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Proclamation 2798—Supplementing Proclamations of December 16, 1947 and January 1, 1948, Carrying Out General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Exclusive Trade Agreement with Cuba, Respectively

July 15, 1948


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the Act of June 12, 1934, by the Joint Resolution approved June 7, 1943, and by sections 2 and 3 of the Act of July 5, 1945 (48 Stat. 943 and 944, ch. 474, 57 Stat. 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. 410 and 411, ch. 269; 19 U.S.C. (1946) 1351), the period for the exercise of said authority having been extended by section 1 of said Act of July 5, 1945 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1945 (48 Stat. 944, ch. 474, 59 Stat. 410, ch. 269; 19 U.S.C. (1946) 1352(c)), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, the Republic of Chile, the republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Czechoslovak Republic, the French Republic, India, Lebanon, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Norway, Pakistan, Southern Rhodesia, Syria, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and northern Ireland, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which authenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol;

Whereas, on December 16, 1947 by Proclamation 2761A 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 said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948 (12 F.R. 8866), which proclamation has been supplemented by proclamation 2769 of January 30, 1948 (13 F.R. 467), Proclamation 2782 of April 22, 1948 (13 F.R. 2211), Proclamation 2784 of may 4, 1948 (13 F.R. 2439), Proclamation 2790 of June 11, 1948 (13 F.R. 3269), Proclamation 2791 of June 12, 1948 (13 F.R. 3272), and Proclamation 2792 of June 25, 1948 (13 F.R. 3597);

Whereas, pursuant to the authority conferred by said section 350, the period for the exercise of said authority having been so extended, on October 30, 1947 the President entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (T.D. 51819 (Customs)), which exclusive trade agreement includes certain portions of other documents made a part thereof and provides for the customs treatment in respect of ordinary customs duties of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America;

Whereas, on January 1, 1948 by Proclamation 2764 the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America in respect of products of the Republic of Cuba and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out said exclusive trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948 (13 F.R. 21), which proclamation has been supplemented by said proclamations of January 30, 1948, April 22, 1948, May 4, 1948, June 11, 1948, and June 25, 1948;

Whereas, said protocol of provisional application has been signed (a) by the Governments of Burma, Ceylon, and Lebanon on June 29, 1948 with the result that said Governments will be contracting parties to said general agreement on July 30, 1948, and (b) by the Governments of the United States of Brazil, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Syria on June 30, 1948 and said Governments will be such contracting parties on July 31, 1948;

Whereas, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, determine that the application of each of the concessions provided for in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement which were withheld from application in accordance with article XXVII of said general agreement y said proclamation of December 16, 1947 as are identified in the following list is required or appropriate to carry out, on and after the date set forth following the identification of each such concession, said trade agreement specified in the 1st recital of this proclamation:

And Whereas, I determine that, in view of the determination set forth in the 6th recital of this proclamation, the following amendments of the list set forth in the 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, are required or appropriate to carry out said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 3rd recital of this proclamation:

(a) The deletion, on and after July 30, 1948, of item 758 in said 9th recital; and

(b) The deletion, on and after July 31, 1948, of item 762 in said 9th recital;

Now, Therefore, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority of said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as so amended, do proclaim:

PART I

To the end that said trade agreement specified in the 1st recital of this proclamation may be carried out, that each of the concessions provided for in part I of said schedule XX which are identified in the 6th recital of this proclamation shall, on and after the date set forth following the identification of each such concession, no longer be identified in the 8th recital of said proclamation of December 16, 1947, and on and after said date the rate of duty representing each such concession identified in said 6th recital of this proclamation shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth in said schedule XX, and parts I, II, and III, of said general agreement, and in subdivision (a), other than exception (I) thereof, of said proclamation of December 16, 1947, including any amendments and rectifications of said agreement and said proclamation which have been proclaimed by the President, to articles of a kind provided for in the description of products in the column at the left of said rate; and

PART II

To the end that said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 3rd recital of this proclamation may be carried out, that the list set forth in the 9th recital of said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, shall be further amended in the manner, and on and after the respective dates, indicated in the 7th recital of this proclamation.

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 15th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third.

Signature of Harry S. Truman

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

G. C. MARSHALL,

Secretary of State.

Harry S Truman, Proclamation 2798—Supplementing Proclamations of December 16, 1947 and January 1, 1948, Carrying Out General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Exclusive Trade Agreement with Cuba, Respectively Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287256

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