Proclamation 3285—Further Amendment of Proclamation No. 3160, Relating to Certain Woolen Textiles

1. Whereas by Proclamation No. 3160 of September 28, 1956 (71 Stat. C12), as amended by Proclamation No. 3225 of March 7, 1958 (3 CFR, 1958 Supp., p. 19), 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) All, Al274), and proclaimed that the ad-valorem part of the rate applicable to fabrics described in item 1108 or 1109 (a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) Al274), 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XX to the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (3 UST (pt. 1) 615, 1186), entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in excess of certain quantities would be either 30 per centum or 45 per centum, depending on the classification of such fabrics; and

2. Whereas I find that as of January 1, 1959, it will be appropriate to carry out the 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 item 1108 or 1109(a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or in item 1109(a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which are described in subparagraph (a) of the seventh recital of the proclamation of September 28, 1956, as amended by the proclamation of March 7, 1958, and as further amended by 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(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 3 (a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 162; 19 U.S.C. 1351(a), Sup. V), and by section 3(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 673; Public Law 85-686, sec. 3(a)), do hereby proclaim that the seventh recital of the proclamation of September 28, 1956, as amended by the proclamation of March 7, 1958, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"7. Whereas I find that following December 31, 1958, and 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 the ad-valorem part of the rate be as set forth below in the case of the fabrics described in item 1108 or 1109(a) in Part I of Schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade set forth in the second recital hereof, or in item 1109(a) in Part I of Schedule XX to the Torquay Protocol set forth in the fourth recital hereof (except 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)), 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 (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), has been so entered or withdrawn during such calendar year:

"(a) 30 per centum ad valorem in the case of any such fabrics which are:

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

"(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 (ii) 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, or

"(iii) woven fabrics not described in either clause (i) or clause (ii) of this subparagraph wholly or in chief value of wool of the sheep or hair of the Angora goat, weighing over 6 ounces per square yard and valued at over $6.50 per pound, or weighing over 4 ounces, but not over 6 ounces, per square yard and valued at over $7 per pound, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any calendar year after such aggregate quantity notified by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury has been so entered or withdrawn but before there shall have been so entered or withdrawn 350,000 pounds of woven fabrics not described in either clause (i) or clause (ii) of this subparagraph wholly or in chief value of wool of the sheep or hair of the Angora goat, weighing over 6 ounces per square yard and having a purchase price determined from the invoice of over $6.50 per pound, or weighing over 4 ounces, but not over 6 ounces, per square yard and having a purchase price determined from the invoice of over $7 per pound (such purchase price to be determined by the Collector of Customs on the basis of the aggregate price, including all expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States, but excluding transportation, insurance, duty, and other charges incident to bringing the merchandise from the place of shipment in the country of exportation to the place of delivery in the United States), and

"(b) 45 per centum ad valorem in the case of any other of such fabrics; and".

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-first day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Acting Secretary of State