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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [56 STAT. United States of America and of Canada they will seek to furnish to the world concrete evidence of the ways in which two neighboring countries that have a long experience of friendly relations and a high degree of economic interdependence, and that share the conviction that such reciprocally beneficial relations must form part of a general system, may promote by agreed action their mutual interests to the benefit of themselves and other countries. If the Government of Canada concurs in the foregoing statement of conclusions, I would suggest that the present note and your reply to that effect should be regarded as placing on record the understanding of our two Governments in this matter. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. CORDELL HULL The Honorable LEIGHTON MCCARTHY, Minister of Canada. The CanadianMinister to the Secretary of State CANADIAN LEGATION WASHINGTON No. 760. November SOth, 1942. SIR: I have the honour to refer to your note of November 30th, 1942, setting forth your understanding of the conclusions reached in con-, versations between representatives of the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States with regard to post-war economic settlements. That understanding is as follows. Our two Governments 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 Stat. 1a3. Declaration made on August 14th, 1941, by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister 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 convenient date into conversations between themselves and with representatives of other United Nations with a view to determining, 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 Canada and of the United States of America they will seek to furnish to the

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