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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. SCHEDULE I-Continued PART II Article Added sugar contained in articles specified in Part I, Section A, of this Schedule NOTE: As regards the sugar content of any such articles the preferential duty margins allowed in the United King- dom in respect of the sugar content of similar British Empire articles shall be stabilised as long as the main preferential duty margins in respect of sugar imported as such remain stabilised. If such margins in respect of sugar imported as such are changed, the preferential duty margins in respect of the sugar content of any of the articles specified in Part I, Section A, of this Schedule shall be changed correspondingly. Similarly, the rates of duty on the sugar content of any article specified in Part I, Section A, of this Schedule shall remain unchanged as long as the main rates of duty on sugar imported as such remain unchanged. If such rates of duty on sugar imported as such are changed, the rates of duty on the sugar content of any article specified in Part I, Section A, of this Schedule shall be changed corre- spondingly. Tobacco, unmanufactured NOTE: In the course of the discussions leading to the Agreement signed this day, the United States Government have asked for a reduction in the preference accorded in the United Kingdom to Empire tobacco. The Government of the United Kingdom have recognised that this request is one to which the United States Government have attached much importance but they have been prevented from entertaining it by the existence of Agreements with several Governments within the British Em- pire which guarantee continuance of the present margin of preference until August, 1942. The Government of the United Kingdom will be prepared before decisions are taken as to the level of the preference after August, 1942, to examine the position as it then stands and the possibility of reducing the margin of preference. Meanwhile it will not be increased.

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