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 59 STAT.] MyULTILATERAL-SUGAR- May 6, 1937 59T] MULTILATERALSUGARJuly 22, 1942; Aug. 31, 1944 ARTICLE 44. (a) If any Contracting Government alleges that any other Con- tracting Government has failed to comply with the obligations of the present Agreement a special meeting of the Council shall be called to decide whether any infringement of the Agreement has taken place, and, if so, what measures shall be recommended to the Contracting Governments in view of the infringement. If the Council shall decide that it is desirable that the other Contracting Governments shall prohibit or restrict the import of sugar from the country which has infringed the Agreement, the taking of such measures shall not be deemed to be contrary to any most-favoured-nation rights which the offending Government may enjoy. (b) any decision of the Council under this Article shall be taken by three-fourths of the votes cast. ARTICLE 45. If during the period of the present Agreement it should be con- sidered or should be shown that the attainment of its objects was being hindered by countries not party thereto, a special meeting of the Council shall be called to decide what measures should be recom- mended to the Contracting Governments. ARTICLE 46. Should the Council at any time be satisfied that, as the result of a material increase in the exportation or use of sugar syrups, liquid sugar, edible molasses or any other kind of sugar mixtures, those products are taking the place of sugar to such an extent as to prevent full effect being given to the purposes of the present Agreement, it may resolve that such products or any of them shall be deemed to be sugar, in respect of their sugar content, for the purposes of the Agreement; provided that the Council shall, for the purpose of calculating the amount of sugar to be charged to the export quota of any country, exclude the sugar equivalent of any quantity of such products which has normally been exported from that country prior to the coming into force of the Agreement. ARTICLE 47. The present Agreement shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited as soon as possible with the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which will notify the fact of each deposit to the Governments which have signed the Agreement. ARTICLE 48. (a) The present Agreement shall come into force on the 1st September, 1937, if at that date it has been ratified by all the signa- tory Governments. 939 Infringement of agreement. Hindrance by non- members. Sugar equivalents. Ratification. Entry into force; condition.

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