of December 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 1103), the United States customs treatment of alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 is the application of duty at the rate of 2 cents per pound, which treatment reflects the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to such product;

4. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its report of an investigation, including a hearing, under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, as a result of which the Commission has found that alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 is, as a result in part of the customs treatment reflecting the concession granted with respect to such product in the said General Agreement, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products;

5. WHEREAS section 350 (a) (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (48 Stat. 943), authorizes the President to proclaim such modification of existing duties and such additional import restrictions as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350 (a); and

6. WHEREAS I find that the modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 to permit the application to such seed of the duties hereinafter proclaimed is necessary to remedy the serious injury to the domestic industry producing the like or directly competitive product, and that upon such modification of the concession it will be appropriate to carry out the said General Agreement to apply to alsike clover seed the rates of duty hereinafter proclaimed:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, 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, and by section 7 (c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, and in accordance with the provisions of the said General Agreement, do proclaim—

(a) That the provision in the said item 763 with respect to alsike clover seed, referred to in the second recital of this proclamation, shall be modified,

(b) That, during the 12-month period beginning on July 1, 1954, alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 as modified by paragraph (a) above, shall be subject to the rates of duty specified in such modified item 763.

Proclamation No. 2761A of December 16, 1947, as amended and supplemented, is modified accordingly during the 12month period beginning on July 1, 1954.

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 30th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and seventy-eighth.

[SEAL]

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:
JOHN FOSTER Dulles,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 3060

EXTENSION OF THE PERIOD OF THE DUTYFREE TREATMENT TO PHILIPPINE ARTICLES IN THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 401 of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 143), the President of the United States, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary, entered into an agreement on July 4, 1946, with the President of the Philippines; and

WHEREAS on October 22, 1946, the two Governments exchanged notes making certain clarifying amendments to the said agreement; and

WHEREAS the said agreement and the said notes were proclaimed by the President of the United States by Proclamations of December 17, 1946 and January 8, 1947, and entered into force on January 2, 1947; and

WHEREAS the act of July 5, 1954, entitled "An Act to provide for an extension on a reciprocal basis of the period of the free entry of Philippine articles in the United States", provides as follows:

"The duty-free treatment provided for in section 201 of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 143) shall apply in lieu of the treatment specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 202 of that Act, to Philippine articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, in the United States for consumption during such period after July 3, 1954, but not after December 31, 1955, as the President may declare by proclamation to be a period during which United States articles, as defined in that Act, will be admitted into the Republic of the Philippines free of ordinary customs duty, as such duty is defined in that Act. Notwithstanding any such proclamation, paragraph (2) of such subsection shall be considered as having been in effect for the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraph (3) of such subsection.":

NOW THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said act of July 5, 1954, do hereby declare and proclaim on the basis of information received from the Government of the Philippines, that United States articles, as defined in the said Philippine Trade Act of 1946, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines for consumption, during the period from July 4, 1954, to December 31, 1955, both dates inclusive, will be admitted into the Philippines free of ordinary customs duty, as such duty is defined in the said Philippine Trade Act of 1946.

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 tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 3061

TERMINATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 2545,1 ENTITLED "FREE IMPORTATION OF JERKED BEEF"

WHEREAS Proclamation No. 2545 of April 1, 1942, issued under section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (46 Stat. 696; 19 U. S. C. 1318), authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit, under such regulations and subject to such conditions as the Secretary may deem necessary, the importation of jerked beef free of duty for distribution or sale to consumers in Puerto Rico; and

WHEREAS it now appears that it would be in the public interest to terminate such proclamation as hereinafter provided:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 318 of the said Tariff Act of 1930, and as President of the United States, do hereby terminate the said Proclamation No. 2545, such termination to become effective on the thirty-fifth day following the date 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 12th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty[SEAL] four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,
Secretary of State.

17 F. R. 2611, 3 CFR, 1943 Cum. Supp.

PROCLAMATION 3062 MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSIONS AND ADJUSTMENT IN RATES OF DUTY WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN WATCH MOVEMENTS

1. WHEREAS, under authority of section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the President on January 9, 1936, entered into a trade agreement with the Swiss Federal Council, including two schedules and a declaration annexed thereto (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3918), and by proclamation of January 9, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3917), proclaimed the said trade agreement, which proclamation has been supplemented by proclamation of May 7, 1936 (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3959), and proclamation of November 28, 1940 (54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2461); and

2. WHEREAS the said trade agreement was supplemented on October 13, 1950, by certain provisions set forth in the 13th recital of the President's proclamation of November 26, 1951 (Proclamation No. 2954; 16 F. R. 11943); and

