(J) Such article is of a class or kind with respect to which the Secretary of the Treasury has given notice by publication in the weekly Treasury Decisions within two years after July 1, 1937, that articles of such class or kind were imported in substantial quantities during the five-year period immediately preceding January 1, 1937, and were not required during such period to be marked to indicate their origin: Provided, That this subdivision (J) shall not apply after September 1, 1938, to sawed lumber and timbers, telephone, trolley, electriclight, and telegraph poles of wood, and bundles of shingles; but the President is authorized to suspend the effectiveness of this proviso if he finds such action required to carry out any trade agreement entered into under the authority of the Act of June 12, 1934 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 19, secs. 1351-1354), as extended. (52 Stat. 1077 and 1078, ch. 679; 19 U. S. C. (1940) 1304 (a) (8) (J).);

WHEREAS (4) I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America, 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 GrandDuchy 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 are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in said section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Governments of some or all of the above-named countries;

WHEREAS (5) reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the

negotiation thereof were received and considered;

WHEREAS (6), after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, the Army, and the Navy, and from other sources, on October 30, 1947 I entered, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, into a trade agreement with the Governments of the above-named countries, which trade agreement, consisting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade including nine annexes and twenty schedules and the related Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which authenticated the texts of said general agreement and said protocol, which trade agreement is authentic in the English and French languages, as indicated and is embodied in the document annexed to this proclamation; '

WHEREAS (7) the Governments of the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, and the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, and, in respect of their respective metropolitan territories, the Governments of the Kingdom of Belgium, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having signed said protocol prior to November 15, 1947, will apply provisionally, on and after January 1, 1948, pursuant to paragraph 1 thereof, (a) parts I and III of said general agreement and (b) part II thereof to the fullest extent not inconsistent with existing legislation;

WHEREAS (8) I determine, in accordance with the provisions of article XXVII of said general agreement, that the concessions provided for in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement which are identified in the following list should not be applied so long as such concessions are identified in such list:

WHEREAS (10) I find that such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles as are hereinafter proclaimed will be required or appropriate, on and after January 1, 1948, to carry out said trade agreement;

AND WHEREAS (11) I find that the suspension of the effectiveness of the proviso to subdivision (J) of section 304 (a) (3) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, is required, except with respect to bundles of red-cedar shingles, to carry out said trade agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, to the end that said trade agreement may be carried out and acting under the authority of the said sections 304 and 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 and to the exceptions and conditions set forth in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) below, 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 are specified or provided for in parts I, II, and III, annexes D, H, and I, and part I of, and the general notes in, schedule XX of said general agreement:

(a) The rates of duty and import tax specified in the column at the right of the respective descriptions of products in part I of schedule XX of the said general agreement shall be applied, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and qualifications set forth in that schedule and in parts I, II, or III of that agree

40% ad val.

45% ad val.

75% ad val.

65% ad val. 45% ad val.

ment, to all articles of the kinds provided for in the said descriptions, except that no such rate shall be applied to a particular article by virtue of this proclamation if, when the article is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption,

(I) The rate represents a concession identified in the list set forth in the 8th recital of this proclamation,

(II) The rate is specified in item 720 (a), item 745, item 806 (b), or the first item 1529 (a) in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement as set forth in the document annexed to this proclamation, or

(III) More favorable customs treatment is prescribed for the article by a statute, proclamation, or executive order then in effect;

(b) The rates of duty specified in the 9th recital of this proclamation shall be applied respectively to the articles described in the column at the left of such rates as though the said rates, descriptions, and related paragraph numbers appeared in part I of schedule XX of said general agreement; and

(c) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed as authorizing the application of any rate of duty or import tax computed on the basis of the provisions of article I of the said general agreement, except such rates as may hereafter be proclaimed pursuant to the provisions of section 350, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended;

AND I do further proclaim that, on and after January 1, 1948, the effectiveness of said proviso to subdivision (J) of section 304 (a) (3) of the Tariff Act

2 See footnote 1, p. 71.

PROCLAMATION 2762

GRANTING PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS CONVICTED OF VIOLATING THE SELECTIVE TRAINING AND SERVICE ACT OF 1940 AS AMENDED

WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 9814 of December 23, 1946,1 there was established the President's Amnesty Board, the functions and duties of which were set out in paragraph 2 of the said Executive order as follows:

"The Board, under such regulations as it may prescribe, shall examine and consider the cases of all persons convicted of violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 301 ff.), or of any rule or regulation prescribed under or pursuant to that Act, or convicted of a conspiracy to violate that Act or any rule or regulation prescribed under or pursuant thereto. In any case in which it deems it desirable to do so, the Board shall make a report to the Attorney General which shall include its findings and its recommendations as to whether Executive clemency should be granted or denied, and, in any case in which it recommends that Executive clemency be granted, its recommendations with respect to the form that such clemency should take. The Attorney General shall report the findings and recommendations of the Board to the President, with such further recommendations as he may desire to make."

and

WHEREAS the Board, after considering all cases coming within the scope of paragraph 2 of the said Executive order, has made a report to the Attorney General, which includes the findings of the

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Board and its recommendation that Executive clemency be granted in certain of such cases; and

WHEREAS the Attorney General has submitted such report to me with his approval of the recommendation made by the Board with respect to Executive clemency; and

WHEREAS upon consideration of the report and recommendation of the Board and the recommendation of the Attorney General, it appears that certain persons convicted of violating the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended ought to have restored to them the political, civil, and other rights of which they were deprived by reason of such conviction and which may not be restored to them unless they are pardoned:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article II of the Constitution of the United States, do hereby grant a full pardon to those persons convicted of violating the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended whose names are included in the list of names attached hereto and hereby made a part of 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 23rd day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond.

[SEAL]

By the President:

HARRY S. TRUMAN

ROBERT A. LOVETT,

Acting Secretary of State.

LIST OF NAMES

Name, Date Convicted and U. S. District
Court

1. Aaron, Herbert Huston, October 20, 1942, Eastern Arkansas.

2. Abernathy, Wilburn, September 22, 1944, Northern Alabama.

3. Abram, Joel, Jr., April 14, 1943, Southern West Virginia.

4. Ackerman, Paul Roland, December 27, 1940, Oregon.

5. Adamy, Edward N., April 30, 1943, New Jersey.

6. Addington, Norman Wallace, October 9, 1945, Eastern Kentucky.