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 1872 Plenipotentiaries. Imports from Unit- ed States. Post, p. 1878. Imports from Turk- ish Republic. Post, p. 1880. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. advantages for the promotion of trade, have decided to conclude a Trade Agreement and for that purpose have appointed their Pleni- potentiaries as follows: The President of the United States of America: Mr. John V. A. MacMurray, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Turkish Republic, and Mr. Robert F. Kelley, First Secretary of Embassy of the United States of America; and The President of the Turkish Republic: Mr. iSukrii Saracoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic, and Mr. Numan Menemencioglu, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Who, after communicating to each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles: ARTICLE 1 Natural or manufactured products originating in the United States of America, enumerated and described in Schedule I annexed to this Agreement, shall, on their importation into the territory of the Turkish Republic, be accorded the tariff reductions provided for in the said Schedule. In the event that the Government of the Turkish Republic should increase the duties provided for in the said Schedule, such increased duties shall not be applied to the said products until two months after the date of their promulgation. If before the expiration of the aforesaid period of two months an agreement between the two Governments has not been reached with respect to such compensatory modifications of this Agreement as may be deemed appropriate, the Government of the United States of America shall be free within fifteen days after the date of the appli- cation of such increased duties to terminate this Agreement in its entirety on thirty days' written notice. ARTICLE 2 Natural or manufactured products originating in the Turkish Re- public, enumerated and described in Schedule II annexed to this Agreement, 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, subject to the con- ditions therein set out. The said products 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 America in force on the day of the signature of this Agreement.

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