Proclamation 3365—Modification of Trade Agreement Concessions on Cotton Typewriter-Ribbon Cloth

1. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), the President on October 30, 1947, entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as Schedule XX-1947) and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6) A7, All, and A2051), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out such trade agreement, and that proclamation was amended by Proclamation No. 2790 of June 11, 1948 (62 Stat. (pt. 2) 1515);

2. Whereas such General Agreement has been supplemented by an agreement consisting of the Protocol of Terms of Accession of Japan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade dated June 7, 1955 (6 UST (pt. 5) 5833), which includes a supplementary schedule of United States concessions (hereinafter referred to as Schedule XX1955), and the President, by Proclamation No. 3105 of July 22, 1955 (69 Stat. c44), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties as would be required or appropriate to carry out such supplemental agreement, and that proclamation was supplemented by a notification by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury dated August 22, 1955 (20 P.R. 6211);

3. Whereas United States tariff concessions on cotton cloth provided for in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of Paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930 were granted in the trade agreements referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation, as set forth in items 904(a) (first and second], 904 (b), and 904(c) in Part I of the said Schedule Iii-1947 and in Part I of the said Schedule Iii-1955;

4. Whereas the current United States duties applicable to "cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, classifiable under subparagraph (a), (b), or (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50 but not No. 140, the total thread count of which per square inch (counting warp and Ailing), is not lees than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed 60 percent of the total thread count of the warp and filling" (hereinafter sometimes referred to as cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth) reflect the tariff concessions granted in items 904(a) [first and second], 904(b), and 904(c) referred to in the third recital of this proclamation;

5. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the President on January 9, 1936, entered into a trade agreement with the Swiss Federal Council (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3918), and by proclamation of January 9, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3917), proclaimed such agreement, and that proclamation has been supplemented by a proclamation of May 7, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3959), and a proclamation of November 28, 1940 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2461);

6. Whereas item 904(b) (c) in the United States schedule of tariff concessions included in the trade agreement referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation includes a tariff concession on certain cotton cloth provided for in subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930;

7. Whereas the United States has accepted the Declaration for Provisional Accession of the Swiss Confederation to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, done at Geneva November 22, 1958 (TIAS 4481), and the Government of the United States and the Government of the Swiss Confederation, by an Exchange of Notes signed March 29, 1960, relating to the said Declaration, entered into certain understandings with regard to the actions that may be taken pursuant to Article = of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the case of a product subject to a concession under the trade agreement referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation and also to a concession under such General Agreement (TIAS 4447);

8. Whereas the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its Investigation No. 7-85 under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1384), on the basis of which investigation, and a hearing held in connection therewith, the Commission has found that, as a result in part of the duties reflecting the concessions granted thereon in the trade agreements referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation, cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like products, and that in order to remedy such serious injury it is necessary to increase the duties on cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth to the rates originally established in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930;

9. Whereas upon the modification of various items in Part I of Schedule XX-1947 and Part I of Schedule XX1955 as hereinafter proclaimed, the rates of duty on cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth originally established in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph 904 of the Tariff Act of 1930 will apply to such cloth:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, do proclaim that, effective after the close of business on September 22, 1980, and until the President otherwise proclaims'

A. Items 904(a) [first and second], 904 (b), and 904(c) in Part I of the said Schedule XX-1947 and item 904(a) [second] in Part I of the said Schedule XX1955, are modified by inserting in each such item, immediately after the matter in the column headed "Description of Products," the following:

"Provided, that this item shall not apply to cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50 but not No. 140, the total thread count (treating ply yarns as single threads) of which per square inch, counting warp and filling, is not less than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed 60 per centum of the total thread count of the warp and filling."

B. Items 904(a) [first], 904(b), and 904(c) in Part I of Schedule XX-1955 are modified by inserting in each such item, immediately after the matter in the column headed "Description of Products", the following:

"Provided, that this item shall not apply to cotton cloth suitable for making typewriter ribbon, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds No. 50, the total thread count (treating ply yarns as single threads) of which per square inch, counting warp and filling, is not less than 240 and not more than 840, and in which the thread count of either the warp or filling does not exceed SO per centum of the total thread count of the warp and filling."

C. The proclamations referred to in the first and second recitals of this proclamation shall be applied to items 904(a) [first and second], 904(b), and 904(c) in Part I of Schedule XX-1947 and in Part I of Schedule XX-1955 as modified by paragraphs (A) and (B) of this proclamation.

D. The proclamations referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation shall be suspended insofar as they apply to cotton typewriter-ribbon cloth included in item 904(b) (c) of Schedule II of the trade agreement referred to in such recital.

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 twenty-third day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fifth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State.