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GENERAL NOTES

1. The provisions of this list shall be construed and given the same effect, and the application of collateral provisions of the customs laws of the United States to the provisions of this list shall be determined, insofar as may be practicable, as if each provision of this list appeared respectively in the statutory provision noted in the column at the left of the respective description of articles.

2. Any additional or separate ordinary customs duty provided for in respect of any article described in this list, whether or not imposed under the statutory provision indicated in the column at the left of the description of the article and whether or not temporarily or conditionally inapplicable, shall continue in force until terminated in accordance with law, subject to any reduction, or consolidation with the primary duty, indicated in this list or hereafter provided for, and subject to any temporary or conditional exemption therefrom now or hereafter provided for by law.

WHEREAS (10) said exchange of notes of December 19 and 22, 1947 provides that said exclusive trade agreement shall enter into force on January 1, 1948;

WHEREAS (11) I find that such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment as are hereinafter proclaimed will be required or appropriate, on and after January 1, 1948, to carry out said exclusive trade agreement;

WHEREAS (12), pursuant to the authority conferred by said section 350, the President entered into an exclusive trade agreement with the President of the Republic of Cuba on August 24, 1934 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3559 to 3645) which exclusive trade agreement was proclaimed by the President on August 24, 1934 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3559 to 3646);

WHEREAS (13), the period within which said authority might be exercised having been extended by the Joint Resolution of March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24, ch. 22), the President pursuant to that authority entered into an exclusive supplementary trade agreement, including an accompanying protocol, with the President of the Republic of Cuba on December 18, 1939 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2000 to 2012), which exclusive supplementary trade agreement and protocol were proclaimed on December 19, 1939 (54

Stat. (pt. 2) 1997 to 2013 and were the subject of a supplementary proclamation by the President on December 22, 1939 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2014);

WHEREAS (14), the period within which said authority might be exercised having been extended by the Joint Resolution of April 12, 1940 (54 Stat. 107, ch. 96), the President pursuant to that authority entered into a further exclusive supplementary trade agreement, including an exchange of notes, with the President of the Republic of Cuba on December 23, 1941 (55 Stat. (pt.2) 1452 to 1477), which further exclusive supplementary trade agreement and exchange of notes were proclaimed by the President on December 29, 1941 (55 Stat. (pt. 2) 1449 to 1477);

AND WHEREAS (15) numbered paragraph 1 of said exclusive trade agreement, said exchange of notes of December 19 and 22, 1947, and one of said exchanges of letters of October 30, 1947 provide that the Convention of Commercial Reciprocity between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba, signed December 11, 1902 (33 Stat. (pt. 2) 2136 to 2142) and said exclusive trade agreement specified in the 12th recital of this proclamation, with its accompanying exchange of notes (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3647 to 3649), as amended by said exclusive supplementary trade agreement specified in the 13th recital hereof, with its accompanying exchange of notes (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2015 to 2017), and by said further exclusive supplementary trade agreement specified in the 14th recital hereof, except the right of termination on one year's notice of said convention and on six months' notice of said exclusive trade agreement of August 24, 1934, as amended, shall become inoperative on January 1, 1948;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, to the end that said exclusive trade agreement of October 30, 1947 may be carried out and acting under the authority of said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby proclaim, effective on and after January 1, 1948 and subject to the provisions of said protocol of provisional application, said article 17 of the draft charter, and exceptions and conditions set forth in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) below, such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America in eral agreement, or of said article 17 of the draft charter, except such rates as are proclaimed pursuant to the provisions of said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended;

respect of products of the Republic of Cuba and such continuance of existing customs and excise treatment of products of the Republic of Cuba imported into the United States of America as are specified or provided for in said exclusive trade agreement of October 30, 1947, in said provisions of the general agreement to the extent that they are made a part of said exclusive trade agreement:

(a) The rates of duty and import tax specified in the column at the right of the respective descriptions of products in part II of schedule XX of said general agreement shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth in that schedule and said other provisions of the general agreement made a part of said exclusive trade agreement of October 30, 1947, to all products of the Republic of Cuba of the kinds provided for in the said descriptions;

