Government and will be exempt from all customs duties or imposts of any kind whatever in Brazil. 3. During the stay of the Mission in Brazil, the Government of Brazil will grant, upon a request made through the Chief of the Mission, free entry for articles of personal and family use; families being construed as parents, wives, children, sisters, and single daughters. 4. The members of the Mission who remain in Brazil for a longer period than two years will be entitled to the payment of the expenses of transportation for the return of themselves and their families. The expenses of transportation above referred to will cover first-class accommodation for the families of officers and second-class accommodation for the families of chief petty officers. 5. After two years' service with the Mission, each member thereof shall be entitled to leave of absence on full pay for four months, inclusive of travel time, with the privilege of leaving Brazil. Leaves of absence of members of the Mission will be so arranged with the Chief of the Mission that the least inconvenience practicable will be caused thereby to the interests of the Brazilian Navy. 6. Any member of the Mission who returns to the United States after a service of two years shall receive full pay and allowances up to the date of his arrival in New York and, in addition thereto, expenses of travel and transportation of effects from Rio de Janeiro to New York. 7. No member who may be detached from duty with the Mission upon his own request, prior to his service therewith of two years, shall be entitled to travel expenses and transportation of effects at the expense of the Brazilian Government. 8. If any member of the Mission is obliged by illness to discontinue service with the Mission, the Brazilian Government will bear the expenses of his return to the United States of America as above stipulated for members detached after two years' service. 9. Members of the Mission who may become ill, will, if necessary in the judgment of the Chief of the Mission, be cared for by the Brazilian Government in such hospital as the Chief of the Mission may, after consultation with the Brazilian authorities, consider suitable. 10. If a member of the Mission, or one of his family, should die in Brazil, the Brazilian Government will transport the body to such place in the United States of America as the family of the deceased may designate. In case the deceased should be a member of the Mission, the Brazilian Government will provide for the transportation expenses of the family of the deceased to New York, as provided for in paragraph 6 of this article. 11. In case of travel performed by any member of the Mission on official duty, such member shall receive, while engaged therein, full pay and allowance, together with transportation and allowance equivalent to that 219-919-70-54 granted to the personnel of the Brazilian Navy of corresponding rank and rating in like circumstances. 12. The Chief of the Mission will be provided with an orderly for his personal services. Such other orderlies will be provided as may be determined upon by agreement with the Brazilian Minister of Marine and the Chief of the Mission. 13. The Chief of the Mission will be provided with a suitable boat, fully manned and equipped, for his personal use, and there shall also be provided an additional boat for official use of the other members of the Mission in the performance of their duty. 14. The Mission shall be furnished with three automobiles with a chauffeur for each; one for the personal use of the Chief of the Mission, and two to be assigned at his discretion for the use of the other officers of the Mission for official duties. The expense of upkeep, repair and maintenance of these machines will be an obligation of the Brazilian Government. 15. Suitable offices and equipment will be provided by the Brazilian Government for the members of the Mission. 16. The officers of the Mission will be accorded rights and privileges habitually granted to diplomatic representatives accredited to Brazil and of corresponding rank, except with regard to rights of importation already covered in a preceding clause. 17. Each officer of the Mission will have as assistant or collaborator in all of his functions a Brazilian officer appointed annually by the Minister of Marine. 18. If cancellation of this contract be effected by the request of the United States of America, all expenses of the return of the Mission and the families thereof to the United States shall be borne by that Government. In case the cancellation should be effected on the initiative of the Government of Brazil, that Government will bear the costs of the returning of the Mission and the families thereof to the United States of America, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6 of this article, and in addition thereto each member of the Mission shall be paid by the Brazilian Government an indemnity equal in amount to the pay and allowances for one year, as set forth in paragraph 1 of this article. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized thereto, have signed this agreement in duplicate in the English and Portuguese languages, at Washington, this 6th day of November, 1922. MOST-FAVORED-NATION TREATMENT IN CUSTOMS MATTERS Exchange of notes at Washington October 18, 1923 Entered into force October 18, 1923 Supplanted January 1, 1936, by agreement of February 2, 19351 Treaty Series 672 The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Ambassador EXCELLENCY: DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON, October 18, 1923 I have the honor to communicate to Your Excellency my understanding of the views developed by the conversations which have recently taken place between the Governments of the United States and Brazil at Washington and Rio de Janeiro with reference to the treatment which shall be accorded by each country to the commerce of the other. The conversations between the two Governments have disclosed a mutual understanding which is that in respect to customs and other duties and charges affecting importations of the products and manufactures of the United States into Brazil and of Brazil into the United States, each country will accord to the other unconditional most-favored-nation treatment, with the exception, however, of the special treatment which the United States. accords or hereafter may accord to Cuba, and of the commerce between the United States and its dependencies and the Panama Canal Zone. The true meaning and effect of this engagement is that, excepting only the special arrangements mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the natural, agricultural and manufactured products of the United States and Brazil will pay on their importation into the other country the lowest rates of duty collectible at the time of such importation on articles of the same kind when imported from any other country, and it is understood that, with the above mentioned exceptions, every decrease of duty now accorded or which hereafter may be accorded by the United States or Brazil by law, proclamation, decree, or commercial treaty or agreement to the products of any third power 1EAS 82, post, p. 849. will become immediately applicable without request and without compensation to the products of Brazil and the United States, respectively, on their importation into the other country. It is the purpose of the United States and Brazil and it is herein expressly declared that the provisions of this arrangement shall relate only to duties and charges affecting importations of merchandise and that nothing contained herein shall be construed to restrict the right of the United States and Brazil to impose, on such terms as they may see fit, prohibitions or restrictions of a sanitary character designed to protect human, animal, or plant life, or regulations for the enforcement of police or revenue laws. I shall be glad to have your confirmation of the accord thus reached. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. CHARLES E. HUGHES I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of today's date, communicating to me your understanding of the views developed by the conversations which have recently taken place between the Governments of Brazil and the United States at Rio de Janeiro and Washington with reference to the treatment which shall be accorded by each country to the commerce of the other. I am happy to be able to confirm to you, under instructions from my Government, your Excellency's understanding of the said views as set forth in the following terms: [For terms of understanding, see second, third, and fourth paragraphs of U.S. note, above.] I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. His Excellency Mr. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Secretary of State of the United States of America A. DE ALENCAR NAVAL MISSION Agreement signed at Washington May 26, 1927, supplementing agreement of November 6, 1922, as extended 1 Entered into force May 26, 1927 1 Expired November 6, 1930 Department of State files SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONTRACT OF THE NAVAL MISSION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN BRAZIL In accordance with Section 2 of Article 2 of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the United States of Brazil constituting the Naval Mission in Brazil, an additional officer of the rank of Lieutenant or Lieutenant-Commander may be assigned for duty with the United States Naval Mission to Brazil and the number of Chief Petty officers be reduced by one, that officer to possess the same status rights and privileges as the officers detailed in the original contract. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States of America and Ambassador of Brazil to the United States of America, duly authorized by their respective Governments, give hereby full force to this supplement to the original contract. Made in Washington, in two copies, each containing the text in English and in Portuguese, on the 26th day of May of 1927. FRANK B. Kellogg Secretary of State of the United States of America Ambassador of Brazil to the United States of America 1TS 627-A, ante, p. 823. |