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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. Sales at f.o.b. prices 5. The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Canada and the within maximum equivalents. United States of America shall ensure that wheat for export is at all times on sale at f.o.b. prices not in excess of the maximum equivalents fixed by the Council under paragraph 1 or 3 of this Article. ARTICLE VI (REIEF POOL) Intergovernmental 1. The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United relief in war-stricken, etc., ar eas. Kingdom and the United States of America shall establish a pool of wheat which will be available for intergovernmental relief in war- stricken countries and other necessitous areas of the world, where circumstances in the view of those Governments make such relief practicable. Contributions. 2. The Governments of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America shall give to the pool, as and when required by the Council, 25, 25 and 50 million bushels respectively of wheat, or its equivalent in whole or part in flour, f.o.b. seaboard port in the country of origin. 3. The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Canada and the United States of America shall, as and when required by the Council, give to the pool in addition to the contributions prescribed in para- graph 2 of this Article a quantity of wheat or its equivalent in whole or part in flour, f.o .b. seaboard port, to be determined by them in consultation with the Council and on such basis as may be agreed among them. remie istration of 4. The Council shall be responsible for the administration of the relief pool and shall, wherever possible, arrange for the distribution of relief wheat through such intergovernmental relief body as may be set up and given general responsibility for the distribution of relief. Should the Council decide to make relief wheat or flour avail- able to any necessitous area in which the intergovernmental relief body has not the organization necessary for the distribution of such wheat or flour the Council shall arrange with the appropriate author- ities to distribute such wheat or flour in that area. Any arrange- ments for the distribution of relief wheat shall be such as to minimize, so far as the provision of sufficient relief permits, the reduction of the effective demand for wheat on sale. Transportation in ieroatorloun 5. The United Kingdom Government may, if so agreed by the lieu of wheat or flour. Council after consultation with the intergovernmental relief body, contribute transportation of relief wheat or flour in lieu of part or all of its contribution under paragraph 2 of this Article. medances for im- 6. Any contributing Government shall, if the Council after consul- tation with the intergovernmental relief body so requests and upon such terms of replacement as may be agreed with the Council, make, pending the arrival of contributions by other Governments, advances of such wheat or flour as that Government may consider practicable to release for immediate relief. Additional contri- 7. Should the Council consider or be advised by the intergovern- butions. mental relief body that the quantity of relief wheat contributed under paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 of this Article appears likely to prove insuf- 1390

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