Proclamation 3951—Further Extension of Remaining Increased Duties on Imports of Sheet Glass

1. Whereas, pursuant to Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), the President by Proclamation No. 3455 of March 19, 1962 (76 Stat. 1454), as modified by Proclamation No. 3458 of March 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 1457), proclaimed, effective after the close of business June 17, 1962, and until the President otherwise proclaimed, increased duties on imports of certain types of sheet glass;

2. Whereas, after compliance with the requirements of Section 102 of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 73), the President by Proclamation No. 3548 of August 21, 1963 (77 Stat. 1017), proclaimed, effective on and after August 31, 1963, the Tariff Schedules of the United States, which reflected, with modifications, and, in effect, superseded, Proclamation No. 3455 by providing for the increased duties on imports of such types of sheet glass in items 923.11 through 923.99 and item 924.00 in Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States;

3. Whereas, pursuant to Section 351(c) (1) (A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1981(c) (1) (A)) and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the President by Proclamation No. 3762 of January 11, 1967 (81 Stat. 1076), terminated the increased duties on imports of sheet glass provided for in items 923.11 through 923.25, items 923.42 through 923.67, items 923.92 through 923.99, and item 924.00, and reduced the increased duties provided for in items 923.31 through 923.37, and items 923.71 through 923.77;

4. Whereas, pursuant to Section 351(c) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the President by Proclamation No. 3816 of October 11, 1967 (81 Stat. 1139), extended the remaining increased rates of duty on imports of sheet glass provided for in items 923.31 through 923.77 in Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to the close of December 31, 1969;

5. Whereas, pursuant to Section 301(b) (1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1901(b) (1)), the Tariff Commission, on July 2, 1969, instituted an investigation, the report to the President on which is to be made not later than December 27, 1969, to determine whether glass of the kinds provided for in items 541.11 through 541.31, 542.11 through 542.98, 543.11 through 543.69, 544.31, and 544.32 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States are, as a result in major part of concessions granted thereon under trade agreements, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause, or threaten to cause, serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products;

6. Whereas, in relation to the possible further extension of such remaining increased duties, I have taken into account advice received from the Tariff Commission on December 1, 1969, and the advice of the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor in accordance with Section 351(c) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, recommendations of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations in accordance with Sections 3 (b), 3(j), and 5(c) of Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (48 CFR 1.3 (b), 1.3(j), and 1.5(c)), and advice of other interested agencies of the Government; and

7. Whereas, pursuant to Section 351(c) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, I have determined that the provisional further extension, as herein proclaimed, of the remaining increased duties on imports of sheet glass provided for in items 923.31 through 923.77 is in the national interest:

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 351(c) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do proclaim that the remaining increased rates of duty on imports of sheet glass provided for in items 923.31 through 923.77 in Subpart A of Part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States are extended to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period beginning on January 1, 1970, and ending at the close of March 31, 1970, unless the President proclaims otherwise with respect to any such glass, pursuant to Section 351(c) (2) or (a) (1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, following receipt by the President of the report of the Tariff Commission referred to in the fifth recital.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

RICHARD NIXON