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PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 16, 1952
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8. WHEREAS, upon the modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement as supplemented by the Torquay schedule with respect to dried figs described in the said item 740 in accordance with the recommendation of the Tariff Commission mentioned in the 6th recital of this proclamation, it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement as supplemented by the Torquay schedule to apply to the said dried figs the rate of duty specified in the said 6th recital: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the Sodfa&n of existUnited States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by ing duties. section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) js Stat. W3. of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance 65 Stat. 74. with the provisions of Article X IX of the said General Agreement, do eistat^iss^" proclaim— (a) That the provisions of item 740 of Part I of the Torquay schedule shall be modified, effective a t the close of business August 29, 1952, so as to read as follows: Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph
740
Description of Products
Figs: Fresh or in brine Dried
Rate of duty
2%^ per lb. 4)^^ per lb.
(b) That, until the President otherwise proclaims, the rates of duty specified in such modified item 740, as set forth in paragraph (a) above, shall be applied to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the close of business August 29, 1952. The said Proclamation No. 2929 is modified accordingly. So long as ^^ ^*^^- '^'*this proclamation remains in force, the provisions of Proclamation No. 2867 of December 22, 1949 (3 CFR, 1949 SUPP., 55; T D 52373) and Proclamation No. 2874 of March 1, 1950 (3 CFR, 1950 SUPP., 21; T D wstat. ASSO, A39O. 52423), insofar as they provide for carrying out United States obligations with respect to the rate of duty on dried figs described in item 740 of Part I of Schedule X X in Annex A of the Annecy Protocol of Terms of Accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m y hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E a t the City of Washington this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of Amexica the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DAVID BRUCE
Acting Secretary of State
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