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 Considering that the present situation of the sugar market renders it both possible and necessary for the Governments concerned to collaborate to this end; Bearing in mind the principle laid down by the above-mentioned Conference that any international agreement for the regulation of production and marketing should be equitable both to producers and consumers; Have agreed as follows:- Chapter I.- Definitions. ARTICLE 1. For the purposes of the present Agreement- (1) "Ton" means a metric ton of 1,000 kilograms. "Long ton" means a ton of 2,240 lbs. avoirdupois. "Short ton" means a ton of 2,000 lbs. avoirdupois. (2) "Quota year" means the period from the 1st September to the 31st August. (3) "Sugar" shall be deemed to include sugar in any of its com- mercial forms, except the product sold as final molasses, and also except the so-called "Goela Mangkok" sugar produced by primitive methods by natives of Java for their own account to which sugar the Government of the Netherlands East Indies does not extend its legislative measures. The sugar equivalent of exports of the product known as "fancy molasses" from Barbados shall, however, be charged to the export quota of the British Colonial Empire. The respective export quotas of sugar referred to in this Agreement shall, in the case of cane sugar producing countries, mean and refer to the nature and the types of sugar heretofore exported by such countries; and, in the case of beet sugar producing countries, shall mean raw sugar tel quel, white sugars of the latter countries to be converted to a raw basis at the rate of nine parts white to ten parts raw. Such quantities shall, in all cases, mean net weight excluding the container. (4) "Net imports" means total imports after deducting total exports. (5) "Net exports" means total exports after deducting total imports. (6) "Exports to the free market" shall include all net exports from the countries to which export quotas for the free market are or pot, p. 93. may be allotted under Article 19, with the exception of- (a) exports from the Republic of Cuba to the United States of America under any import quota allotted by the United States of America to Cuba; provided that such sugar is not re-exported from the United States of America to any country except Cuba, and further provided that any sugar exported from Cuba to the United States of America under Pp 927P.. a quota allotted under paragraph (a) of Article 9 shall be included in the exports of Cuba to the free market; 924 TREATIES [59 STAT.

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