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 2516 Proclamation. IMPORT AND EXPORT PROHIBITIONS. November 8.1927. January ~O. 1U2. , -; . Japan, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Rumania, Switzer- land and Yugoslavia, was signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Paris on December 20, 1929, as well as by the plenipotentiaries of Germany and Norway, the ratifications of which two Governments are regarded, exceptionally, as having the same effect as if they had been deposited before September 30, 1929; AND WHEREAS the said protoc~l was signed on the part of the United States of America by my authority in conformity with the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and is approved by me; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said convention and protocol, the said supplementary agreement and protocol, and the said protocol of December 20, 1929, to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, subject to the understanding that the provision of Section VI of the protocol to the convention excepting from the scope of the convention prohibitions or restrictions applying to prison-ma.de goods, includes goods the products of forced or slave labor however employed, and to the declaration made in writing by the plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the time of the signature of the convention and protocol thereto, as follows: " At the moment of signing the international convention for the abolition of import and export prohibitions and restrictions, and the protocol to the conven- tion, I, the undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Switzerland duly empowered to sign the said con- vention and protocol, declare, pursuant to instructions from my Government, that the United States, in accordance with article 10 of the convention, does not. assume any obligation in respect of the Philippine Islands and that I sign the convention and protocol subject to the following reservations and conditions with respect to the United States of America: "(A) That prohibitions or restrictions designed to extend to exported products the regime established within the country in respect of the pro- duction of, trade in, and transport and consumption of such products in domestic commerce are not prohibited by the said convention; provided, however, that such prohibitions or restrictions shall not be applied in such a manner 8.8 to constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination between foreign countries or a disguised restriction on international trade. "(B) That the said convention affects neither the tariff systems nor the treaty-making methods of the participating countries nor the measures taken to insure the application thereof, including measures to counteract dumping, bounties, subsidies, unfair methods, or acts in foreign trade, undervaluation or discrimination." IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: J P COTTON Acting Secretary of State.