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SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION NO. 2790 OF JUNE 11, 1948, PROCLAIMING THE PROTOCOL OF RECTIFICATIONS TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

WHEREAS Proclamation No. 2790 of June 11, 1948,(1) proclaimed that the provisions of part I of schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade should be applied as if the rectifications in the Protocol of Rectifications to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, referred to in the 7th recital of the said proclamation, had appeared in the said general agreement on October 30, 1947; and

WHEREAS the rate of duty for item 1110 of schedule XX specified in the copy of the said protocol annexed to the said proclamation of June 11, 1948, reads: "35 per lb. and 25&37; ad val."; and

WHEREAS the rate of duty for the said item should read: "33 per lb. and 25&37; ad val.":

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), do proclaim that the said Proclamation No. 2790 of June 11, 1948, shall be applied as if the copy of the said protocol annexed thereto had stated the rate of duty for item 1110 of schedule XX to be 33? per lb. and 25&37; ad val.

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 seventh day of September 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 seventy-third. [SEAL]

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

G. C. MARSHALL,
Secretary of State.

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