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Proclamation 2982—Terminating the Turkish Trade Agreement Proclamations

July 18, 1952


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Whereas, under the authority vested in him by section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934, entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), which amending Act was extended by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the President of the Turkish Republic on April 1, 1939 (54 Stat. 1871), and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamations of April 5, 1939 (54 Stat. 1870), and November 30, 1939 (54 Stat. 1896);

2. Whereas the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Turkey have agreed to terminate the said trade agreement, effective August 4, 1952;

3. Whereas the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 authorizes the President to terminate in whole or in part any proclamation carrying out a trade agreement entered into under such section:

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(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the said proclamations dated April 5, 1939, and November 30, 1939, shall terminate August 4, 1952.

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 18th day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh.

Signature of Harry S. Truman

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

DEAN ACHESON,

Secretary of State.

Harry S Truman, Proclamation 2982—Terminating the Turkish Trade Agreement Proclamations Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287490

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