Jan. 30, 1948 PROCLAMATIONS-Feb. 18 , 1948 [62 STAT. as if said products had been listed in said 8th recital of the proclama- Post,p. 1518 tion of January 1, 1948, except that no such rate shall be applied to a particular article by virtue of this proclamation if, when the article is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, more favorable customs treatment is prescribed for the article by a statute, proclamation, or Executive order then in effect; (b) That the first item 506 and item 752 shall be deleted from the Ante, p. 1470. list set forth in the 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948; (c) That the figure and word "4/5 of" shall be deleted from the rate of duty specified in the second item 506 in the 9th recital of said Ante, p . 1470. proclamation of January 1, 1948; and (d) That the item number of item 1527 (a) (2) in said 9th recital of Ante, p. 1472; pot, the proclamation of January 1, 1948 shall be changed to "1527 (c) (2)", p.13 . the words and figure "parts of articles valued above $5 per dozen pieces and other" shall be inserted after the word "except" in the description of products in said item, a final parenthesis shall be placed after the last word in said description of products, and the rate in said item shall be changed to "88% ad val."; PART III AND I do further proclaim, acting under the authority of said section 350 to the end that said trade agreement specified in the 1st recital of this proclamation and said exclusive trade agreement spec- ified in the 3rd recital hereof may be carried out, that no modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America, and no continuance of existing customs or excise treat- ment of articles imported into the United States of America, pro- claimed to carry out said trade agreement specified in the 1st recital shall be construed as providing for the preferential customs treatment, in respect of rates of ordinary customs duty, of products of the Republic of Cuba. 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 30th 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: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State RED CROSS MONTH, 1948 February 18. 1948 [No. 2770] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American National Red Cross, in accordance with the provisions of its federal charter, continues to give succor to vic- tims of disaster, to render special services to our armed forces, and in many other ways to contribute to the health, safety, and welfare of our people; and WHEREAS in 1947 the Red Cross expended a sum in excess of $11,000,000 on account of disasters alone, aiding the victims of the greatest number of calamities in any single year of the organization's history; and 1488 48 Stat. 943. 19 U. .. §1351. Ante, pp. 1479, 1480.
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