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 54 STAT.] EGYPT-PARCEL POST July 17,1939 Sept. 13, 1939 one country to the other. The reduction or increase shall remain in force for at least one year. 4. In respect of insured parcels, the Post Office of the country of origin shall allow to the Post Office of the country of destination for land service a rate of 19 gold centimes for each insured parcel. If the country of destination provides a sea service, the dispatching office shall allow an additional rate of 20 gold centimes for each insured parcel. ARTICLE 10. Accounting. 1. At the end of each quarter, each Administration makes up an account on the basis of the parcel bills. 2. These accounts shall be submitted to the examination of the corresponding Administration in the course of the month following the quarter to which they relate. 3. The recapitulation, transmission, examination, and acceptance of these accounts must not be delayed and the payment of the balance shall take place, at the latest, at the expiration of the follow- ing quarter. 4. The balance resulting from adjustment of the accounts between the two Administrations is paid by a sight draft drawn on New York, or by some other means mutually agreed upon by correspondence. The expenses of payment are chargeable to the debtor Administration. ARTICLE 11. Miscellaneous notifications. 1837 Accounting. The Administrations shall communicate to each other a summary Notifcations. of the provisions of their laws or regulations applicable to the parcels exchanged between the two contracting countries, and other items necessary for carrying out the exchange of parcels. These Regulations shall come into operation on the day on which ,effectve date; du- the Parcel Post Agreement comes into force and shall have the same duration as the Agreement. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington, the 13th day of Signatures September 1939 and at Cairo, the 17th day of July 1939. [SEAL] JAMES A FARLEY The Postmaster General of the United States of America. [SEAL] M WAGUTH The Acting Postmaster General of Egypt. The foregoing Agreement between Egypt and the United States of America concerning the exchange of parcel post and the Regula- tions of Execution thereof have been negotiated and concluded with my advice and consent and they are hereby approved and ratified. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. [sEALI] FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, September 18, 1939. Approval and ratifi- cation.

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