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 56 STAT.] INTER-AMERICAN-COFFEE AGREEMENT-FEB. 27, 1942 1345 Supplementary proclamation by the President of the United States of February 27, 1942 America, issued February27, 1942, declaring that the Inter-American IT s. 979] Coffee Agreement signed at Washington November 28, 1940 entered into full force among all the signatory countries on December 31, 1941. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by my proclamation of April 15, 1941, I did make public the Inter-American Coffee Agreement concluded and signed at Wash- ington on November 28, 1940, [1] for the Governments of the United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Domin- ican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela; WHEREAS by my said proclamation I did likewise make public a protocol signed pursuant to Article XX of the said Agreement, on 55 stat. 8s. April 15, 1941, [1] for the Governments of the countries which at that time had deposited their respective instruments of ratification or approval with the Pan American Union, namely, the United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru, putting the agreement into force among themselves on April 16, 1941, pending the ratification or approval of the said agreement by all the signatory Governments; WHEREAS by Article II of the said protocol signed on April 15, 5Stat. 116 . 1941, it was further provided that pending the deposit with the Pan American Union of the instruments of ratification or approval by all the signatory Governments of the said agreement of November 28, 1940, the protocol should remain open for signature by each signatory of the Inter-American Coffee Agreement on or after the date on which it should deposit its instrument of ratification or approval thereof; and WHEREAS the instruments of ratification of the said agreement by the Governments of the countries which had not deposited their ratifications on April 15, 1941, the day on which the said protocol was signed, were deposited with the Pan American Union by the respective plenipotentiaries of Ecuador on April 29, 1941, the Domin- ican Republic on April 30, 1941, Nicaragua on May 13, 1941, Vene- zuela on July 22, 1941, and Cuba on December 31, 1941, thus com- pleting the deposit of instruments of ratification or approval by all the Governments signatory of the said agreement, and the said protocol was signed for the Governments of Ecuador on April 29, 1941, the Dominican Republic on April 30, 1941, Nicaragua on May 13, 1941, Venezuela on August 14, 1941, and Cuba on December 31, 1941; 1 [Treaty Series 970; 55 Stat. 1143.]

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