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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 28, 1957
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D O N E at the City of Washington this 27th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,
Secretary of State.
CARRYING O U T THE E I G H T H PROTOCOL OF SUPPLEMENTARY C O N CESSIONS TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON T A R I F F S AND TRADE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA
June 28, 1957 [No. 3190]
A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as then amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat. (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269), the President on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement"), including a schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as "Schedule X X (Geneva—1947)"), and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement, together with a Final Act (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, A l l, and A2051); 2. WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by the other proclamations listed in the third recital of Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 24), by the said proclamation of June 13, 1956, by Proclamation No. 3143 of June 25, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 33), by Proclamation No. 3146 of June 29, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 35), by Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 SUPP., p. 44), and by Proclamation No. 3184 of May 16, 1957 (22 F. R. 3531); 3. WHEREAS I have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and of the Republic of Cuba, both being contracting parties to the General Agreement, are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purposes declared in section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as now amended (48 Stat. (pt. 1) 943, ch. 474, 57 Stat. (pt. 1) 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. (pt. 1) 410, ch. 269, 63 Stat. (pt 1) 698, ch. 585, 69 Stat. 162, ch. 169), will be promoted by the negotiation between these two Governm.ents of a trade agreement supplementing the General Agreement; i. WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 72, ch. 141), I transmitted to the United States Tariff Commission for investigation and report a list of all articles imported into the United States of America to be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions.
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