Proclamation 3455—Modification of Trade Agreement Concessions and Adjustment of Duties on Cylinder, Crown, and Sheet Glass

1.     Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a schedule of United States concessions, and the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with a Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (61 Stat. (Pts. 5 and 6) A7, A11, and A2051), and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (Pt. 2) 1103) he proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out that agreement on and after January 1, 1948, which proclamation has been supplemented by several subsequent proclamations;

2.     Whereas the said General Agreement has been supplemented by several subsequent agreements, including the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of May 23, 1956 (7 UST (Pt. 2) 1086), and Proclamation No. 3140 of June 13, 1956 (70 Stat. C33), proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said agreements on and after June 30, 1956;

3.     Whereas the trade agreement specified in the second recital of this proclamation included a supplementary schedule of United States concessions, hereinafter referred to as "Schedule XX-1956";

4.     Whereas the prevailing United States tariff concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as supplemented, with respect to the duties that may be imposed under paragraph 219 of the Tariff Act of 1930 on cylinder, crown, and sheet glass are included in item 219 in Part I of Schedule XX-1956, and the current United States duties reflecting the said prevailing tariff concessions are those specified in the said item 219 as follows:

5.     Whereas the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me a report of its Investigation No. 7-101 under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1364), on the, basis of which investigation, and a hearing held in connection therewith, the Commission has found that, as a result in part of the duties reflecting the concessions granted thereon in the said General Agreement, as supplemented, cylinder, crown, and sheet glass provided for in paragraph 219 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (except such glass weighing not over 4 ounces per square foot), whether or not subject to additional duties under paragraph 224 of the said Act, is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like products; and that, in order to remedy the serious injury to the domestic industry concerned, it is necessary that there be applied to such glass the duties hereinafter proclaimed;

6. Whereas, upon modification of the said prevailing concessions as hereinafter proclaimed, it will be appropriate, to carry out the said General Agreement, to apply to the glass referred to in the fifth recital of this proclamation the duties hereinafter proclaimed:

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7(c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the said General Agreement, do proclaim that, effective after the close of business April 18, 1962, and until the President otherwise proclaims--

(a)     The descriptions of products in the said item 219 in Part I of Schedule XX-1956 and the pertinent rates in "B" and "C" of the "Rates of Duty" columns are hereby modified to read as follows:

and

(b)     the provisions of item 219 in Part I of Schedule XX 1956, as modified by (a) above, shall be applied and all inconsistent provisions of proclamations of the President heretofore issued under the authority of section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930 are suspended.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United Mates of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this nineteenth, day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

GEORGE BALL,

Acting Secretary of State