(b) The rates of duty and import tax specified in the column at the right of the respective descriptions of products listed in the 8th and 9th recitals of this proclamation shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth therein, respectively, to the products of the Republic of Cuba of the kinds provided for in said descriptions so long as such rates are listed in said recitals;

(c) The rates of duty and import tax applicable to articles which are products of the Republic of Cuba not provided for in subdivision (a) or (b) above at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption of such articles shall be the rates then applicable to articles of the same class or kind the product of countries, other than the Republic of Cuba, that are contracting parties to said general agreement in accordance with article XXXII thereof;

(d) The provisions of subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) shall not apply to a particular article by virtue of this proclamation if, when the articles is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, more favorable customs treatment is prescribed therefor by a statute, proclamation, or executive order then in effect; and

(e) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed as authorizing the application of any rate of duty or import tax computed on the basis of any provision of numbered paragraph 2 of said exclusive trade agreement, of article I of said gen

AND I do further proclaim (a) that each of the proclamations specified in the 12th, 13th, and 14th recitals of this proclamation shall not be in effect after December 31, 1947, except insofar as it may relate to the termination on six months' notice of any of the exclusive trade agreements specified in said recitals, and (b) that said Convention of Commercial Reciprocity, except such part thereof as relates to its termination on one year's notice, and the exchanges of notes referred to in the 15th recital of this proclamation as accompanying the exclusive trade agreements specified in the 12th and 13th recitals thereof shall become inoperative on January 1, 1948.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

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EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RENEWING TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS: NORWAY

WHEREAS by the act of Congress approved July 17, 1946, 60 Stat. 568, the President is authorized, under the conditions prescribed in that act, to grant an extension of time for the fulfillment of the conditions and formalities for the renewal of trade-mark registrations prescribed by section 12 of the act authorizing the registration of trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and to protect the same, approved February 20, 1905, as amended (15 U. S. C. 92), by nationals of countries which accord substantially equal treatment in this respect to citizens of the United States of America:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946, do find and proclaim that with respect to trade-marks of nationals of Norway registered in the United States Patent Office which have been subject to renewal on or after September 3, 1939, there has existed during several years since that date, because of conditions growing out of World War II, such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of such registrations by section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, as to bring such registrations within the terms of the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946; that Norway accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States; and that accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of registrations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with respect to such registrations which expired after September 3, 1939, and before June 30, 1947, until and including June 30, 1948.

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 6th day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond.

[SEAL]

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:
G. C. MARSHALL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2766

EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RENEWING TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS: LUXEMBOURG

WHEREAS by the act of Congress approved July 17, 1946, 60 Stat. 568, the President is authorized, under the conditions prescribed in that act, to grant an extension of time for the fulfillment of the conditions and formalities for the

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renewal of trade-mark registrations prescribed by section 12 of the act authorizing the registration of trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and protecting the same, approved February 20, 1905, as amended (15 U. S. C. 92), by nationals of countries which accord substantially equal treatment in this respect to citizens of the United States of America:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946, do find and proclaim that with respect to trade-marks of nationals of Luxembourg registered in the United States Patent Office which have been subject to renewal on or after September 3, 1939, there has existed during several years since that date, because of conditions growing out of World War II, such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of such registrations by section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, as to bring such registrations within the terms of the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946; that Luxembourg accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States; and that accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of registrations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with respect to such registrations which expired after September 3, 1939, and before June 30. 1947, until and including June 30, 1948.

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 21st day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond.

