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 REPRESENTATION, ETC. - SAUDI ARABIA. duty, charge or regulation affecting commerce or navigation now accorded or that may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories and possessions, or by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to any foreign country will become immediately ap- plicable without request and without compensation to the com- merce and navigation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and of the United States of America, its territories and possessions, respectively. ARTICLE IV. The stipulations of this Agreement shall not extend to the treatment which is accorded by the United States of America to the commerce of Cuba under the provisions of the Commercial Convention con- cluded between the United States and Cuba on December 11, 1902, or the provisions of any other commercial convention which here- after may be concluded between the United States of America and Cuba. Such stipulations, moreover, shall not extend to the treatment which is accorded to the commerce between the United States of America and the Panama Canal Zone or any of the dependencies of the United States of America or to the commerce of the dependencies of the United States of America with one another under existing or future laws. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation of the right of either Government to impose, on such terms as it may see fit, prohibitions or restrictions of a sanitary character designed to protect human, animal, or plant life, or regulations for the enforce- ment of police or revenue laws. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to affect existing statutes of either country in relation to the immigration of aliens or the right of either Government to enact such statutes. ARTICLE V. The present stipulations shall become operative on the day of signature hereof and shall remain respectively in effect until the entry in force of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation, or until thirty days after notice of their termination shall have been given by the Government of either country, but should the Government of the United States of America be prevented by future action of its legisla- ture from carrying out the terms of these stipulations, the obligations thereof shall thereupon lapse. ARTICLE VI. The English and Arabic texts of the present agreement shall be of equal validity. Signed at London this seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. ROBERT WORTH BINGHAM [SEAL] [Signature and seal of SHEIKH HAFIZ WAHBAJ rNo.531 1827