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 56 S'AT.J CANADA-POST-WAR ECONOMIC SETTLEMENTS-NOV. 30, 1942 Exchange of notes between the United States of America and Canada November30,1942 respecting post-war economic settlements. Signed November 30, 1942. [E. A. S. 2871 The Secretary of State to the CanadianMinister DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON November 30, 1942 SIR: I have the honor to set forth below my understanding of the con- clusions reached in conversations which have taken place from time to time during the past year between representatives of the Govern- ment of the United States and the Government of Canada with regard to post-war economic settlements. Our two Governments are engaged in a cooperative undertaking, together with every other nation or people of like mind, to the end of laying the bases of a just and enduring world peace securing order under law to themselves and all nations. They have agreed to provide mutual aid both in defense and in economic matters through the Ogdensburg and Hyde Park Agreements and subsequent arrangements. They are in agreement that post-war settlements must be such as to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic relations. To that end the Governments of the United States of America and of Canada are prepared to cooperate in formulating a program of agreed action, open to participation by all other countries of like mind, directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic measures, of production, employment, and the exchange and consumption of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941, by the President of the United States of America and the Prime MIinister of the United Kingdom.['] Our Governments have in large measure similar interests in post-war international economic policy. They undertake to enter at an early conveni(ent date into- conversations between themselves and with representatives of other United Nations with a view to determinng, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above-stated objectives by agreed action on the part of our two Governments and other like-minded Governments. In the conversations to be undertaken between the Governments of the I [Executive Agreement Series 236; 55 Stat. 1603.] 1815

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