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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [56 STAT. SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943; U.S .C ., 1940 ed., title 19, sec. 1351(a)), the period within which such authority may be exercised having been extended by Joint Resolutions of Congress approved March 1, 1937 and April 12, 1940 (48 Stat. 944, 50 Stat. 24, 54 Stat. 107; U.S.C., 1940 ed., title 19, sec. 1352(c)), I entered into a Trade Agreement, including three Schedules annexed thereto, on October 14, 1941, through my duly empowered Plenipo- tentiary, with the Vice President of the Argentine Republic, in the exercise of the Executive Power, through his duly empowered Pleni- potentiary, which Agreement was supplemented by four exchanges of notes between the Ambassador of the United States of America at Buenos Aires and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic; WHEREAS, by my proclamation of October 31, 1941, I did proclaim the said Trade Agreement, including the said Schedules and notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof should be observed and fulfilled by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, provisionally on and after November 15, 1941, and definitively thirty days after the exchange of the said proclamation and the instrument of ratification of the Government of the Argentine Republic as pro- AnU. p. 1700. vided for in Article XVII of the Agreement; AND WHEREAS, the proclamation of the said Trade Agreement by the President of the United States of America and the instrument of ratification thereof by the Government of the Argentine Republic were duly exchanged at Washington on December 9, 1942. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of October 31, 1941, do hereby proclaim that the said Effective date. Trade Agreement will enter definitively into force on January 8, 1943, the thirtieth day following December 9, 1942, the date of the exchange of my said proclamation and the said instrument of ratification of the Government of the Argentine Republic. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at Washington this eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT CORDELL HULL Secretary of State 1752