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 61TRADE, PMay 4, 18, June 10, July 4, 8. 11, 1946 61 STAT.] DE, PHILIPPINES 15, 2, Sept. 10, Oct. 3, 7, 1946 stood to require the extension to Bolivia of advantages accorded by the United States to the Philippines. In appreciation of the facts explained in Your Excellency's note, and as an act of friendship to the Philippine Nation in the achieving of its independence, I have the honor to express, on behalf of the Bolivian Government, the acceptance of this proposition. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. V ANDRADE Washington, D.C ., June 10, 1946 His Excellency Mr. JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. The Acting Secretary of State to the Danish Charged'Affaires ad interim DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON May 4 1946 SIR: With reference to the forthcoming independence of the Philippines on July 4, 1946, my Government considers that provision for a transi- tional period for dealing with the special tariff position which Philip- pine products have occupied for many years in the United States is an essential accompaniment to Philippine independence. Accord- ingly, under the Philippine Trade Act approved April 30, 1946, goods the growth, produce or manufacture of the Philippines will enter the United States free of duty until 1954, after which they will be subject to gradually and regularly increasing rates of duty or de- creasing duty-free quotas until 1974 when general rates will become applicable and all preferences will be completely eliminated. Since the enactment of the Philippine Independence Act approved March 24, 1934, my Government has foreseen the probable necessity of providing for such a transitional period and has since then con- sistently excepted from most-favored-nation obligations which it has undertaken toward foreign governments advantages which it might continue to accord to Philippine products after the proclamation of Philippine independence. Some thirty instruments in force with other governments, for example, permit the continuation of the ex- ceptional tariff treatment now accorded by my Government to Philippine products, irrespective of the forthcoming change in the Commonwealth's political status. With a view, therefore, to placing the relations between the United States and Denmark upon the same basis, with respect to the matters involved, as the relations existing under the treaties and agreements referred to in the preceding paragraph, my Government proposes that the most-favored-nation provisions of the Treaty of Friendship, Entry of Philippine goods under Philippine Trade Act of 1946. COStat. 141. 22 U.S. C .. 1,51 e seq. 48 Stat. 456. 48U.8. 1(.1232 t seq. Nonextensionto Denmark of advan- tages accorded by U. 8. to Philippines. 2439

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