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 CO~{MERCIAL RELATIONS-CZECHOSLOVAKIA. accord fair and equitable treatment to the commerce of the other country in respect of the allotment among exporting countries of the total quantity, as originally established or as changed in any manner, of any such article permitted to be imported or sold or permitted to be imported or sold at such lower duty or charge. 3675 4. The advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be Exemptions. accorded by the United States of America or the Czechoslovak Republic to adjacent countries in order to facilitate frontier traffic, and advantages resulting from a customs union to which either the United States of America or the Czechoslovak Republic may become a party, shall be excepted from the operation of this Agreement. The Czechoslovak Government will not invoke the provisions of this Agreement to obtain the advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories and possessions, the Philippine Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba. The United States will not invoke the provisions of the present temporary Agreement to obtain the advantages which have been or may be accorded by the Czechoslovak Republic to Austria or Hungary. The United States will refrain from invoking the present temporary Agreement to obtain advantages which the Czechoslovak Republic is according at present to the commerce of Yugoslavia and Rumania, pending a satisfactory agreement with respect to this matter in con- nection with a comprehensive trade Agreement between the two countries. 5. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation Rights reserved. of the right of either country to impose on such terms as it may see fit prohibitions or restrictions (1) relating to public security; (2) imposed on moral or humanitarian grounds; (3) designed to protect human, animal, or plant life; (4) relating to prison-made goods; (5) relating to the enforcement of police or revenue laws; or (6) relating to the control of the export or sale for export of arms, munitions, or implements of war, and, in exceptional circumstances, all other military supplies. . 6. The present Agreement shall become operative on the first day duTarmstroBot (talk) 18:41, 19 November 2014 (UTC).ve date and of May, 1935, and shall continue in force until superseded by a more comprehensive trade agreement or by a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation, or until denounced by either country by advance notice of not less than thirty days. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. The Honorable Dr. FERDINAND VEVERKA, Minister oj Ozechoslovakia. CORDELL HULL