Proclamation 3703—Termination of Increased Duty on Imports of Safety Pins

1. Whereas, pursuant to Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the President, on October 30, 1947, entered into, and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), and Proclamation No. 2782 of April 22, 1948 (62 Stat. (pt. 2) 1500), proclaimed, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) All; hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement"), including a concession with respect to certain types of safety pins provided for in item 350 in Part I to Schedule XX of the General Agreement (61 Stat. (pt. 5) Al205) ;

2. Whereas, pursuant to Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the General Agreement (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), the President by Proclamation No. 3212 of November 29, 1957 (72 Stat. (pt. 2) c16), proclaimed, effective after the close of business on December 30, 1957, and until the President otherwise proclaimed, a modification of the concession with respect to the types of safety pins identified in the first recital of this proclamation to effect an increase in the rate of duty with respect to such safety pins;

3. Whereas, after compliance with the requirements of Section 102 of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 73), the President by Proclamation No. 3548 of August 21, 1963 (77 Stat. 1017), proclaimed, effective on and after August 31, 1963, the Tariff Schedules of the United States, which reflected, with modifications, and, in effect, superseded (1) the provisions of Proclamations Nos. 2761A and 2782 insofar as those proclamations proclaimed the concession with respect to the types of safety pins identified in the first recital of this proclamation (see item 745.56 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States), and (2) the provisions of Proclamation No. 3212 (see item 943.10 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States);

4. Whereas, following my request under Section 351 (d) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1981(d) (2)), the United States Tariff Commission conducted an investigation, including a hearing, pursuant to Section 351(d) (5) of that Act (19 U.S.C. 1981(d) (5)), and on May 17, 1965, submitted to me a report (30 F.R. 6891) advising me of its judgment as to the probable economic effect on the domestic industry concerned of the reduction or termination of the increased rate of duty effected by Proclamation No. 3212 (now reflected, with modifications, in item 943.10 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States) ;

5. Whereas, in relation to the possible reduction or termination of such increased rate of duty, I have received and taken into account the advice from the Tariff Commission, advice of the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor in accordance with Section 351(c) (1) (A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1981(c) (1) (A)), recommendations of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations in accordance with Sections 3(b), 3(j), and 5(c) of Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (48 CFR 1.3 (b), 1.3(j), and 1.5(c)), and advice of other interested agencies of the Government; and

6. Whereas, in accordance with Section 351(c) (1) (A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, I have determined that the termination, as herein proclaimed, of the increased rate of duty effected by Proclamation No. 3212 (now reflected, with modifications, in item 943.10 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States) is in the national interest:

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 351(c) (1) (A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the General Agreement, do proclaim that:

(1) Proclamation No. 3212 is terminated.

(2) Item 943.10 (reflecting, with modifications, Proclamation No. 3212 which effected the increased rate of duty) is deleted from the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States.

(3) The concession with respect to the types of safety pins identified in the first recital of this proclamation shall be applied to such of those articles as are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of this proclamation, in accordance with the provisions of item 745.56 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States.

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 twenty-eighth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President:

Secretary of State