(2) The Tariff Schedules of the United States shall be modified, effective on and after May 1, 1966, as provided for in Appendix A to this proclamation.

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 fifth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. [SEAL]

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

APPENDIX A

THE

MODIFICATIONS OF THE TARIFF SCHEDULES OF
UNITED STATES RESULTING FROM THE PROCLAMATION
OF THE INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM RELATING TO THE
RENEGOTIATION OF SCHEDULE XX (UNITED STATES) TO
THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

The rate in column numbered 1 for each item of the Tariff Schedules of the United States which is identified in the following table shall be superseded, effective on each date shown in such table, by the respective rate set forth therein opposite the number of such item:

TSUS item

Rates of duty, effective with respect to articles en-
tered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consump-
tion on and after May 1,-

20% ad
val.
22.5% ad
val.

8% ad val.

Termination of Proc. No. 3712 by Proc. No. 3818, set out as a note following this Part, to the extent it provides, on and after July 1, 1967, for any item in the Tariff Schedules identified in the annex to Proc. No. 3818, a rate of duty lower than the rate set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

PROC. No. 3744. TRADE AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN
PROVIDING COMPENSATORY CONCESSIONS

Proc. No. 3744, Sept. 13, 1966, 31 F.R. 12391, provided:

1. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the President, on October 30, 1947, entered into, and by Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. (pt. 2) 1103), proclaimed, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement"), including a schedule of United States concessions, designated as Schedule XX, annexed thereto (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A1157), which Agreement, schedule, and proclamation have been supplemented by subsequent agreements, schedules, and proclamations;

2. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No. 3235 of April 21, 1958 (72 Stat. (pt. 2) C35) and by Proclamation No. 3323 of October 20, 1959 (74 Stat. C15), the President proclaimed increased rates of duty, pursuant to section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 74; 67 Stat. 472; 69 Stat. 166; 72 Stat. 676) and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), with respect to certain clinical thermometers and to certain stainless-steel flatware, respectively, and, by Proclamation No. 3513 of December 28, 1962 (77 Stat. 970) the President proclaimed concessions compensatory for such increased rates of duty, subject to the qualification that if Proclamation No. 3235 or Proclamation No. 3323 should be modified or terminated so as to result in a lowering of the increased rates of duty provided for therein, the United States and Japan would

enter into negotiations or consultations with a view to reaching a mutually satisfactory adjustment of the balance of concessions under the General Agreement (13 U.S.T. (pt. 3) 3194);

3. WHEREAS, by Proclamation No. 3696 of January 7, 1966 (31 F.R. 421), the President terminated Proclamation No. 3235 and, by Proclamation No. 3697 of January 7, 1966 (31 F.R. 423), terminated Proclamation No. 3323, thereby terminating the increased rates of duty with respect to the clinical thermometers and reducing the increased rates of duty with respect to the stainless-steel flatware, respectively, identified in the second recital of this proclamation;

4. 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. 2761A and proclamations supplementary thereto insofar as they relate to Schedule XX to the General Agreement;

5. WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 221 and 224 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1841 and 1844), the President, on October 21, 1963, published and furnished to the Tariff Commission lists of articles which may be considered for modification or continuance of duties or other import restrictions, or continuance of duty-free or excise treatment, in the negotiation of trade agreements, including the trade agreement with Japan identified in the tenth recital of this proclamation, compensating other nations for modifications or withdrawals of United States trade agreement concessions (48 CFR Part 180), and the Tariff Commission, after holding public hearings, has advised the President with respect to each such article of its judgment as to the probable economic effect of such modifications;

6. WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 223 and 224 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1843 and 1844) and in accordance with Section 3(g) of Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (48 CFR 1.3(g)), the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, appointed by the President pursuant to Section 241(a) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1871(a)), on April 23, 1963, designated the Trade Information. Committee to afford an opportunity, through public hearings and other means, for any interested person to present his views concerning any article on the lists identified in the fifth recital of this proclamation or any other matter relevant to the trade agreement negotiations, including the negotiation of the trade agreement with Japan identified in the tenth recital of this proclamation (48 CFR Part 202), and the Trade Information Committee has furnished the President with a summary of its hearings;

7. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 222 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1842), the President has received information and advice with respect to the trade agreement with Japan identified in the tenth recital of this proclamation, from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Interior, Labor, State, and the Treasury, and from such other sources as the President has deemed appropriate, and, pursuant to Section 241(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1871(b)), the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations has received information and advice with respect to that agreement from representatives of industry, agriculture, and labor, and from such agencies as he has deemed appropriate;

8. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 201(a)(1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821(a)(1)), the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations has conducted negotiations on behalf of the President with Japan and other contracting parties to the General Agreement, in accordance with Article XXVIII of that Agreement (8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1790), with a view to the establishment of a new consolidated Schedule XX to that Agreement in terms of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, and has conducted negotiations

Rates of duty, effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after October 1,

Termination of Proc. No. 3744 by Proc. No. 3818, set out as a note following this Part, to the extent it provides, on and after July 1, 1967, for any item in the Tariff Schedules identified in the annex to Proc. No. 3818, a rate of duty lower than the rate set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

