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 54 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN-RECIPROCAL TRADE-NOV. 17, 1938 ARTICLE XIX Each High Contracting Party reserves the right to withdraw or to modify any concession granted in any territory of that High Con- tracting Party on any article enumerated and described, or specified, in any of the Schedules annexed to this Agreement, or to impose quantitative regulations on the importation of any such article into that territory if, as the result of the extension of such concession to other foreign countries, any such country obtains the major benefit of the concession, and if in consequence imports of the article con- cerned increase to such an extent as to threaten serious injury to producers in the territories of that High Contracting Party: Pro- vided, That before any action authorized by this Article is taken, the High Contracting Party proposing to take such action shall give the other thirty days' notice thereof in writing and shall consult with that High Contracting Party concerning the proposed action. 1905 Right to withdraw, etc., concessions. Previous written notice to be given. ARTICLE XX Should any measure be adopted in any territory of either High Adustments. Contracting Party which, while not conflicting with the terms of this Agreement, appears to the other High Contracting Party to have the effect of nullifying or impairing any of the objects of the Agreement, the first High Contracting Party shall consider such representations and proposals as the other may make, with a view to effecting a mutually satisfactory adjustment of the matter. ARTICLE XXI Except as otherwise required by Article III of this Agreement or by any of the Schedules annexed hereto: (a) Nothing in the Agreement shall entitle His Majesty the King to claim the benefit of any treatment, preference or privilege which may at any time be accorded exclusively by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba. The provisions of this subparagraph shall continue to apply in respect of any benefits now or hereafter accorded by the United States of America, its terri- tories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to the Philippine Islands, irrespective of any change in the political status of the Philippine Islands. (b) Nothing in the Agreement shall entitle the United States of America to claim the benefit of any treatment, preference or privilege which may at any time be in force exclusively between territories under the sovereignty of His Majesty the King or under His Majesty's protection or suzerainty; or of any special customs privileges which may be accorded in Palestine to articles the growth, produce or manu- facture of any State the territory of which in 1914 was wholly included in Asiatic Turkey or Arabia. ARTICLE XXIT Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to affect the rights or obligations of either High Contracting Party under any treaty or other international instrument in force between them on the day of the signature of the Agreement. Parties excluded from designated pref- erential treatment. Trade of U. S., etc. Trade of United Kingdom, etc. Existing rights and obligations.

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