Note 331 — Chapter VI · REGULATION OF PROPERTY
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Proclamation No. 2413, 54 Stat. 2712, July 2, 1940, delegating to an Administrator of Export Control his statutory power to prohibit unlicensed export from the United States of basic materials and products. The list included aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fiber, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, tolnol, tungsten, vanadium and wool, in addition to specified chemicals, products, and machine tools.
Proclamation No. 2417, 54 Stat. 2726, July 26, 1940, added petroleum products, tetraethyl lead, and iron and steel scrap to the foregoing.
Proclamations No. 2423, 54 Stat. 2737, September 12, 1940; 2453, 55 Stat. 1607, January 10, 1941; 2428, 54 Stat. 2743, September 30, 1940; 2449, 54 Stat. 2768, December 10, 1940; 2451, 54 Stat. 2770, December 20, 1940; 2456, 55 Stat. 1610, February 4, 1941; 2460, 55 Stat. 1614, February 25, 1941; 2461, 55 Stat. 1615, February 25, 1941; 2463, 55 Stat. 1617, March 4, 1941; 2464, 55 Stat. 1618, March 4, 1941; 2465, 55 Stat. 1619, March 4, 1941; 2468, 55 Stat. 1622, March 27, 1941; 2475, 55 Stat. 1629, April 14, 1941; 2476, 55 Stat. 1630, April 4, 1941; 2482, 55 Stat. 1639, May 10, 1941; 2497, 55 Stat. 1657, July 17, 1941, considerably extended the list of materials and products which might not be exported without license.
All of the foregoing Proclamations were issued under the Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense of the United States.