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 1534 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. II AGREEMENT ON SETTLEMENT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL CLAIMS 1. During the course of the negotiations leading to the JOINT STATE- MENT REGARDING SETTLEMENT FOR LEND-LEASE, RECIPROCAL AID, po. p. 1564. SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY AND CLAIMS, dated December 6, 1945, representatives of the Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom discussed certain claims arising out of the conduct of World War II and presented by one Government to the other. The objective was to arrive at as comprehensive a settlement as possible and to obviate protracted negotiations between the two Govern- ments. in fttigarrge- 2. The following were accepted by the Governments of the United ment. States and of the United Kingdom respectively for inclusion in the offsetting arrangement, described in section E of the Agreement on Lend-Lease and Reciprocal Aid Pipelines and Offsetting Arrangement Ane, p. 1531. concluded this day (No. I), in accordance with paragraph 3 (a) of the Pot, p.16l Joint Statement of December 6, 1945, in the amounts indicated below: (a) Claims by the Government of the United States accepted by the Government of the United Kingdom In millions of dollars (i) Assignment to certain British Colonial Dependencies, ineligible for lend-lease at the time, of 796 trucks and certain spares 2.0 (ii) Re-export of 10,000 tons of lend-lease steel to France 0.7 (iii) Transportation costs for petroleum products in the Sudan (net figure) 0. 12 (iv) Rental of lend-lease rolling stock for use to September 2, 1945, by Middle East railways 2.0 (v) Retransfers and diversions of lend-lease tinplate, terneplate and drumsheets in the Middle East, Iran, and East and West Africa 6.0 (vi) Agreed provision to cover claims not otherwise settled arising out of instances of retransfers or diversions of lend-lease articles occurring during the period from March 11, 1941 to September 1, 1945, inclusive, or out of exports during that period, in respect of which the Government of the United States would have been entitled to reimbursement 4.0 (vii) The United Kingdom motor spirit basic ration for civilians 2.8 (viii) Commercial exports of petroleum products from the United Kingdom to Eire, France, West Africa and Sweden .1 (ix) Diversions of lend-lease petroleum and petroleum materials to oil companies in the Middle East 1. (b) Claims by the Government of the United Kingdom accepted by the Government of the United States (i) Purchase price of capital facilities in the United States acquired by the Government of the United Kingdom prior to the entry of the United States into World War II and repurchased by the Govern- ment of the United States in accordance with existing agreements 32. 0 (ii) Freight, insurance and handling charges on South American meat transferred to the U. S. S. R. on United States Government account 1. 45 (iii) United States Government share of cost of joint preemption of Siamese rubber 0.8

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