Proclamation 3818—Termination of Further Staging of Certain Concessions in Interim Trade Agreements With Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan

1. Whereas, pursuant to Section 201(a) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821 (a)), I entered into and proclaimed the following Interim Agreements Relating to the Renegotiation of Schedule XX (United States) to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A1157):

(a) Agreement of December 17, 1965, with Canada (TIAS 5912), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3694 of December 27, 1965 (30 F.R. 17147),

(b) Agreement of April 5, 1966, with the United Kingdom (TIAS 5975), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3712 of April 5, 1966 (31 F.R. 5543), and

(c) Agreement of September 6, 1966, with Japan (TIAS 6106), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3744 of September 13, 1966 (31 F.R. 12391);

2. Whereas Article II of, and Annex II to, the agreements identified in the first recital of this proclamation provide, for each of the items in the Tariff Schedules of the United States listed in the annex to this proclamation, a rate reduction less than the maximum rate reduction authorized by Section 201 (b) (1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821 (b) (1)), or than the duty elimination authorized by Section 202 of that Act (19 U.S.C. 1822);

3. Whereas Part I of Schedule XX (United States) to the Geneva (1967) Protocol, of June 30, 1967, to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, 6th Round of Trade Negotiations, Schedule XX: United States, June 1967) provides, for each of the items listed in the annex to this proclamation, a rate reduction greater than that provided for in any of the agreements identified in the first recital of this proclamation, or a duty elimination;

4. Whereas, by separate agreements of June 30, 1967, with Canada (TIAS 6316), the United Kingdom (TIAS 6318), and Japan (TIAS 6317), it was agreed that, in the case of each item listed in the annex to this proclamation for which a reduction was provided for in the agreement with that country identified in the first recital to this proclamation, the level of reduction in effect on June 30, 1967, shall be the final level of reduction under that agreement for purposes of staging the further reduction or elimination of duty provided for in Part I of Schedule XX (United States) referred to in the third recital of this proclamation; and

5. Whereas Section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1885 (b)) provides that the President may at any time terminate, in whole or in part, any proclamation made under Section 201 (a) of that Act:

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do proclaim that:

(1) Proclamation Nos. 3694, 3712, and 3744 identified in the first recital of this proclamation are terminated to the extent that they provide, on and after July 1, 1967, for any item in the Tariff Schedules of the United States identified in the annex to this proclamation, a rate of duty lower than the rate set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

(2) The Tariff Schedules of the United States shall be modified, with respect to each item identified in the annex to this proclamation, to provide for such item, effective on and after July 1, 1967, the continuation, until modified or amended, of the rate of duty set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-second.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON