Proclamation 3053—Termination of Uruguayan Trade Agreement Proclamations

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 time within which the President was authorized to enter into trade agreements pursuant to such amending act having been extended for three years from June 12, 1940, by the Joint resolution of Congress approved April 12, 1940 (54 Stat. 107), the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay on July 21, 1942 (56 Stat. 1626), and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamations of November 10, 1942 (56 Stat. 1624), and December 3, 1942 (58 Stat. 1681); and

Whereas, pursuant to an agreement reached by the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay providing for the termination of the said trade agreement, such trade agreement ceased to have effect on December 28, 1953; and

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, 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 proclamations dated November 10, 1942, and December 3, 1942, are hereby terminated as of December 28, 1953.

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 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

WALTER B. SMITH,

Acting Secretary of State