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 1088 Trade with adjacent countries. U. S. trade with its possessions, Canal Zone, or Cuba. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. 2. Furthermore, the provisions of this Agreement relating to most- favored-nation treatment shall apply to all territory under the sov- ereignty or authority of the two countries, except that they shall not apply to the Panama Canal Zone. ARTICLE XIV 1. The advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America or Iceland to adjacent countries in order to facilitate frontier traffic, and advantages accorded by virtue of a customs union to which either country may become a party, shall be excepted from the operation of this Agreement. 2. The advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba shall be excepted from the operation of this Agreement. The provisions of this paragraph shall continue to apply in respect of any advantages now or hereafter accorded by the United States of America, its terri- tories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another, irre- spective of any change in the political status of any of the territories or possessions of the United States of America. ARTICLE XV Adoption ortinore-as 1. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the ures. adoption or enforcement of measures (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) imposed on moral or humanitarian grounds; designed to protect human, animal or plant life or health; relating to prison-made goods; relating to the enforcement of police or revenue laws; relating to the importation or exportation of gold or silver; relating to the control of the export or sale for export of arms, ammunition, or implements of war, and, in exceptional circumstances, all other military supplies; relating to neutrality; relating to public security, or imposed for the protection of the country's essential interests in time of war or other national emergency. Constitutional lim- itatins. Mutual considera- tion of representa- tlons. 2. The provisions of this Agreement relating to the sale, taxation or use of imported articles within the United States of America are understood to be subject to the constitutional limitations on the authority of the Federal Government. ARTICLE XVI The Government of each country will accord sympathetic consider- ation to, and will afford adequate opportunity for consultation regarding, such representations as the other Government may make with respect to the operation of customs regulations, quantitative regulations or the administration thereof, the observance of customs formalities, and the application of sanitary laws and regulations for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health.

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