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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. The Italian Ambassador to the Secretary of State ROYAL ITALIAN EMBASSY WASHINGTON, D .C. WASHINGTON, D.C. December 6, 1945 Sm: I have the honor to refer to your note of december 6th setting forth your understanding of the agreement reached in recent conversations which have taken place between representatives of the Government of Italy and the Government of the United States with regard to the resumption of normal commercial relations between our two countries. These conversations have disclosed a desire on the part of the two Governments to promote reciprocally advantageous economic relations between them and the improvement of world-wide economic relations. To that end the Governments of Italy and of the United States of America propose to cooperate in formulating a program of agreed action, open to participation by all other countries of like mind, di- rected to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic measures, of production, employment, and the exchange and consump- tion of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discrimina- tory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tar- iffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on 65Stat.1603. August 14, 1941 by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At the earliest practicable date conversations shall be begun between our two Governments with a view to determining, in the light of gov- erning economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above- stated objectives. In informing you that the Italian Government is in agreement with the contents of the above Note, I beg you to accept, Sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. ALBERTO TARCHrANI The Honorable JAMES F. BYBNES Secretaryof State of the United States Washington, D.CO 1732
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