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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. WHEEAS, Article VI of the Trade Agreement between the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, entered into 50stat. 161 on December 20, 1935, 2 pursuant to the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and now in force between the two countries, provides in part as follows: 7. If the Government of the United States of America estab- lishes or maintains any form of quantitative restriction or control of the importation or sale of any article in which the Kingdom of the Netherlands has an interest, or imposes a lower duty or charge on the importation or sale of a specified quantity of any such article than the duty or charge imposed on importations in excess of such quantity, the Government of the United States of Amer- ica will allot to the Kingdom of the Netherlands a share of the total quantity of such article permitted to be imported or sold, or permitted to be imported or sold at such lower duty or charge, during a specified period, equivalent to the proportion of the total importation of such article which the Kingdom of the Netherlands supplied in a basic period prior to the imposition of such quan- titative restriction on such article, unless it is mutually agreed to dispense with such allotment. WHEREAS, a Trade Agreement was entered into between the United 49 tat. 76. States of America and the Republic of Colombia on September 13, 1935,3 pursuant to the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and is now in force between the two countries; WHEREAS, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United States of Venezuela, and the Republic of Colombia have an interest in the importation into the United States of America of crude petroleum, topped crude petroleum, and fuel oil derived from petroleum includ- ing fuel oil known as gas oil; WHEREAS, the allocation to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (in- cluding its overseas territories), to the United States of Venezuela and to the Republic of Colombia, of shares of the total quantity of such petroleum and fuel oil entitled to a reduction in the rate of im- Ante. p. 387. port tax by virtue of the said item 3422 of Schedule II annexed to the said modus vivendi and definitive agreement is required and appro- priate, during the period from December 16, 1939 to December 31, 1940, inclusive, to carry out the said trade agreement of December 20, 1935 between the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the said modus vivendi and definitive agreement of November 6,1939 between the United States of America and the United States of Venezuela and the said trade agreement of September 13, 1935 between the United States of America and the Republic of Colombia; Findri gs WmHERA, I find that imports for consumption into the United States of America from all countries, of such petroleum and fuel oil during the period from January 1, 1939 to October 31, 1939, inclusive, were representative of the trade in such articles; '[Executive Agreement Series No. 100.] I[EIxecutive Agreement Series No. 89.] 2454

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