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COMMITTEE FOR RECIPROCITY INFORMATION

Trade-Agreement Negotiations under the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Submission of Information to the Committee
for Reciprocity Information.

Closing date for Applications to Appear
at Hearing June 27, 1960.

Closing date for Submission of Briefs
June 27, 1960.

Public Hearings Open July 11, 1960.

The Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements has issued on this day a notice of intention to conduct trade agreement negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade with foreign governments which are contracting parties to that agreement and with the Governments of Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and Tunisia, or with instrumentalities of any such foreign governments, and including in each case areas in respect of which such governments or instrumentalities thereof have authority to conduct trade agreement negotiations.

Annexed to the notice of the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements is a list of articles imported into the United States to be considered for possible concessions in the negotiations. A list of export articles on which the United States is considering requesting tariff or other trade concessions from one or more of the governments or instrumentalities referred to above is being issued today in Department of State Fublication No. 6987, pursuant to authorization of the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements.

Fursuant to paragraph 5 of Executive Order 10082 of October 5, 1949, as amended (3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp. pp. 281355), the Committee for Reciprocity Information hereby gives notice that all applications for oral presentation of views in regard to any aspect of the proposed negotiations shall be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information not later than June 27, 1960. The application must indicate the import or export article or articles on which the applicant desires to be heard and an estimate of the time required

for oral presentation. All persons who make application to be heard shall also submit to the Committee their views in writing in regard to the foregoing proposals not later than June 27, 1960. Such communications shall be addressed to "Committee for Reciprocity Information, Tariff Commission Building, Washington 25, D. C." Fifteen copies of written statements, either typed, printed, or duplicated, shall be submitted, of which one copy shall be sworn to.

Written statements submitted to the Committee, except information and business data proffered in confidence, shall be open to inspection by interested persons. Information and business data proffered in confidence shall be submitted on separate pages clearly marked "For Official Use Only of the Committee for Reciprocity Information".

Public hearings will be held before the Committee for Reciprocity Information, at which oral statements will be heard, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on July 11, 1960 in the Hearing Room in the Tariff Commission Building, Eighth and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D. C. Witnesses who make application to be heard will be advised regarding the time and place of their individual appearances. Appearances at hearings before the Committee may be made only by or on behalf of those persons who have filed written statements and who have within the time prescribed made written application for oral presentation of views. Statements made at the public hearings shall be under oath.

Fersons or groups interested in import articles may present to the Committee their views concerning possible tariff concessions by the United States on any article, whether or not included in the list annexed to the notice of intention to negotiate. However, as indicated in the notice of intention to negotiate, no tariff reduction or specific continuance of customs or excise treatment will be considered on any article which is not included in the list annexed to the public notice by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements, unless it is subsequently included in a supplementary public list (or in a prior list in the case of a continued negotiation of compensatory adjustments).

Fersons or groups interested in export articles may present their views regarding any tariff or other trade concessions that might be requested of the foreign governments,

or instrumentalities thereof, with which negotiations are to be conducted, whether or not such articles are included in the list of export articles published today by the Department of State, and may specify the governments or instrumentalities from which such concessions might be requested. Any other matters appropriate to be considered in connection with the proposed negotiations may also be presented.

The United States Tariff Commission has today announced public hearings on the import items appearing in the list annexed to the notice of intention to negotiate to run concurrently with the hearings of the Committee for Reciprocity Information. Oral testimony and written information submitted to the Tariff Commission will be made available to and will be considered by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements. Consequently, interested persons may present oral testimony with regard to import articles included in the foregoing list at the Tariff Commission hearings only, but they may, if they wish, appear also before the Committee for Reciprocity Information.

Copies of the list of import articles attached to the notice of intention to negotiate being issued by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements and of the list of export articles being issued by the Department of State may be obtained from the Committee for Reciprocity Information at the address designated above and may be inspected at the field offices of the Department of Commerce.

By direction of the Committee for Reciprocity Information this 27th day of May, 1960.

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U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1960 O-522149 (89)

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