TABLE 16.-Lead-containing materials and articles: Ad valorem equivalents ef 1930 and 1953 rates of duty

Ad valorem equivalents are based on value of all imports; where significantly different, ad valorem equa lents based on value of dutiable imports only are also shown]

TABLE 17.-Zinc-containing materials and articles: Ad valorem equivalents ef 1930 and 1953 rates of duty

[Ad valorem equivalents are based on value of all imports; where significantly different, ad valorem equite lents based on value of dutiable imports only are also shown]

IANGES IN EXISTING PROVISIONS OF LAW WHICH WILL BE MADE IF H. R. 4294, 83D CONGRESS, THE PROPOSED "TRADE AGREEMENTS EXTENSION ACT OF 1953," IS ENACTED

The changes in existing law which will be effected by passage of H. R. 4294 are set th below. Matter in existing law which will be deleted is shown in black brackets []; w matter added by H. R. 4294 is italicized.

NOTE.-Section 2 of H. R. 4294, 83d Congress, if enacted, would extend for one year from ne 12, 1953, the present expiration date, the period during which the President is authord to enter into foreign-trade agreements under section 350, Tariff Act of 1930, as ended.

TRADE AGREEMENTS EXTENSION ACT OF 1951

SEC. 3. (a) Before entering into negotiations concerning any proposed foreign de agreement under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, the esident shall furnish the United States Tariff Commission (hereinafter in this t referred to as the "Commission") with a list of all articles imported into the ited States to be considered for possible modification of duties and other port restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or continuance existing customs or excise treatment. Upon receipt of such list the Commison shall make an investigation and report to the President the findings of e Commission with respect to each such article as to (1) the limit to which ch modification, imposition, or continuance may be extended in order to carry it the purpose of such section 350 without causing or threatening [serious jury to the domestic industry] unemployment of or injury to American ørkers, miners, farmers, or producers, producing like or [directly] competitive ticles, or impairment of the national security; and (2) if increases in duties additional import restrictions are required to avoid [serious injury to the omestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles] such unemployent, injury, or impairment, or threat thereof, the minimum increases in duties · additional import restrictions required. Such report shall be made by the ommission to the President not later than 120 days after the receipt of such st by the Commission. No such foreign trade agreement shall be entered into ith respect to any article imported into the United States until the Commission as made its report with respect to such article to the President [or until the xpiration of the 120-day period].

(b) In the course of any investigation pursuant to this section, the Commison shall hold hearings and give reasonable public notice thereof, and shall fford reasonable opportunity for parties interested to be present, to produce vidence, and to be heard at such hearings.

(c) Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930", pproved June 12, 1934, as amended (19 U. S. C., sec. 1354), is hereby amended y striking out the matter following the semicolon and inserting in lieu thereof he following: “and before concluding such agreement the President shall request he Tariff Commission to make the investigation and report provided for by ection 3 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and shall seek inforpation and advice with respect to such agreement from the Departments of State, griculture, Commerce, and Defense, and from such other sources as he may eem appropriate."

SEC. 4. (a) Within thirty days after any trade agreement under section 350 f the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, has been entered into which, when effecive, will] The President shall not enter into any trade agreement under section 50 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which, when effective, would

(1) require or make appropriate any modification of duties or other import restrictions, the imposition of additional import restrictions, or the continuance of existing customs or excise treatment, which modification, imposition, or continuance will exceed the limit (as found and reported by the Tariff Commission under section 3) to which such modification, imposition, or continuance may be extended without causing or threatening [serious injury to the domestic industry] unemployment of or injury to American workers, miners, farmers, or producers, producing like or [directly] competitive articles, [as found and reported by the Tariff Commission under section 3,] or impairment of the national security; or

(2) fail to require or make appropriate the minimum increase in duty or additional import restrictions required (as found and reported by the Tariff Commission under section 3) to avoid such [injury,] unemployment, injury, or impairment, or threat thereof [the President shall transmit to Congress a copy of such agreement together with a message accurately identifying the article with respect to which such limits or minimum requirements are 32604-53-128

not complied with, and stating his reasons for the action taken with respet to such article. If either the Senate or the House of Representatives. both, are not in session at the time of such transmission, such agreeK and message shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk : the House of Representatives, or both, as the case may be]. 【(b) Promptly after the President has transmitted such foreign trade arre ment to Congress the Commission shall deposit with the Committee on Ways a Means of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, a copy of the portions of its report to the President dealing with th articles with respect to which such limits or minimum requirements are r complied with.]

