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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. authorized for that purpose by agreement between purchaser and seller. All the expenses of weighing, sampling and certificates shall be for the account of the seller. 6. Any questions arising in the execution of this contract, if they cannot be settled in any other way, shall be decided by arbitration in New Orleans, in accordance with the regulations of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, or in New York, in accordance with the regulations of the New York Produce Exchange. 7. Each shipment shall be considered as a separate contract or sale. The American Ambassador to the BrazilianActing Minister for Foreign Affairs EMBASSY Op THE UIED STATES OS AMERICA No. 195 - . X Rio de Janeiro,July 20,1945. Exacewcr .. . . I have the honor to inform Your Exeallency that, following conver- sations recently held between representatives of the Governments of Brazil, thei United Kingdom and the United States of America in regard to the price to be paid for the exportable surplus-of the 1944- 1945 Brazilian rice crop and the extension of the existing Agreement to the 1945-1946 crop, the Government of the United States, acting jointly with the Government of the United Kingdom, agrees to pay an increase of 10 per cent on the basic price which was established for the export- able surplus of the 1943-1944 Brazilian rice crop of specified types and qualities, under the terms set forth in the Schedule incorporated Anm, p. 1614. in the exchange of notes of December 21, 1943 establishing an Agree- ment for the purchase and sale of rice. 2. The Government of the United States agrees also that the maxi- mum allowable content of broken rice, known as "brokens", referred to in Clause number 1, captioned "Types and Qualities", of the Sched- ule which constitutes Appendix number 1 to the exchange of notes of December 21,1943, shall be increased from 10 per cent to 20 per cent. 3. All the terms and conditions of the Agreement established by the exchange of notes of December 21, 1943 and enclosures thereto shall remain unchanged, save for the above stated modifications in the basic price and in the percentage of broken rice. 4. Moreover, the Government of the United States agrees that all the terms and conditions of the Agreement established by the exchange of notes of December 21, 1943 and enclosures thereto, with the modifi- cations in the basic price and in the percentage of broken rice herein stated, shall apply to the exportable surplus of the 1945-1946 Brazilian rice crop of the specified types and qualities, with the understanding that the exportable surplus of the 1945-1946 crop shall be made avail- able for shipment in periods corresponding to those established for the 1943-1944 and 1944-1945 crops, particularly in so far as the months May to September, 1946, are concerned. 1632

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