and 9th recitals of this proclamation shall be applied, subject to the appli- Ante, pp . 1467, 1468. cable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth therein, respec- tively, to the products of the Republic of Cuba of the kinds provided for in said descriptions so long as such rates are listed in said recitals; (c) The rates of duty and import tax applicable to articles which are products of the Republic of Cuba not provided for in subdivision (a) or (b) above at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of such articles shall be the rates then applicable to articles of the same class or kind the product of countries, other than the Republic of Cuba, that are contracting parties to said general agreement in accordance with article XXXII thereof; 61Stat. , Pt. 5,p.A75. (d) The provisions of subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) shall not apply Post, p. 1617 . to a particular article by virtue of this proclamation if, when the arti- cles is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, more favorable customs treatment is prescribed therefor by a statute, proclamation, or executive order then in effect; and (e) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed as authorizing the application of any rate of duty or import tax computed on the basis of any provision of numbered paragraph 2 of said exclusive trade 61 Stat., Pt. 4, agreement, of article I of said general agreement, or of said article 17 6Pista., Pt. 5,p.A 2. of the draft charter, except such rates as are proclaimed pursuant to the Antr,'p- 1467, foot. provisions of said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended; 48 tat. 43. AND I do further proclaim (a) that each of the proclamations 19 U-S. . - 1351- specified in the 12th, 13th, and 14th recitals of this proclamation shall An t e p. 1474. not be in effect after December 31, 1947 except insofar as it may re- late to the termination on six months' notice of any of the exclusive trade agreements specified in said recitals, and (b) that said Conven- tion of Commercial Reciprocity, except such part thereof as relates to its termination on one year's notice, and the exchanges of notes referred to in the 15th recital of this proclamation as accompanying the exclusive trade agreements specified in the 12th and 13th recitals thereof shall become inoperative on January 1, 1948. 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 first day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight and of [SEAL] 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 62 STAT.]
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