[SEAL]

By the President:

HARRY S. TRUMAN

G. C. MARSHALL, Secretary of State.

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PROCLAMATION 2767

PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

WHEREAS the youth of this Nation is its most precious asset and best hope for the future; and

WHEREAS the incidence of juvenile delinquency is a reflection of the failure of our society to afford to all of its young people a full measure of protection and opportunity for health and happiness, and to inculcate in them a sense of the true values of life and citizenship; and

WHEREAS in November 1946 many important agencies, governmental and private, national and local, and individuals the country over, banded together, at the call of the Attorney General of the United States, in a National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, to study and make recommendations for immediate action in every State and community for the solution of juvenile delinquency problems; and

WHEREAS this National Conference has now made available for use by individuals and organizations throughout the Nation, certain Action Reports, which are the best available tools for the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, and has urged upon the States and communities immediate action with respect to the recommendations in those Reports, and, in particular, the holding of State and community conferences, developed on the general pattern of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency; and

WHEREAS the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, to be effective, must be pursued primarily in the States and communities where daily contacts are maintained with the children themselves:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States, in their homes and churches, in the schools and hospitals, in social welfare and health agencies, in enforcement agencies and courts, in institutions for the care of delinquent juveniles, and in their minds and hearts, to act, individually and together, for the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, so that our children and youth

may fulfill their promise and become effective citizens in our Nation. I further urge them, as the most direct means to this end, to respond promptly to the call of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency by carefully preparing for, and holding, wherever possible during the month of April 1948, State and community conferences, developed on the general pattern of the National Conference, and at these conferences, or otherwise, to study State and local conditions in the light of the recommendations of the National Conference; to put into immediate effect such of the recommendations as are pertinent to State and local conditions; to develop firm foundations for continuing community action; and to take such other action as may be useful in solving this vital youth problem and in developing the genuine opportunities for useful living to which our young people are entitled. I urge this to the end that in no part of the Nation shall action be omitted which is practical and useful in reaching the objectives of the National Conference in the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency in this Nation.

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 27th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond.

[SEAL]

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:
G. C. MARSHALL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2768

EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RENEWING TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS: DENMARK

WHEREAS by the act of Congress approved July 17, 1946, 60 Stat. 568, the President is authorized, under the conditions prescribed in that act, to grant an extension of time for the fulfillment of the conditions and formalities for the renewal of trade-mark registrations prescribed by section 12 of the act authorizing the registration of trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and protecting the same, approved February 20, 1905, as amended (15 U. S. C. 92), by nationals of countries which accord substantially equal treatment in this respect to citizens of the United States of America:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946, do find and proclaim that with respect to trade-marks of nationals of Denmark registered in the United States Patent Office which have been subject to renewal on or after September 3, 1939, there has existed during several years since that date, because of conditions growing out of World War II, such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of such registrations by section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, as to bring such registrations within the terms of the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946; that Denmark accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States; and that accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of registrations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with respect to such registrations which expired after September 3, 1939, and before June 30, 1947, until and including June 30, 1948.

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 30th day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond.

[SEAL]

By the President:

G. C. MARSHALL,

HARRY S. TRUMAN

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2769

SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATIONS OF DE

CEMBER 16, 1947 AND JANUARY 1, 1948, CARRYING OUT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE AND EXCLUSIVE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH CUBA, RESPECTIVELY

WHEREAS (1), pursuant to the authority conferred by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 1 of the Act of June 12, 1934, by the Joint Resolution Approved June 7, 1943, and by section 2 of the Act of July 5, 1945 (48 Stat. 943 and 944, ch. 474, 57 Stat. 125, ch. 118, 59 Stat. 410 and 411, ch. 269; 19 U. S. C. (1940) 1351 (a), 19 U. S. C. (1940) Supp. V, 1351 (a) (2) and (b)), the period within which said authority may be exercised having been extended by section 1 of said Act of July 5, 1945 until the expiration of three years from June 12, 1945 (48 Stat. 944, ch. 474, 59 Stat. 410, ch. 269; 19 U. S. C. (1940) Supp. V, 1352 (c)), on October 30, 1947 the President entered into a trade agreement with the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Czechoslovak Republic, the French Republic, India, Lebanon, the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Norway, Pakistan, Southern Rhodesia, Syria, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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 which authenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol;

WHEREAS (2) on December 16, 1947 by Proclamation 2761A1 the President proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out said trade agreement on and after January 1, 1948 (12 F. R. 8863);

WHEREAS (3), pursuant to the authority conferred by said section 350, the 13 CFR, 1947 Supp.

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