3. WHEREAS the said trade agreement includes duty concessions granted by the United States with respect to products described in item 367 (a) of Schedule II of the said trade agreement (49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3940); and

4. WHEREAS, to carry out the said trade agreement, since February 15, 1936, duties at the rates respectively specified in the said item 367 (a) have been applied to the products described in such item, which duties reflect the duty concessions granted in the said trade agreement with respect to such products; and 5. WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has submitted to me its report of an investigation, including a hearing, under section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended, as a result of which the Commission has found that certain products described in the said item 367 (a) are, as a result in part of the duties reflecting

United States Tariff Act of 1930 Paragraph

367 (a).

the concessions granted thereon in the said trade agreement, being imported into the United States in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industries producing like or directly competitive products; and

6. WHEREAS the Tariff Commission has recommended that the duty concessions granted in the said trade agreement with respect to certain products described in the said item 367 (a) be modified to permit the application to such products of higher rates of duty hereinafter proclaimed, which rates the Commission found and reported to be necessary to remedy the serious injury to the domestic industries producing like or directly competitive products; and

7. WHEREAS section 350 (a) (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (48 Stat. 943), authorizes the President to proclaim such modifications of existing duties as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into under the said section 350 (a); and

8. WHEREAS upon the modification of duty concessions in the said trade agreement as recommended by the Tariff Commission it will be appropriate, to carry out the said trade agreement, as supplemented on October 13, 1950, to apply to the said products the rates of duty hereinafter proclaimed:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and by section 7 (c) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance with the said trade agreement as supplemented October 13, 1950, do proclaim

(a) That the provisions of item 367 (a) of Schedule II of the said trade agreement shall be modified, effective at the close of business July 27, 1954, so as to read as follows:

United States Tariff Act of 1930 Paragraph

367 (a)

Rate of Duty

$2.0214 each. $2.50 each.

$0.75 each.

$0.84 each.

$0.93 each.

$1.05 each.

$1.121⁄2 each.

$1.121⁄2 each. $1.35 each.

$0.13% for each jewel in excess of 7.

$0.50 for each adjustment.

(b) That, until the President otherwise proclaims, the rates of duty specified in such modified item 367 (a) as set forth in paragraph (a) above shall be applied to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption which are exported to the United States after the date of this proclamation, and shall be applied to articles exported to the United States on or before that date which are so entered or withdrawn after the close of business August 26, 1954.

The said proclamation of January 9, 1936, as supplemented, is modified accordingly.

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 twenty-seventh day of July in the year

of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyninth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 3063

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1954 WHEREAS during the past year preventable fires have taken thousands of lives; and

WHEREAS destruction of property by fire results in an annual loss of nearly a billion dollars, of an untold number of jobs, and of an irreplaceable amount of production; and

WHEREAS safety of life and property and conservation of natural resources are of primary importance to every citizen of the Nation; and

WHEREAS the effectiveness of sound fire prevention programs has been demonstrated in communities throughout the land:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 3, 1954, as Fire Prevention Week.

I call upon all citizens to initiate a year-round campaign against the waste caused by preventable fires, and I urge State and local governments, the American National Red Cross, the National Fire Waste Council, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and business, labor, and farm organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and pub

lic information agencies, to cooperate in the observance of Fire Prevention Week. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in this national campaign against the loss of life and property resulting from fires.

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 Fourth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyninth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOIN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 3064

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 1954 WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved on April 17, 1952 (66 Stat. 64), provided that the President "shall set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National Day of Prayer, on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation"; and

WHEREAS Americans of every generation have sought and found in Almighty God help and guidance in their personal and national problems; and

WHEREAS it is fitting that all Americans should unite in prayer on one day of each year in reaffirmation of our reliance upon divine support and our faith in the power of prayer:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, September 22, 1954, as a National Day of Prayer, when all of us may give thanks for blessings received, and beseech God to strengthen us in our efforts toward a peaceful world.

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 eleventh day of August in the year of

our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 3065

FIRST INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT
CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION

WHEREAS the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition is to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to 25, 1954, inclusive, for the purpose of exhibiting various kinds of scientific instruments and devices and the promotion of foreign and domestic trade and commerce in such products; and

WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 28, 1954, authorized the President of the United States of America, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in such International Congress and Exposition; and

WHEREAS the participation by the States of the Union and foreign countries in the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition will advance the arts and sciences connected with the theory, design, manufacture, and use of instruments in the various sciences and technologies, and further foreign and domestic commerce in these articles:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the States of the Union and all countries of the free world to participate in the First International Instrument Congress to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to September 25, 1954, inclusive.

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 twenty-eighth day of August in the year

of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States