PROC. No. 3818. TERMINATION OF FURTHER STAGING OF
CERTAIN CONCESSIONS IN INTERIM TRADE AGREEMENTS
WITH CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND JAPAN

Proc. No. 3818, Nov. 6, 1967, 32 F.R. 15467, provided: 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 201(a) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821(a)), I entered into and proclaimed the following Interim Agreements Relating to the Renegotiation of Schedule XX (United States) to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A1157):

(a) Agreement of December 17, 1965, with Canada (TIAS 5912), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3694 of December 27, 1965 (30 F.R. 17147),

(b) Agreement of April 5, 1966, with the United Kingdom (TIAS 5975), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3712 of April 5, 1966 (31 F.R. 5543), and (c) Agreement of September 6, 1966, with Japan (TIAS 6106), which was proclaimed by Proclamation No. 3744 of September 13, 1966 (31 F.R. 12391);

2. WHEREAS Article II of, and Annex II to, the agreements identified in the first recital of this proclamation provide, for each of the items in the Tariff Schedules of the United States listed in the annex to this proclamation, a rate reduction less than the maximum rate reduction authorized by Section 201(b)(1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1821(b)(1)), or than the duty elimination authorized by Section 202 of that Act (19 U.S.C. 1822);

3. WHEREAS Part I of Schedule XX (United States) to the Geneva (1967) Protocol, of June 30, 1967, to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, 6th Round of Trade Negotiations, Schedule XX: United States, June 1967) provides, for each of the items listed in the annex to this proclamation, a rate reduction greater than that provided for in any of the agreements identified in the first recital of this proclamation, or a duty elimination;

4. WHEREAS, by separate agreements of June 30, 1967, with Canada (TIAS 6316), the United Kingdom (TIAS 6318), and Japan (TIAS 6317), it was agreed that, in the case of each item listed in the annex to this proclamation for which a reduction was provided for in the agreement with that country identified in the first recital to this proclamation, the level of reduction in effect on June 30, 1967, shall be the final level of reduction under that agreement for purposes of staging the further reduction or elimination of duty provided for in Part I of Schedule XX (United States) referred to in the third recital of this proclamation; and

5. WHEREAS Section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1885(b)) provides that the President may at any time terminate, in whole or in part, any proclamation made under Section 201(a) of that Act [19 U.S.C. 1821(a)]:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 255(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 [19 U.S.C. 1885(b)], do proclaim that:

(1) Proclamation Nos. 3694, 3712, and 3744 identified in the first recital of this proclamation are terminated to the extent that they provide, on and after July 1, 1967, for any item in the Tariff Schedules of the United States identified in the annex to this proclamation, a rate of duty lower than the rate set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

(2) The Tariff Schedules of the United States shall be modified, with respect to each item identified in the annex to this proclamation, to provide for such item, effective on and after July 1, 1967, the continuation, until modified or amended, of the rate of duty set forth opposite thereto in the annex.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-second.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

ANNEX

ITEMS ON WHICH FURTHER REDUCTIONS ARE BEING TERMINATED, LEVEL OF RATE REDUCTION IN EFFECT ON JUNE 30, 1967, AND DATE ON WHICH SUCH LEVEL BECAME EFFECTIVE

STAGED RATE MODIFICATIONS

Proc. No. 3822, Dec. 16, 1967, 32 F.R. 19002, prescribed modifications in rates of duty for items 220.10, 220.15, 220.20, 220.25, 220.31, 220.35, 220.38, 220.40, 220.45, 220.50, 222.10, 222.15, 222.20, 222.25, 222.30,

222.32, 222.34, 222.36, 222.41, 222.42, 222.44, 222.55, 222.57, 222.60, 222.62 and 222.64, effective with respect to articles entered on and after Jan. 1, 1968, Jan. 1, 1969, Jan. 1, 1970, Jan. 1, 1971, and Jan. 1, 1972. The rates of duty set forth in this Part reflect the rates effective on and after Jan. 1, 1972.

PART 3-WOOD VENEERS, PLYWOOD, AND OTHER WOOD-VENEER ASSEMBLIES, AND BUILDING BOARDS
[28 F.R. 8711]

1. For the purposes of this part, the following terms have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

(a) Wood veneers: Wood sheets or strips, regardless of thickness, quality or intended use, produced by the slicing or rotary cutting of logs or flitches; and wood sheets, not over 4 inch in thickness, produced by sawing and of a type used to overlay inferior material;

(b) Plywood: Rigid wood-veneer assemblies bonded together with adhesive substances having a central ply or core of wood veneer or lumber with one or more plies of wood veneer on each side thereof, the grain of at least one ply being at an angle (usually a right angle) with the grain of one or more of the other plies, including such assemblies the face ply (or plies) of which has been mechanically scored, striated, or similarly processed;

(c) Wood-veneer panels: Rigid wood-veneer assemblies, bonded together with adhesive substances, except plywood, with a wood-veneer ply on one side of a backing, or on both sides of a core, which backing or core may be composed of lumber. veneer, hardboard, wood particle board, or other material, including such assemblies the face ply (or plies) of which has been mechanically scored, striated, or similarly processed;

(d) Cellular panels: Rigid assemblies bonded together with adhesive substances with both sides or faces consisting of veneer, plywood, lumber, woodveneer panels, hardboard, wood particle board, or other board composed of vegetable fibers, and with a core of hollow, honeycomb, or sponge like construction, whether or not the interstices are filled with loose or loosely matted fibrous materials; and (e) Building boards: Panels of rigid construction, including tiles and insulation board, chiefly used in the construction of walls, ceilings, or other parts of buildings.

