Harry Truman: “I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me…”

“I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim that, of the total aggregate quantity of crude petroleum, topped crude petroleum, and fuel oil derived from petroleum including fuel oil known as gas oil, entitled, during the calendar year 1951 to a reduction in the rate of import tax by virtue of the said item 3422 of Schedule II of the said definitive trade agreement with Venezuela, no more than 59.4 per centum shall be the produce or manufacture of the United States of Venezuela, nor more than 18.7 per centum, the produce or manufacture of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its overseas territories), nor more than 21.9 per centum, the produce or manufacture of other foreign countries.”