Proclamation 3596—Proclamation of Agreements with Paraguay and the United Arab Republic Relating to Trade Agreements and of the Termination in Part of a Trade Agreement Proclamation Relating to Paraguay

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I - PURPOSES

PART II - IDENTIFICATION AND JUSTIFICATION

(A) Paraguay Agreements Supplementary to Bilateral Agreement

(1) Identification

(2) Determination

(B) Paraguay Partial Termination of Proclamation

(1) Identification

(C) United Arab Republic - Agreement Supplementary to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

(1) Identification

(2) Determination

PART III - PROCLAIMING PART

(A) Paraguay - Agreements Supplementary to Bilateral Agreement

(B) Paraguay - Partial Termination of Proclamation

(C) United Arab Republic - Agreement Supplementary to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

PART I - PURPOSES

The purposes of this proclamation are:

(a) Paraguay - To proclaim portions of two agreements with Paraguay, amending the bilateral trade agreement with Paraguay, which contain no new tariff concessions by the United States but under which Paraguay may participate in the Latin American Free Trade Association without violating the bilateral trade agreement.

(b) Paraguay - To proclaim the termination of those portions of the trade agreement proclamation relating to the bilateral trade agreement with Paraguay which concern the schedules of tariff concessions contained in that agreement.

(c) United Arab Republic - To proclaim an agreement for the provisional accession of the United Arab Republic to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade involving the application of the general provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade but no tariff concessions.

PART II - IDENTIFICATION AND JUSTICIFCATION

A. Paraguay Agreements Supplementary to Bilateral Agreement

1.Identification - Numbered paragraphs 2 and 3 of the agreement of April 2, 1962 (TIAS 5000), and unnumbered paragraph 3 of the agreement of June 26, 1963 (TIAS 5390), between the United States and Paraguay, relate to modify the application of the general provisions of the trade agreement of September 12, 1946, between the two countries (61 Stat. (pt. 3) 2689).¹

2.Determination - I have determined that it is required or appropriate (A) on and after April 2, 1962, that the trade agreement with Paraguay of September 12, 1946, shall be applied as supplemented by numbered paragraphs 2 and 3 of the agreement of April 2, 1962, and (B) on and after June 26, 1963, that that trade agreement shall be applied as further supplemented by unnumbered paragraph 3 of the agreement of June 26, 1963.

B. Paraguay - Partial Termination of Proclamation

1. Identification - The proclamation of March 10, 1947, proclaimed the trade agreement of September 12, 1946, between the United States and Paraguay, as supplemented by an exchange of notes of September 12, 1946, relating to duties and surcharges on certain products in Schedule I of the trace agreement. Unnumbered paragraph 1 of the agreement of June 26, 1963, between the United States and Paraguay, terminated, effective June 30, 1963, Articles VII through XII, the references in Article XVII to Articles XI and XII, and Schedules I and II of that trade agreement of September 12, 1946. Unnumbered pararaph 2 of the same agreement of June 26, 1963, terminated the supplementary exchange of notes of September 12, 1946.

C. United Arab Republic - Agreement Supplementary to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

1. Identification - The Declaration of November 13, 1962, on the Provisional Accession of the United Arab Republic to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade² became effective for the United States on May 3, 1963 (TIAS 5309).

2. Determination - I have determined that it is required or appropriate, on and after May 3, 1963, that those provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and agreements supplementary thereto which have heretofore been proclaimed shall be applied as supplemented by the Declaration of November 13, 1962, regarding the United Arab Republic.

PART III - PROCLAIMING PART

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including Section 350(a) (6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351(a) (6)), do hereby proclaim that:

A. Paraguay - Agreements Supplementary to Bilateral Agreement

On and after April 2, 1962, the trade agreement between the United States and Paraguay, described in Part II (A) (1) of this proclamation, shall be applied as supplemented by paragraphs 2 and 3 of the agreement of April 2, 1963, and on and after June 26, 1963, that trade agreement shall be applied as further supplemented by unnumbered paragraph 3 of the agreement of June 26, 1963.

B. Paraguay - Partial Termination of Proclamation

On and after June 30, 1963, the Proclamation of March 10, 1947, proclaiming the trade agreement between the United States and Paraguay, as supplemented, shall be terminated insofar as it relates to those provisions, described in Part II (B) (1) of this proclamation, which were terminated by the provisions of the agreement of Juice 26, 1963, described in Part II (B) (1).

C. United Arab Republic - Agreement Supplementary to General Agreement on Tariff s and Trade

On and after May 3, 1963, those provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as supplemented, described in Part II (C) (1) of this proclamation, shall be applied as supplemented by the Declaration on the Provisional Accession of the United Arab Republic, described in Part II (C) (1).

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, sixth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President:

GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.