SEC. 5. As soon as practicable, the President shall take such action as is neces sary to suspend, withdraw or prevent the application of any reduction in a rate of duty, or binding of any existing customs or excise treatment, or ot concession contained in any trade agreement entered into under authority section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended and extended, to imports fre the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to imports from any nation or ar dominated or controlled by the foreign government or foreign organization of trolling the world Communist movement.

SEC. 6. [(a)] No reduction in any rate of duty, or binding of any existi customs or excise treatment, or other concession heretofore or hereafter pre claimed under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, shall be pe mitted to continue in effect when the product on which the concession has le granted is, as a result, in whole or in part, of the duty or other customs trat ment reflecting such concession, being imported into the United States in si increased quantities[] (either actual or relative) [] or under such condit. as to cause or threaten [serious injury to the domestic industry] unemployTM* of or injury to American workers, miners, farmers, or producers, prodo2 like or [directly] competitive products, or impairment of the national serv [(b) The President, as soon as practicable, shall take such action as may necessary to bring trade agreements heretofore entered into under section Se of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, into conformity with the policy establiste in subsection (a) of this section.]

[On or before January 10, 1952, and every six months thereafter, the Preside shall report to the Congress on the action taken by him under this subsectic] SEC. 7. (a) Upon the request of the President, upon resolution of either Hea of Congress, upon resolution of either the Committee on Finance of the Senate the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, upon is own motion, or upon application of any interested party, the United Stat Tariff Commission shall promptly make an investigation and make a rep thereon not later than [one year] six months after the application is made t determine whether any product upon which a concession has been granted und? a trade agreement is, as a result, in whole or in part, of the duty or otr customs treatment reflecting such concession, being imported into the Tr States in such increased quantities[] (either actual or relative) [] or mad, such conditions as to cause or threaten [serious injury to the domestic industry unemployment of or injury to American workers, miners, farmers, or products producing like or [directly] competitive products, or impairment of the nati security.

In the course of any such investigation, whenever it finds evidence of [seri injury or threat of serious injury】 such unemployment, injury, or impairmen or threat thereof, or whenever so directed by resolution of either the Commite on Finance of the Senate or the Committee on Ways and Means of the House Representatives, the Tariff Commission shall hold hearings giving reasons! public notice thereof and shall afford reasonable opportunity for interes parties to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard at such hearings Should the Tariff Commission find, as the result of its investigation a hearings, that a product on which a concession has been granted is, as a res in whole or in part, of the duty or other customs treatment reflecting such cession, being imported in such increased quantities [.] (either actual or res tive) [] or under such conditions as to cause or threaten [serious injury? the domestic industry] unemployment of our injury to American workers, miners, farmers, or producers, producing like or [directly] competitive prodnes or impairment of the national security, it shall [recommend] so report to th President [the withdrawal or modification of the concession, its suspension whole or in part, or the establishment of import quotas, to the extent and f the time necessary to prevent or remedy such injury. Within sixty days, c

her if the President has taken action under subsection (c) of this section,]. · Tariff Commission shall include in such report the extent to which, and time for which it finds and declares that

(A) permanent withdrawal of the concession;

(B) modification of the concession;

(C) suspension of the concession;

(D) limitation of the quantity of the product which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption; or

(E) any combination of any of the foregoing, is necessary in order to prevent or remedy such unemployment, injury, or impairmant, or threat thereof.

e Tariff Commission, in making any finding and declaration under the preing sentence with respect to any increase in duty, shall not be limited by second sentence of subsection (a) (2) of section 350 of the Tariff Act of 0, as amended. The Tariff Commission shall transmit to the Committee on ance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of presentatives an exact copy of its report and recommendations to the sident.

b) In arriving at a determination in the foregoing procedure the Tariff_Comsion, without excluding other [factors, shall take into consideration a] evice of injury, shall consider as evidence of injury the existence or likely occurce of any of the following factors: A downward trend of production, employnt, prices, profits, or wages [in the domestic industry concerned, among the erican workers, miners, farmers, or producers concerned, or a decline in sales, increase in imports, either actual or relative to domestic production, a higher growing inventory, or a decline in the proportion of the domestic market suped by domestic producers.

(e) [Upon] Within 30 days after the receipt of the Tariff Commission's report der subsection (a), [of its investigation and hearings,] the President may ke】 shall by proclamation take such [adjustments in the rates of duty, impose ch quotas, or make such other modifications as are found and reported by the mmission to be necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury to the respective mestic industry. If the President does not take such action within sixty days shall immediately submit a report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the ouse and to the Committee on Finance of the Senate stating why he has not ade such adjustments or modifications, or imposed such quotas.] action as is und and declared by the Commission in such report to be necessary to prevent remedy such unemployment, injury, or impairment, or threat thereof. (d) When, as the result of its investigation and hearings under this section, n] it is the judgment of the Tariff Commission [no sufficient reason exists for recommendation to the President that a concession should be withdrawn or odified or a quota established,] that it is not necessary to take any action with espect to a product it shall make and publish a report [stating] of its findings nd conclusions.

