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 1618 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [56 STAT. prev6 que las reducciones arancelarias que nuestro pais conceda a otros paises, deben beneficiar, en la medida sefialada por los principios relativos a la clausula de naci6n mas favorecida, a los productos si- milares de fabricaci6n y procedencia estadounidense, ruego a Vuestra Excelencia se sirva informar a esta Cancilleria si el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de America, en vista de todas las antedichas considera- ciones, consentira en no invocar las clausulas del Convenio del 25 de septiembre de 1924 ya indicado, con el prop6sito de reclamar el beneficio de las preferencias arancelarias concedidas al Estado limitrofe de Haiti, las cuales considera mi Gobierno como ajustadas a las con- diciones de la forma recomendada por el Comit6 Consultivo Econ6mico Financiero Interamericano. V&lgome de esta oportunidad para renovar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mas alta consideraci6n, A. DESPRADEL A Su Excelencia AVRA M. WARREN , E.E. y Ministro Plenipotenciario de los Estados Unidos de Am&rica, Su Legacion. [Translationl DOMINICAN REPUBLIO DEPARTMENT OF STATE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 21430 CIUDAD TRUJILLO, DISTRICT OF SANTO DOMINGO, November 14, 1942. MR. MINISTER: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that under date of August 26, 1941 a commercial agreement was signed in the city of Port-au-Prince by means of which the Dominican Republic and that of Haiti, in their status of contiguous countries, established a special treatment in the commercial relations existing between the two nations. The exchange of ratifications of this commercial agreement was effected in this capital on March 23 of the present year. This agreement establishes, among other stipulations, the reduction of Dominican import customs duties according to a list specifying the products which, upon being imported from Haiti, are to be introduced to our country with the reductions in the Dominican import tariff provided in that list. The Government of the Dominican Republic has always supported the multilateral development of international commerce on the basis that nations may have access to the said commerce on equal conditions and that they may be able to obtain, through such conditions, the raw materials required for a satisfactory and prosperous development of their respective economies. In this connection I have the honor to refer to the formula of con- tractual tariff preferences between contiguous countries which was

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