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 2008 49 Stat. 3636 . 49 Stat. 3559, 3561. Duration of Agree- ment. 49 Stat. 3568. 49 Stat. 3566. Duty on sugar, etc. 49 Stat. 3569. 49 Stat. 3636. Termination of Agreement. Measures consid- ered as nullifying, etc. Termination of Agreement. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES -[54 STAT. No internal Federal taxes shall be imposed on articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the Republic of Cuba enu- merated and described in item 501 of Schedule II annexed to this Agreement in excess of those imposed on September 3, 1937, or re- quired to be imposed thereafter by laws of the United States of America in effect on September 3, 1937. The provisions of Article I and Article III of this Agreement and of the third paragraph of this Article shall not prevent the Government of the United States of America from imposing at any time on the importation of any article a charge equivalent to an internal tax imposed in respect of a like domestic article or in respect of a commodity from which the imported article has been manufactured or produced in whole or in part. ARTICLE IV 1. The second paragraph of Article XVII of the Agreement of August 24, 1934, is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and adding the following: subject to the provisions of Article XI and the third and fourth paragraphs of this Article. 2. The third paragraph of Article XVII of the Agreement of August 24, 1934, is amended to read as follows: Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, if the rates of duty specified in Column 2 of Schedule II annexed to this Agreement in respect of item 501 of the said Schedule should be increased in accordance with the provisions set forth in the note to the said item 501, the Government of the Republic of Cuba may propose negotiations for the modification of this Agreement. If agree- ment with respect to such proposal is not reached within thirty days following receipt thereof by the Government of the United States of America, the Government of the Republic of Cuba shall be free, within fifteen days after the expiration of the afore- said period of thirty days, to terminate this Agreement in its entirety on thirty days' written notice. 3. Article XVII of the Agreement of August 24, 1934, is amended by adding the following new paragraph after the third paragraph of the said Article: It is further agreed that, in the event that the Government of either country adopts any measure which, even though it does not conflict with the terms of this Agreement, is considered by the Government of the other country to have the effect of nullifying or impairing any object of the Agreement, the Government which has adopted any such measure shall consider such written representations and proposals as the other Government may make with a view to effecting a mutually satisfactory adjustment of the matter; if no agreement is reached with respect to such representations or proposals within thirty days after they are received, the Government which made them shall be free, within fifteen days after the expiration of the aforesaid period of thirty days, to terminate this Agreement in its entirety on thirty days' written notice.

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