Proclamation 2874—Supplementing Proclamations No. 2867 of December 22, 1949, and No. 2764 of January 1, 1948, Relating to Trade Agreements

1. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including 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, by sections 2 and 3 of the act of July 5, 1945 (ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943, ch. 118., 57 Stat. 125, ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410 and 411), and by sections 4 and 6 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949 (Public Law 307, 81st Congress), the period for the exercise of the said authority having been extended by section 3 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1948, on October 10, 1949, I entered into a trade agreement providing for the accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1700) of the Governments of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Dominican Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Greece, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of Italy, the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, which trade agreement for accession consists of the Annecy Protocol of Terms of Accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 10, 1949, including the annexes thereto (Dept. of State Publ. 2664);

2. Whereas by Proclamation 2867 of December 22, 1949 (14 F.R. 7723), I proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and the 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 the said trade agreement for accession on and after January 1, 1950;

3. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the acts specified in the first recital of this proclamation except the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949, the period for the exercise of the authority under the said section 350 having been extended by section 1 of the said act of July 5, 1945 (ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410), until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1945, on October 30, 1947, I entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba (Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1703), 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;

4. Whereas by Proclamation No. 2764 of January 1, 1948 (3 CFR, 1948 Supp., p. 11), I 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 the said exclusive trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by the said proclamation of December 22, 1949, and by the supplemental proclamations referred to in the fourth recital of the said proclamation of December 22, 1949;

5. Whereas, the trade agreement for accession specified in the first recital of this proclamation has been signed by the Government of the Kingdom of Greece under such circumstances that it will enter into force for such Government, and such Government will become a contracting party to the said general agreement, on march 9, 1950;

6. Whereas I determine that the application of each of the concessions provided for in Part I of Schedule XX in Annex A of the said trade agreement for accession which were withheld from application in accordance with paragraph 4 of the said trade agreement for accession by the said proclamation of December 22, 1949, as are identified in the following list is required or appropriate to carry out, on and after March 9, 1950, the said trade agreement for accession:

Item

(paragraph) Rates of duty

10 5% ad val.

38 3 ¾% ad val.

53 3 ¼ per lb.

328 [first] 12 ½ % ad val.

601 20 per lb.

740 3 per lb.

742 1 per lb.

744 All rates

781 12 ½ % ad val.

1519 (b) Both rates

1545 12 ½% ad val.

1672 Free

1686 Free

1732 Free [identified as to olive oil only];

7. Whereas I determine that, in view of the determination set forth in the sixth recital of this proclamation, the deletion of Item 328 from the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of January 1, 1948, as amended and rectified, is required or appropriate to carry out, on and after March 9, 1950, the said exclusive trade agreement specified in the third recital of this proclamation:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim as follows:

PART I

To the end that the said trade agreement for accession specified in the first recital of this proclamation may be carried out, the identification of each of the concessions provided for in Part I of the said Schedule XX in Annex A which is included in the sixth recital of this proclamation shall, on and after March 9, 1950, be included in the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of December 22, 1949.

PART II

To the end that the said exclusive trade agreement specified in the third recital of this proclamation may be carried out, the list set forth in the ninth recital of the said proclamation of January 1 1948, as amended and rectified, shall, on and after March 9, 1950, be further amended by deleting therefrom the Item 328 referred to in the seventh 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 1st day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

DEAN ACHESON,

Secretary of State.