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 54 STAT.] VENEZUELA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-NOV. 6, 1939 entered into by our respective Governments for the purpose of regulat- ing the commercial relations between the two countries, pending the entry into force of the Trade Agreement between the United States of America and the United States of Venezuela signed this day: ARTICLE I Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America, enumerated and described in Schedule I annexed to this Agreement and made a part thereof, shall, on their importation into the United States of Venezuela, be exempt from ordinary customs duties in excess of those set forth in the said Schedule. The said articles shall also be exempt from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or exactions, imposed on or in connection with importation, in excess of those imposed on the day of the signature of this Agreement or required to be imposed thereafter under laws of the United States of Vene- zuela in force on the day of the signature of this Agreement. ARTICLE II Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of Venezuela, enumerated and described in Schedule II annexed to this Agreement and made a part thereof, shall, on their importation into the United States of America, be exempt from ordinary customs duties in excess of those set forth and provided for in the said Schedule. The said articles shall also be exempt from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or exactions, imposed on or in connection with importation, in excess of those imposed on the day of the signature of this Agree- ment or required to be imposed thereafter under laws of the United States of America in force on the day of the signature of this Agreement. ARTICLE III The provisions of Articles I and II of this Agreement shall not pre- vent the Governments of the Contracting Parties from imposing at any time on the importation of any article a charge equivalent to an internal tax imposed in respect of a like domestic article or in respect of a commodity from which the imported article has been manufac- tured or produced in whole or in part. ARTICLE IV The United States of America and the United States of Venezuela agree that the notes included in Schedules I and II are hereby given force and effect as integral parts of this Agreement. ARTICLE V Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America or the United States of Venezuela, shall, after importation into the other country, be exempt from all internal taxes, fees, charges or exactions other or higher than those payable on like articles of national or foreign origin. 2377 Imports from United States. Post, p. 2383. Imports from Vene- zuela. Pist, p. 2386. Imposition of charges on linport. Force and effect of notes. Limitation on inter- nal taxes, etc.

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