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 5f9 STAT.]MULTILATERn AEIc-SUG May 6, 1937 929 59 STAT.] MULTILAT ASUG -July 22, 1942; Aug. 31, 1944 929 1937, of the United Kingdom plus the aggregate of the net import requirements for that year of each of the other parts of the British Empire. Provided that there shall be reserved for exporters to the free market a percentage of the increase so calculated not less than the percentage of the aforesaid requirements supplied by the exporters to the free market in the year ending on the 31st August, 1937. (b) The Governments of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth Estimates. of Australia and the Union of South Africa, in consultation with the Council, shall determine before the commencement of each quota year the estimated amount of the increase in requirements as aforesaid for that year, and the said Governments will thereupon notify the Council what amount of such estimated increase will be added to the standard quantity referred to in Article 11 (a) above or the export quotas re- ferred to in Articles 11 (b), 12 and 13 as the case may be, and what amount will be available for exporters to the free market. (c) The Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and of the Union of South Africa agree not to claim any increase of their basic quotas, as fixed in Articles 12 and 13 respectively, in the year com- mencing the 1st September, 1937, without prejudice to their rights to their full share in the increase in future years of the aforesaid require- ments as compared with the year ending the 31st August, 1937, and their shares of the increase of requirements in the year commencing the 1st September, 1937, shall be made available for exporters to the free market. (d) If in any year the actual increase of requirements calculated as aforesaid exceeds or falls short of the estimate made as provided in paragraph (b) of this Article, a correction shall if necessary be made by deduction from or addition to the quotas for the next succeeding year. ARTICLE 15. The provisions of Articles 22, 23 and 25 shall apply to the export Export quotas. quotas fixed by Articles 11, 12 and 13 above, and these quotas shall also be subject to the rules of paragraph (a) of Article 24 regarding notification of inability to utilise quotas, in the same way as if the said quotas were quotas for export to the free market. In the event of such notification of inability to utilise quotas the parts not to be utilised may be redistributed among the other territories referred to in Articles 11, 12 and 13. ARTICLE 16. (a) The Government of India undertakes to prohibit exports of xports y Ind sugar by sea elsewhere than to Burma during the period of the present Agreement. (b) In the event of re-export of Indian sugar by sea from Burma rendering the Government of India's contribution to the present Agreement ineffective, the Government of India will take up the matter with the Government of Burma with a view to reaching arrangements which will render the Government of India's contribu- tion effective.

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