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 IRAQ-MUTUAL AID -JULY 31, 1945 ARTICLE VII In the final determination of the benefits to be provided to the United States of America by the Government of Iraq in return for aid furnished under the Lend-Lease Act, the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between the two countries, but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic relations. To that end, they shall include provision fbr agreed action by the United States of America and the Kingdom of Iraq, open to participation by all other countries of like mind, directed to the expansion, by appro- priate international and domestic measures, of production, employ- ment, and the exchange and consumption of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce; to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941, by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At an early convenient date, conversations shall be begun between the two Governments with a view to determining, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above- stated objectives by their own agreed action and of seeking the agreed action of other like-minded Governments. ARTICLE VIII This Agreement shall take effect as from this day's date. It shall continue in force until a date to be agreed upon by the two Govern- ments. Signed and sealed at Washington in duplicate this thirty-first day of July, 1945. Terms and condi- tions of benefits. 55 Stat. 1603 . Effective date; du- ration. FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF TIE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: [SEAL] JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State of the United States of America FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF IRAQ: [SEAL] ALI JAWDAT Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Iraq in Washington The Acting Secretary of State to the Iraqi Envoy Extraordinaryand Minister Plenipotentiary DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON July 31, 1945. SIR: I have the honor to refer to the conversations that have occurred between the representatives of our two Governments in connection 1537 59 STAT.1

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