SEC. 8. (a) In any case where [the Secretary of Agriculture determines and ports to the President and to the Tariff Commission with regard to any agriltural commodity that due to the perishability of the commodity a condition xists requiring emergency treatment.]—

(1) any interested party has filed an application with the Tariff Commission stating that due to the perishability of any agricultural commodity emergency treatment is required; and

(2) the Secretary of Agriculture does not, within fifteen days after the day on which the application was filed, certify to the Tariff Commission that such commodity is not perishable,

he Tariff Commission, proceeding under section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustnent Act or under section 7 of this Act, shall (A) make an immediate investigaion [under the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as mended, or under the provisions of section 7 of this Act to determine the facts, and (B) make [recommendations] its report to the President [for such relief under those provisions as may be appropriate. The President may take imnediate action, however, without awaiting the [recommendations] report of the Tariff Commission if in his judgment the emergency requires such action. ny case the report and findings of the Tariff Commission shall be made, and the [decision] action of the President shall be [made] taken, at the earliest possible ate [and but in [any] no event [not] more than [25] sixty calendar days after the [submission of the case to] day on which the application was filed with the Tariff Commission.

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SECTION 22, AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT, AS AMENDED SEC. 22. (a) Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe thi any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into 12United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tel to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, any program or operati undertaken under this title or the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Az as amended, or section 32, Public Law Numbered 320, Seventy-fourth Congres approved August 24, 1935, as amended, or any loan, purchase, or other progra or operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, or any agency ope ating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or prod thereof, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any agricultural commodity or product thereof with respect to which any such program or operation is being undertaken he shall so advise the President, and, if the President agrees that there is reason for such belief, the President shall cause an immediate investigation to be made by the United States Tariff Commission, which shall give precedence to investigations under the section to determine such facts. Such investigation shall be made after de notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties, and shall be conduce! subject to such regulations as the President shall specify. The Tariff Consi sion shall make its report to the President at the earliest possible date but in event more than six months after the day on which it is directed to make à investigation.

(b) If, on the basis of such investigation [and report to him of findings recommendations made in connection therewith,], the Tariff Commission fai and reports to the President [finds] the existence of such facts, he shall, vi thirty days, by proclamation impose such fees not in excess of 50 per centur valorem or such quantitative limitations on any article or articles which ma* entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption as he finds and declar shown by such investigation] the Tariff Commission has found and declared in o report to be necessary in order that the entry of such article or articles will render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, any program operation referred to in subsection (a) of this section, or reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any such agricultura. commodity or product thereof with respect to which any such program or opet tion is being undertaken : Provided, That no proclamation under this section sha impose any limitation on the total quantity of any article or articles which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption which reduces suc permissible total quantity to proportionately less than 50 per centum of the tots quantity of such article or articles which was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during a representative period as determined by the [President] Tariff Commission: And provided further, That in designating article or articles, the [President] Tariff Commission may describe them by phys cal qualities, value, use, or upon such other bases as [he] it shall determine. (c) The fees and limitations imposed by the President by proclamation unle this section and any revocation, suspension, or modification thereof, shall beco effective on such date as shall be therein specified, and such fees shall be treated for administrative purposes and for the purposes of section 32 of Public La Numbered 320, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 24, 1935, as amende as duties imposed by the Tariff Act of 1930, but such fees shall not be considere as duties for the purpose of granting any preferential concession under any inte national obligation of the United States.

(d) After an investigation, [report, finding] findings, and [declaration] a port to the President, in the manner provided in the case of a proclamatio issued pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, any proclamation [or provisi of such proclamation] so issued or any provision thereof may be

(1) suspended or terminated by the President whenever [he] the Tar Commission finds and [proclaims] reports to the President that the cumstances requiring the proclamation or provision thereof no longer existi or [may be]

(2) modified by the President whenever [he] the Tariff Commission finds and [proclaims] reports to the President that changed circumstances require such modification to carry out the purposes of this section. (e) Any [decision] finding of the [President] United States Tariff Commi

sion as to facts under this section shall be final.

(f) No trade agreement or other international agreement heretofore or here after entered into shall be applied in a manner inconsistent with the require

ments of this section.