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STAT.]

PROCLAMATIONS—JULY 22, 1955

treatment indicated therein as though such products were described in Part I of the said Schedule X X, with the understanding that the products will be specifically included in the said Schedule X X, and with the further understanding that the said amendments set forth in the second and third recitals of this proclamation would not, after the entry into force of the said trade agreements, conflict with obligations of the United States under the said Schedule X X, copies of which two trade agreements are annexed to this proclamation and identified as Attachments B and C, respectively; 14. WHEREAS I determine that each modification of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and each continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America which is proclaimed in Part II of this proclamation will be required or appropriate to carry out the two said trade agreements specified in the thirteenth recital of this proclamation on and after such date or dates as shall be notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury and published in the Federal Register as the date or dates of entry into force of the two said trade agreements; 15. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on October 30, 1947, he entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (61 Stat. (pt. 4) 3699), which exclusive trade agreement includes certain portions of other documents made a part thereof and provides for the treatment in respect of ordinary customs duties of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America, and by Proclamation No. 2764 of January 1, 1948 (62 Stat. 1465), he proclaimed 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 were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said exclusive trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by Proclamation 3040 of December 24, 1953 (3 CFR, 1953 Supp., p. 51), and by the proclamations referred to in the fourth recital of the said proclamation of December 24, 1953; 16. WHEREAS I determine that, on and after the effective date mentioned in the first notification by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with Part I (b)(1) of this proclamation with respect to the application of certain provisions of Part I of Schedule X X contained in Annex A to the said protocol of accession specified in the eighth recital of this proclamation, the inclusion of certain products in the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, will not be required or appropriate to carry out the said exclusive trade agreement with Cuba mentioned in the fifteenth recital of this proclamation, so that on and after the date mentioned in the said first notification by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury it will be required or appropriate that the said list, as amended and rectified, be further amended to read as follows:

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20 FE 5383. Cuba. w use 1351.

esstat. c26.

20 FR 6211.