Proclamation 3366—Termination of the Iranian Trade Agreement Proclamations

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, and the joint resolutions of Congress approved March 1, 1937, 50 Stat. 24, and April 12, 1940, 54 Stat. 107, the President entered into a trade agreement with His Imperial Majesty the Shah-in-Shah of Iran on April 8, 1943, 58 Stat. 1322, and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamation dated March 31, 1944 (58 Stat. 1322), and the effective date thereof by proclamation dated May 29, 1944 (58 Stat. 1356);

2. Whereas the Government of the United States of America and the Imperial Government of Iran have agreed to terminate such trade agreement as of August 25, 1960; and

3. Whereas paragraph (6) of 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 section 350(a) (6) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the proclamations dated March 31, 1944, and May 29, 1944, specified in the first recital of this proclamation, shall terminate as of the close of August 25, 1960.

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-fourth 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.