Proclamation 3007—Supplementing Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947, With Respect to Certain Cattle

1. Whereas, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943; ch. 118, 57 Stat. 125; ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410), 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 and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the 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. (Parts 5 and 6) A7, A11, and A2051), and, by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (Part 2) 1103), the President 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 trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948;

2. Whereas the first item 701, and the appropriate headings, in Part I of Schedule XX annexed to the General Agreement, which item was proclaimed by the said proclamation of December 16, 1947, read as follows:

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3. Whereas, by Proclamation No. 2974 2 of April 28, 1952 (17 F.R. 3813), the President proclaimed the termination on that day of the unlimited national emergency proclaimed on May 27, 1941:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, including the said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, (ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943; ch. 118, 57 Stat. 125; ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410; ch. 585, 63 Stat. 697), do proclaim that the abnormal situation in respect of cattle and meats referred to in the said first item 701 has terminated, and accordingly the first proviso to the said item shall be effective on and after April 1, 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 second day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State