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 55 STAT.] CUBA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-DEC. 23, 1941 mente apreciado, y que, en consecuencia, mi Gobierno hara todos los esfuerzos aptos y posibles para proteger en todo tiempo dicha situa- ci6n. Queda entendido que este intercambio de notas constituye parte integrante del convenio comercial suplementario firmado hoy. Acepte, Excelencia, las renovadas seguridades de mi mis alta consideraci6n. GEORGE S. MESSERSMITH Embajador de los Estados Unidos de America Su Excelencia Dr. JosE M. CORTINA, Ministro de Estado de Cuba, La Habana. WHEREAS, such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuance of existing customs and excise treat- ment as are set forth and provided for in the said Agreement, including the said notes, are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; WHEREAS, it is provided in Article IX of the said Agreement that it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be made effective in the Republic of Cuba in conformity with the laws of that country, and that it shall enter into force on the seventh day following the day of the proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and publication thereof in the Gaceta Qficial of the Republic of Cuba; AND WHEREAS the Governments of the two countries have arranged that the proclamation of the Agreement by the President of the United States of America and the publication of the Agreement in the Gaceta Oficial of the Republic of Cuba shall take place simultaneously on this twenty-ninth day of December, 1941; whereupon the said Agreement will enter into force on the fifth day of January, 1942; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do hereby pro- claim the said Agreement of December 23, 1941, including the said notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on and after the fifth day of January, 1942. 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 twenty-ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 278941-42- -PT. II-38 Ante, p. 1472. 48 Stat. 943. 19U.S.C.II1361- 1354. 1477

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