Executive Order 10170—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10082 of October 5, 1949 Prescribing Procedures for the Administration of the Reciprocal Trade-Agreements Program

WHEREAS Executive Order No. 10082 of October 5, 1949 (14 F.R. 6105) establishes the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements and the Committee for Reciprocity Information, each to consist of persons designated from their respective agencies by the Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator for Economic Cooperation; and

WHEREAS it would be in the public interest to provide for the representation on said committees of the Department of the Interior:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, including section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat.698) and the Trade Agreements Act approved June 12, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 943; 57 Stat.125; 59 Stat. 410; Public Law 307, 81st Congress), the said Executive Order No. 10082 of October 5, 1949 is hereby amended by adding after the comma following the word "Defense," in the second sentence of the paragraph numbered 1 thereof, the words "the Secretary of the Interior.".

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 12, 1950