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 TREATIES I hereby certify that the foregoing document is a true and faithful copy of the original in the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages, of the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, which was signed at Washington and deposited with the Pan American Union on November 28, 1940. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 30, 1940. [SEAL] PEDRO DE ALBA, Secretary of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union WHEREAS it is provided by Article XX of the said Agreement that the Agreement shall be ratified or approved by each of the signatory Governments in accordance with its legal requirements and shall come into force when the instruments of ratification or approval of all the signatory Governments have been deposited with the Pan American Union; but that if within ninety days from the date of signature of the Agreement the instruments of ratification or approval of all the signatory Governments have not been deposited, the Governments which have deposited their instruments of ratification or approval may put the Agreement into force among themselves by means of a protocol; WHEREAS a period of ninety days has elapsed without the deposit at the Pan American Union of the instruments of ratification or approval of all the signatory Governments; WHEREAS the said Agreement has been ratified or approved by the Government of the United States of America and by certain other of the signatory Governments, and their respective instruments of ratification or approval have been deposited with the Pan American Union at Washington; WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Article XX of the said Agreement, a protocol, in the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French languages, was signed at the Pan American Union in Wash- ington on April 15, 1941, by the authorized representatives of the Government of the United States of America and by other of the signatory Governments of the said Agreement which have deposited their instruments of ratification or approval at the Pan American Union; WHEREAS it is provided in the said protocol, a certified copy of which is annexed hereto, that the parties thereto agree to proceed immediately to put the Inter-American Coffee Agreement of November 28, 1940 into force among themselves, pending the ratification or approval of the said Agreement by all the signatory Governments, and that with respect to the other signatory Governments of the said Agreement, the protocol shall remain open for signature on or after the date on which each Government shall deposit its instrument of ratification or approval of the Agreement; WHEREAS it is further provided in the said protocol that it shall become operative as regards each Contracting Party on the day following the date of signature by such Party; 1180 [55 STAT.

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