Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/919

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1932. 2517 CHANGING DUTY ON INFANTS' WOOJ~ KNIT OUTERWEAR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA lune 11, 1032. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 336 of Title III, Part II, w:!:n~1t 22:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)' of the act of Congress approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 590, 701), K~mble. th riza. entitled "AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with tion. tory au 0 foreign countries,. to encourage the industries of the United States, Vol. t6, p. 701. to protect AmerIcan labor, and for other purposes," the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with reopect to, infants' outerwear, knit or crocheted, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of wool, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and wit,h respect to like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country; WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice 'Was given and at which parties in- terested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard; WHEREAS the commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production; WHEREAS the commission has found it shown by said inv€3tigation that the principal competing country is the Uruted Kingdom, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differ- ences in the costs of production of the domestic artIcles and the like or similar foreign artIcles when produced in said principal competing country, and h8.s specified in its re-- r .... ~)-e decrease and the increase in the rates of duty expressly fi.~ed. _ " 'q found by the commis- sion to be shown by said investigatl ,_ 0

}-'cessary to equalize

such differences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the Presiden~ ;:,,,,t,h rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Commission to be neces- sary to equalize such differences in costs of production; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United eq~~J~Jnerer:= f~ States of America, do hereby approve and ;t?roclaim the following costsofprodnction. rates of duty found to be shown by said investIgation to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production: A decrease in the rates of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1114(d) J!"~~r!b~~t~~ of Title I of said act on infants' outerwear, finished or unfinished, stitch. ' wholly or in chief value of wool, made or cut from Jersey fabric knit Vol. t6, p. Mg . in plain stitch on a circular machine, not specially provided for, valued at more than $2 per pound, from 50 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem to 50 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem; and An increase in the rates of duty expressly fixed in paragraph 1114(d) tJ~~e~ OD of Title I of said act on infants' outerwear, knit or crocheted, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of wool, and not specially pro- vided for, valued at more than $2 per pound, from 50 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem to 50 cents per pound and 75 per centum ad valorem. 3051°-33 -PT 2-57