The Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements has issued on this day a notice of intention to conduct trade-agreement negotiations with the following countries including in each case areas in respect of which the country has authority to conduct trade-agreement negotiations: Denmark, the Dominican Republic, India, Indonesia, Italy, and Sweden.

Annexed to the notice by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements is a list of articles imported into the United States to be considered for possible trade-agreement negotiations supplementary to the list annexed to the notice by that Committee of April 11, 1950 published April 14, 1950 (15 F.R. 2114). Articles in either list may be considered for negotiation with the above countries and with the countries named in the notice published April 14, 1950.

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ments has also arnounced in such notice that, in the case of each article in the list with respect to which the corresponding product of Cuba is subject to preferential treatment, the negotiations referred to will involve the elimination, reduction, or continuation of the preference, perhaps with an adjustment or specification of the rate applicable to the product of Cuba.

The Committee for Reciprocity Information hereby gives notice that all applications for oral presentation of views in regard to the foregoing proposals, which must indicate the product or products on which the individuals or groups desire to be heard, shall be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information not later than 12:00 noon, June 5, 1950, and all information and views in writing in regard to the foregoing proposals shall be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information not later than 12:00 noon, June 12, 1950.

Such communications shall be addressed to "The Chairman, Committee for Reciprocity Information, Tariff Commission Building, Washington 25, D. C.". Ten copies of written statements, either typed, printed, or duplicated shall be submitted, of which one copy shall be sworn to.

Public hearings will be held before the Committee for Reciprocity Information, at which oral statements will be heard. The first hearing will be at 10:00 a.m. on June 19, 1950, in the Hearing Room in the Tariff Commission Building, 7th and E Streets, N.W., Washington 25, D. C. Witnesses who make application to be heard will be advised regarding the time and place of their individual appearAppearances 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.

ances.

Persons or groups interested in import products may present to the Committee their views concerning possible tariff concessions by the United States on any product, whether or not included in the list annexed to the notice of intention to negotiate. However, as indicated in the notice of intention to

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any product which is not included in the list annexed to the public notice by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements of April 11, 1950 published April 14, 1950 (15 F.R. 2114), the list annexed to the notice issued by said Committee on this date, or in a supplementary public list.

Persons interested in export items may present their views regarding any tariff (including preferential tariff) or other concessions that might be requested of Denmark, the Dominican Republic, India, Indonesia, Italy, and Sweden.

Copies of the list attached to the notice of intention to negotiate 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. The United States Tariff Commission has issued a notice (15 F.R. 2114) stating the location and availability of tariff and commodity information pertinent to the pending negotiations announced herein.

By direction of the Committee for Reciprocity Information this 15th day of May, 1950.

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