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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 1947
EXECUTIVE ORDER
#9832
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I wish to reaffirm the faith of this Administration in
the Cordell Hull Reciprocal Trade Agreements Program which became
effective in 1934 and which has been extended by Congress all these
years. This program is based on the principle of negotiation be-
tween this and other countries for the reduction of trade rc-
strictions and elimination of discriminations on a mutually ad-
vantagoous basis; for each concession grated by the United States,
a corresponding concession is received. This program has become
an integral part of our foreign policy, and has widespread support
from industry, labor and farmers.
I an today issuing an Executive Order which fornalizos
and makes mandatory certain existing trade agreements procedures
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and which, in addition, makes some procedural changes. I wish
to
make clear that the provisions of the order do not deviate from
the traditional Cordell Hull principles. They simply make assurance
doubly sure that American interests will be properly safeguarded.
This order is the result of conversations between Under
Secretaries of State Acheson and Clayton and Senators Vandenberg
and Millikin, and has been carefully considered by the inter-departmental
trado agreements organization. This organization is composed of
representatives of the Departments of State, War, Navy, Treasury,
Agriculture and Commerce, and the Tariff Commission.
The United States is preparing to meet with eighteen other
nations in Geneva on the tenth of April to negotiate on policies
affecting world trade. We plan to complete the draft of a charter
establishing common principles of world trade policy and setting
up an international trade organization. We also shall negotiate
the reduction of tariffs, the removal of other barriers to trade,
and the elimination of discriminatory practices. I am very happy
that Senators Vandenberg and Millikin agree that we should go for-
ward with the Geneva negotiations.
All of us must now recognize that bi-partisan support of
our foreign economic policy, as well as of our foreign policy in
general, is essential. If we are to succeed in our efforts,
through the United Nations, to organize the world for peace, we
cannot refuse our cooperation where economic questions are in-
volved. Here, as elsewhere in our foreign relations, we must
abandon partisanship and unite in our support of a foreign policy
that serves the interests of the nation as a whole.