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Proclamation No. 2468, Signed by President Roosevelt, March 27, 194153

Whereas section 6 of the act of Congress entitled “An Act To expedite the strengthening of the national defense”, approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows:

[Here follows the text of the act as quoted in proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940, printed on page 211.]

Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on and after April 15, 1941, the following-described articles and materials shall not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as provided for in Proclamation 2413 of July 2, 1940, entitled “Administration of section 6 of the act entitled ‘An Act To expedite the strengthening of the national defense’ approved July 2, 1940”:

1.
Animal, fish and marine mammal oils, fats and greases, edible and inedible.
2.
Vegetable oils and fats, edible and inedible.
3.
Vegetable oilseeds, and vegetable and other oil-bearing raw materials.
4.
Fatty acids.
5.
Bristles.
6.
Nux vomica.
7.
Nylon.
8.
Kapok.
9.
Purified wood pulp containing 80% or more alphacellulose.
10.
Cork.
11.
Carbon electrodes.
12.
Petrolatum.
13.
Alkyd resins.
14.
Explosives, in addition to those listed in Proclamation 2237 of May 1, 1937.
15.
Detonators and blasting caps.
16.
Napthalene.
17.
Phenol.
18.
Aniline.
19.
Phthalic anhydride.
20.
Dibutyl phthalate.
21.
Diethyl phthalate.
22.
Dipropylphthalate.
23.
Omega Chloroacetophenone.
24.
Styrene.
25.
Nitroderivatives of benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, and phenols in addition to those specified in the proclamation of May 1, 1937.
26.
Strychnine and salts thereof.
27.
Polymers and copolymers of butadiene, acrylonitrile, butylene, chloroprene, styrene, vinylidene, chloride, and synthetic rubber-like compounds, fabricated or unfabricated.
28.
Chloropicrin.
29.
Tartaric acid.
30.
Rochelle salts.
31.
Cuprous oxide.
32.
Acetic aldehyde.
33.
Pentaerythrite.
34.
Formaldehyde.
35.
Nitroguanidine.
36.
Guanidine nitrate.
37.
Dicyanodiamide.
38.
Monochloroacetic acid.
39.
Chloroacetyl chloride.
40.
Thiodiglycol.
41.
Ethylene chlorhydrine.
42.
Hexamethylene tetramine.
43.
Acrylonitrile.
44.
Butadiene.
45.
Butylene.
46.
Chloroprene.
47.
Sodium chlorate.
48.
Sulphur chlorides.
49.
Arsenic trichloride.
50.
Vinylidene chloride.
51.
Iodine.

Item (6) of Proclamation 2463 of March 4, 1941, is superseded by item 4 of this proclamation.

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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

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Done at the city of Washington this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

By the President:
Sumner Welles
Acting Secretary of State

  1. Reprinted from Department of State, Bulletin, March 29, 1941 (vol. iv, No. 92), p. 378.↩