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 54STAT.] VENEZUELA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-NOV. 6, 1939 observance of customs formalities and the application of sanitary laws and regulations for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health. If there should be disagreement with respect to the applica- tion of said sanitary laws and regulations there shall be established, upon the request of either of the Contracting Parties, a committee of experts on which both Governments shall be represented. The committee, after considering the matter, shall submit its report to both Governments. ARTICLE XIV The provisions of this Agreement relating to the treatment to be accorded by the United States of America and the United States of Venezuela, respectively, to the commerce of the other country shall apply, on the part of the United States of America, to the continental territory of the United States of America and such of its territories and possessions as are included in its customs territory. The provi- sions of this Agreement relating to most-favored-nation treatment shall apply to all territories under the sovereignty or authority of the United States of America, other than the Panama Canal Zone. ARTICLE XV The provisions of this Agreement do not extend to: (a) The advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America or the United States of Venezuela to adjacent countries in order to facilitate frontier traffic, or advantages resulting from a customs union to which either the United States of America or the United States of Venezuela may become a party so long as such advantages are not extended to any other country; (b) The advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba, irrespective of any change in the political status of any of the territories or possessions of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of Venezuela reserves the right to apply, with respect to articles imported into the United States of Venezuela from the Antilles not included in the customs territory of the United States of America, the special surtax applicable to such articles under existing Venezuelan law. ARTICLE XVI Subject to the requirement that, under like circumstances and con- ditions, there shall be no arbitrary discrimination by either country against the other country in favor of any third country, and without prejudice to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article XIII, the provisions of this Agreement shall not extend to prohibitions or restrictions (1) imposed on moral or humanitarian grounds; (2) de- 2381 Scope of Agreement. Trade with adjacent countries. U. S. trade with its possessions, Canal Zone, or Cuba. Venezuelan imports from the Antilles. Provisions not ex- tended to certain pro- hibitions, etc.

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