submit recommendations. These provisions regarding consultation are in general similar to those included in the trade agreement recently concluded between the United States and Brazil. The convention fulfills resolution no. XXVIII adopted by the Fourth Pan American Commercial Conference held in Washington in October 1931, which reads as follows: "The Fourth Pan American Commercial Conference: "Resolves: "1. To acknowledge as fundamental principles that sanitary police regulations effective at the present time, or enacted in the future to regulate the inter-American traffic of vegetable and animal products, must not have in their practical application the character of protec tive customs measures. "2. That in the application of all restrictions of a sanitary nature in the inter-American traffic of animal and vegetable products, in order to determine the origin of the product, the term 'infected zones' be used instead of infected countries'; upon condition that the country of origin give all necessary facilities to determine its sanitary condition. "3. To recommend to the American countries the negotiation of agreements for the regulation of the foregoing principles." The development of agriculture and stock-raising and of international trade in plant and animal products have created grave sanitary problems which require international cooperation for their solution. Sanitary measures have in certain cases, because of the manner of their application, created unnecessary injury to trade and have engendered international ill will. This convention seeks to establish useful cooperation in sanitary matters between the two countries. While it is also designed to prevent misunderstandings and avoidable injury to trade arising from the application of sanitary measures, it in no way weakens the sovereign right of either country to impose restrictive measures necessary in its judgment to protect its agricultural and livestock industries. The convention will not come into force until after the necessary legislative action has been taken in both countries. FIFTH TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS The Government of Queensland, Australia, on behalf of the Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, the Australian Sugar Producers' Association, and the Queensland Cane Growers' Council, has issued an invitation for official participation in the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International Society of Sugar Technologists to be held at Brisbane from August 27 to September 3, 1935. The invitation has been accepted by this Government and the following persons have been designated as official delegates: Dr. E. W. Brandes, Head, Division of Sugar Plant Investiga- The Fourth Triennial Conference of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists was held in Puerto Rico in 1932. AVIATION CONVENTION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION BY AIR (TREATY SERIES, No. 876)1 Free City of Danzig The Polish Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State by a note dated May 7, 1935, that the adherence by Poland, on behalf of the Free City of Danzig, to the convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international transportation by air, signed at Warsaw October 12, 1929, was registered with the Polish Government on March 18, 1935. The adherence will become effective 90 days after the date of the registration. The convention has been ratified by the following countries: Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, including Netherland India, Surinam, and Curaçao, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Switzerland, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Yugoslavia. The convention has been adhered to by the United States of America, British Dependencies, Free City of Danzig, India, Liechtenstein, and Mexico. COMMERCE FOREIGN-TRADE AGREEMENTS 3 PUBLIC NOTICES AND PRESENTATION OF VIEWS IN CONNECTION WITH FOREIGN-TRADE AGREEMENTS France-French Colonies, Dependencies, and Protectorates Other than Morocco Pursuant to section 4 of an act of Congress approved June 12, 1934, entitled "An Act to Amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (Trade Agreements Act), and Executive Order No. 6750 of June 27, 1934, a notice was issued by this Government on April 30, 1935, of its intention to negotiate a trade agreement with the Government of France and its colonies, dependencies, and protectorates other than Morocco. A table showing the dates of the issuance of notices of intention to negotiate trade agreements with various foreign governments and the dates on which written statements and oral presentation of views may be made to the United States Tariff Commission by persons interested in the proposed agreements, is given below. RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELGO-LUXEMBURG ECONOMIC UNION (EXECUTIVE AGREEMENT SERIES, NO. 75)3 There is published below a communication addressed by the President to the Secretary of the Treasury on May 3, 1935, relating to the application of the rates of duty proclaimed in the trade agree 3 See Bulletin No. 67, April 1935, p. 21. 4 Treasury Decisions, vol. 67, no. 20, May 16, 1935, p. 6. ment with the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union to products of France including Algeria. "MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: "With reference to my letter of April 1, 1935, directing that the duties proclaimed in connection with the trade agreement signed on February 27, 1935, with the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union be applied only to the products of specified countries, you will please make the following changes in the list of countries contained therein and cause this direction to be published in an early issue of the weekly Treasury Decisions: "In numbered section 1, add 'France (including Algeria)'. In numbered section 3, change France and its colonies, dependencies, protectorates, and mandated territories' to read French colonies, dependencies, protectorates, and mandated territories'. "Sincerely yours, "FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT" The letter of April 1, 1935, referred to by the President was published on page 28 of Bulletin No. 67, April 1935. RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI (EXECUTIVE AGREEMENT SERIES, NO. 78)5 The reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Haiti signed March 28, 1935, was proclaimed by the President of Haiti on April 29, 1935, and by the President of the United States on May 4, 1935. In accordance with the provisions of article XIV of the agreement it will enter into force 30 days after the date of the later proclamation, i. e., on June 3, 1935. The agreement will shortly be printed as Executive Agreement Series, No. 78. The President's proclamation is as follows: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is provided in the Tariff Act of 1930 of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934, entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), as follows: "Sec. 350. (a) For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production "See Bulletin No. 66, March 1935, p. 8. which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be promoted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time "(1) To enter into foreign trade agreements with foreign governments or instrumentalities thereof; and “(2) To proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into hereunder. No proclamation shall be made increasing or decreasing by more than 50 per centum any existing rate of duty or transferring any article between the dutiable and free lists. The proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall apply to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, whether imported directly, or indirectly: Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any country because of its discriminatory treatment of American commerce or because of other acts or policies which in his opinion tend to defeat the purposes set forth in this section; and the proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall be in effect from and after such time as is specified in the proclamation. The President may at any time terminate any such proclamation in whole or in part." WHEREAS, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and Haiti are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, will be promoted by a foreign trade agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Haiti; WHEREAS, reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such foreign trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such Agreement were received and considered; WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into a foreign trade agreement, through my duly empowered plenipotentiary on March 28, 1935, with the President of the Republic of Haiti, through his duly empowered plenipotentiary, which Agreement, in the English and French languages, including two Schedules annexed thereto, is in words and figures as follows: [Here follows the text of the agreement and schedules I and II.] WHEREAS it is provided in the said Agreement that the Agreement shall come into force on the thirtieth day following proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and the President of the Republic of Haiti, or, should the proclamations be issued on different days, on the thirtieth day following the date of the later in time of such proclamations; WHEREAS the said Agreement was proclaimed by the President of the Republic of Haiti on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and the Agreement will come into full force on the thirtieth day following the date of this my proclamation, that is to say, on the third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five; WHEREAS Such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuances of existing customs and excise treatment as are set |