Proclamation 3117—Termination of Guatemalan Trade Agreement Proclamation

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), the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the President of the Republic of Guatemala on April 24, 1936 (49 Stat. 3990), and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamation of May 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 3989); and

Whereas the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Guatemala have agreed to terminate the said trade agreement effective October 15, 1955; and

Whereas the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 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, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 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 proclaim that the said proclamation dated May 16, 1936 shall be terminated as of the close of October 14, 1955.

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 seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State