Proclamation 3225—Amendment of Proclamation No. 3160, Relating to Certain Woolen Textiles

1. Whereas, by Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956 (3 CFR, 1956 Supp., p. 44), the President announced the invocation by the Government of the United States of America of the reservation contained in the note to item 1108 in Part I of Schedule XX annexed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A 11, A 1274), and proclaimed that the ad-valorem part of the rate applicable to fabrics described in item 1108 or item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A 1274), or in item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (3 UST (pt. 1) 615, 1186), entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in excess of certain quantities would be 45 per centum; and

2. Whereas I find that, effective January 1, 1958, it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that the ad-valorem part of the rate be 30 per centum ad valorem in the case of any of the fabrics described in the said item 1108 or 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which are described in paragraph (a) of the seventh recital of the said proclamation of September 28, 1956, as amended by paragraph 2 of this proclamation:

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 of the Tariff Aet of 1930, as amended (ch. 474, 49 Stat. 943; ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410; ch. 169, 69 Stat. 162; 19 U. S. C. 1351) do proclaim that the said proclamation of September 28, 1956, is hereby amended as follows:

1. The sixth recital is deleted.

2. The seventh recital is amended to read as follows:

"7. Whereas I find that following December 31, 1957, until otherwise proclaimed by the President, it will be appropriate to carry out the trade agreements specified in the first and third recitals of this proclamation that

"(a) the ad-valorem part of the rate be 30 per centum ad valorem in the case of any of the fabrics described in the said item 1108 or item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade set forth in the second recital of this proclamation which are

"(1) hand-woven fabrics with a loom width of less than 30 inches, or

"(ii) serges, weighing not over 6 ounces per square yard, and nuns' veilings and other woven fabrics, weighing not over 4 ounces per square yard; all of the foregoing described in this clause (11) wholly or in chief value of wool of the sheep, valued at over $4 per pound, in solid colors, imported to be used in the manufacture of apparel for members of religious orders, and

"(b) that the ad-valorem part of the rate be 45 per centum ad valorem in the case of any other of the fabrics described in the said item 1108 or item 1109 (a), or in the case of any of the fabrics described in the said item 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the Torquay Protocol set forth in the fourth recital of this proclamation, excepting in each case articles dutiable at rates applicable to such fabrics by virtue of any provision of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, other than paragraph 1108 or 1109 (a), if any of the foregoing fabrics described in this recital are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any calendar year after that total aggregate quantity by weight of such fabrics which shall have been notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury, and published in the Federal Register, has been SO entered or withdrawn during such calendar year; which quantity the President shall have found to be not less than 5 per centum of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics; and"

3. Paragraph 1 is amended to read as follows:

"1. In order to carry out the said trade agreements specified in the first and third recitals of this proclamation, until otherwise proclaimed by the President, the ad-valorem part of the rate which shall be applied to the said fabrics described in the seventh recital of this proclamation entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in excess of a quantity notified to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to that recital shall be the percentage ad-valorem specified for such fabrics in the 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 7th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State