2. The term "face finished", as applied to the boards
and panels provided for in this part, means that one or
both surfaces of a panel or board have been treated
with creosote or other wood preservatives, or with
fillers, sealers, waxes, oils, stains, varnishes, paints, or
enamels, or have been overlaid with paper, fabric, plas-
tics, base metal or other material.

Wood veneers, whether or not face finished, including wood
veneers reinforced or backed with paper, cloth, or other
flexible material:

Not reinforced or backed:
Birch and maple.

4% ad val

Philippine mahogany (almon (Shorea almon), bagtikan 40% ad val.
(Parashorea plicata), red lauan (Shorea negrosensis),
white lauan (Pentacme contorta and P. mindanensis),
mayapis (Shorea squamata), tangile (Shorea poly-
sperma) and tiaong (Shorea spp.)); meranti (Shorea
spp.); red seraya (Shorea spp.); and white seraya (Par-
ashorea spp.).

20% ad val.
20% ad val.

Other.

Reinforced or backed:

Decorative wood veneers, not face finished, or face 8% ad val
finished with a clear or transparent material
which does not obscure the grain, texture, or
markings of the wood.

Other

Plywood, whether or not face finished:

Not face finished, or face finished with a clear or trans-
parent material which does not obscure the grain, tex-
ture, or markings of the face ply:

With a face ply of Spanish cedar (Cedrela spp.).
With a face ply of Parana pine (Araucaria angusti-
folia).

With a face ply of birch (Betula spp.).

See footnotes at end of table.

GSP Item

PART 3-WOOD VENEERS, PLYWOOD, AND OTHER WOOD-VENEER ASSEMBLIES, AND BUILDING BOARDS-Continued [28 F.R. 8711]

Articles

Rates of duty

Plywood, whether or not face finished-Continued

A

240.16

With a face ply of European red pine (Pinus sylves- 8.5% ad val
tris).

40% ad val.

40% ad val.

With a face ply of Philippine mahogany (almon 8.5% ad val.
(Shorea almon), bagtikan (Parashorea plicata),|
red lauan (Shorea negrosensis), white lauan (Pen-
tacme contorta and P. mindanensis), mayapis
(Shorea squamata), tangile (Shorea polysperma)|
and tiaong (Shorea spp.)); meranti (Shorea spp.);
red seraya (Shorea spp.); and white seraya (Para-
shorea spp.).

With a face ply of walnut (Juglans spp.).
Other:

With a face ply of softwood.
Other

Other.....

Wood-veneer panels, whether or not face finished:
With veneer faces on both sides:

Not face finished, or face finished with a clear or
transparent material which does not obscure the
grain, texture, or markings of the face ply:

20% ad val

40% ad val.

20% ad val

40% ad val.

2

With a face ply of Spanish cedar (Cedrela spp.)...
With a face ply of Parana pine (Araucaria an-
gustifolia).

240.36

With a face ply of European red pine (Pinus syl- 8.5% ad val
vestris).

40% ad val.

Laminated boards bonded in whole or in part, or impreg- 2.5¢ per lb. +4.5% ad val..... 15¢ per lb. + 25% ad val.
nated, with synthetic resins

Other boards, of vegetable fibers (including wood Free.
fibers).

See footnotes at end of table.

20% ad val.

6% ad val

30% ad val.

AMENDMENTS

Item 245.45. Article description preceding item 245.45 and items 245.45 and 245.50 substituted in lieu of struck item 245.50 by Pub. L. 89-241, §§ 2(a), 13, Oct. 7, 1965, 79 Stat. 933, 935, to apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the 60th day after Oct. 7, 1965.

STAGED RATE MODIFICATIONS

Proc. No. 3822, Dec. 16, 1967, 32 F.R. 19002, prescribed modifications in rates of duty for items 240.00,

240.03, 240.04, 240.06, 240.10, 240.12, 240.14, 240.16, 240.23, 240.30, 240.32, 240.34, 240.36, 240.38, 240.40, 240.50, 240.52, 240.54, 240.56, 240.58, 240.60, 245.00, 245.10, 245.30, 245.45, 245.50, 245.60, 245.70, 245.80 and 245.90, effective with respect to articles entered on and after Jan. 1, 1968, Jan. 1, 1969, Jan. 1, 1970, Jan. 1, 1971, and Jan. 1, 1972. The rates of duty set forth in this Part reflect the rates effective on and after Jan. 1,

1972.