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[84 STAT. 2217]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 2217]

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PROCLAMATION 3967-FEB. 27, 1970

of which investigation and a hearing duly held in connection therewith the members of said Commission divided, with respect to sheet glass, into two groups composed of an equal number of Commissioners, one group being unanimously agreed that sheet glass is, as a result in major part of concessions granted under trade agreements, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles; and the other group being unanimously agreed that sheet glass is not, as a result in major part of concessions granted under trade agreements, being imported into the United States in such increased c[uantities as to cause, or threaten to cause, serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles; 8. WHEREAS under the authority of section 330(d)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1330(d)(1)), I consider the affirmative finding of the first group of Commissioners as the finding of the Tariff Commission with respect to injury; and 9. WHEREAS I have determined that the rates of duty hereinafter proclaimed are, when coupled with adjustment assistance hereinafter provided, necessary to remedy serious injury to the sheet glass industry: NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including sections 201(a)(2), 302(a) (2) and (3), and 351(a)(1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821(a)(2), 19 U.S.C. 1902(a)(2) and (3), and 1981(a)(1)), and in accordance with Article X IX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, do proclaim that— 1. The tariff concessions on sheet glass in Part I of Schedule X X to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade shall continue to be modified in part as provided for in paragraph 2 below; 2. Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period commencing on the date of this proclamation and terminating at the close of January 31, 1974, so much of Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the T S U S as follows item 922.50 and precedes item 924.00 is modified to read as set out in the annex to this proclamation; and 3. Provision is hereby made, with respect to the sheet glass industry, that: (a) its firms may request the Secretary of Commerce for certifications of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title III of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; and (b) its workers may request the Secretary of Labor for certifications of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 3 of Title III of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

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