Pursuant to Section 4 of the Trade Agreements Act, approved June 12, 1934, as amended, (48 Stat. 945, ch. 474, Public Law 307, 81st Cong. and to paragraph 4 of Executive Order 10082 of October 5, 1949 (14 F.R. 6105), notice is hereby given by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements of intention to conduct trade-agreement negotiations with the Republic of Cuba. This notice is the second notice supplementary to the notice by the Committee dated April 11, 1950, published April 14, 1950, (15 F.R. 2114). There is annexed here to a list of articles imported into the United States to be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or specific continuance of existing customs or excise treatment in proposed tradeagreement negotiations with the Republic of Cuba and with any of the countries with which tradeagreement negotiations were proposed in the notice of April 11, 1950, published April 14, 1950, viz., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Luxemburg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Turkey, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and in the supplementary notice of May 15, 1950, viz., Denmark, the Dominican Republic, India, Indonesia, Itely, and Sweden. Articles included in the list annexed to the Committee's notice of April 11, 1950, published April 14, 1950, and in the supplementary notice of May 15, 1950, may be considered also in negotiations with Cuba. 1 to this notice with respect to which the corresponding product of Cuba is subject to preferential treatment, the negotiations with any country other than Cuba 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. No article will be considered in the negotiations for possible modification of duties or other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or specific continuance of existing customs or excise treatment unless it is included, specifically or by reference, in the list annexed to the notice by the Committee of April 11, 1950, published April 14, 1950, in the list annexed to the supplementary notice of May 15, 1950, or in the annexed list, or unless it is subsequently included in a supplementary public list. No duty or import tax imposed under a paragraph or section of the Tariff Act or Internal Revenue Code other than the paragraph or section listed with respect to such article will be considered for a possible decrease, although an additional or separate duty on an article included in the annexed list which is imposed under a paragraph or section other than that listed may be bound against increase as an assurance that the concession under the listed paragraph will not be nullified. Persons interested in export items may present their views regarding any tariff (including preferential tariff) or other concessions that might be requested of the Republic of Cuba. Pursuant to Section 4 of the Trade Agreements Act, as amended, and Faragraph 5 of Executive Order 10082 of October 5, 1949, information and views as to any aspect of the proposals announced in this notice may be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information in accordance with the announcement of this date issued by that Committee. 2 a notice (15 F.R. 2114) stating the location and availability of tariff and commodity information pertinent to the pending negotiations. By direction of the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements this 17th day of August, 1950. /s/ CARL D. CORSE Chairman Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements 4 WHICH IT IS PROPOSED SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN The following list contains descriptions of articles imported into the United States which it is proposed should be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or specific continuance of existing customs or excise treatment in the trade-agreement negotiations which are proposed with the countries specified in the foregoing public notice. For the purpose of facilitating identification of the articles listed, reference is made in the list to the paragraph numbers of the tariff schedules in the Tariff Act of 1930. The descriptive phraseology is frequently limited to a narrower scope than that covered by the cited paragraph. In such cases only the articles covered by the descriptive phraseology of the list will come under consideration for negotiation. In the event that an article which as of January 1, 1950 was regarded as classifiable under a description included in the list is excluded therefrom by judicial decision or otherwise prior to the inclusion of such description in a trade agreement, the list will nevertheless be considered as including such article. 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. Para. 17 Mercurial preparations (other than calomel, corrosive sublimate, and red mercuric oxide). 245 28 54 66 67 92 Flavoring extracts, natural or synthetic (b) Synthetic indigo "Colour Index No. 1177" Enamel paints, consisting of pigments or Barytes ore, whether crude or unmanufactured SCHEDULE 2. EARTHS, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASSWARE (e) Manufactures of which plaster of Paris is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for. 205 211 Earthenware and crockery ware composed of 5 |