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 55 STAT.] INTER-AMERICAN--COFFEE AGREEMENT-NOV. 28, 1940 AND WHEREAS Section 1 of a joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of America, approved April 11, 1941, entitled "Joint Resolution To carry out the obligations of the United States under the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, signed at Washington on November 28, 1940, and for other purposes", provides as follows: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the entry into force of the Inter-American Coffee Agree- ment, as proclaimed by the President, and during the continua- tion in force of the obligations of the United States thereunder, no coffee imported from any foreign country may be entered for consumption except as provided in the said agreement."; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Agreement signed on November 28, 1940, and the said Protocol signed on April 15, 1941, to be made public, to the end that the said Agreement shall be given effect pursuant to the said Protocol and the aforesaid Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States of America, and that every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, and I do hereby proclaim that the said Inter-American Coffee Agree- ment, signed on November 28, 1940, will enter into force on April 16, 1941, in respect of the obligations of the United States of America thereunder, including the limitation of entries for consumption of coffee from any foreign country or countries to the quotas therein provided for. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty- [SEAL] one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. Ante, p. 133. Entry into force on part of U. S..

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