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 61 STAT.] PHILIPPINES-TRADE July 4, 1946 Oct. 22, 1946 ippines of such part of the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Article as is in conflict with such Constitution before such amendment ['1. ARTICLE VIII 1. Upon the taking effect of this Agreement the provisions thereof placing obligations on the United States: (a) if in effect as laws of the United States at the time this Agreement takes effect, shall continue in effect as laws of the United States during the effectiveness of the Agreement; or (b) if not so in effect at the time the Agreement takes effect, shall take effect and continnue in effect as laws of the United States during the effectiveness of the Agreement. The Philippines will continue in effect as laws of the Philippines, during the effective- ness of this Agreement, the provisions thereof placing obligations on the Philippines, except as is otherwise provided in Paragraph 1 of Article VII. 2. The United States and the Philippines will promptly enact, and shall keep in effect during the effectiveness of this Agreement, such legislation as may be necessary to supplement the laws of the United States and the Philippines, respectively, referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, and to implement the provisions of such laws and the provisions of this Agreement placing obligations on the United States and the Philippines, respectively. Moreover, the Philippines will promptly enact, and keep in force and effect during the effectiveness of this Agreement, such legislation as may be necessary to put and keep in effect during the effectiveness of this Agreement, the allocation, reallocation, transfer, and assignment of quotas on the basis provided for in Paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article II; and, if the United States exercises the right to establish quotas pursuant to Paragraph 1 of Article III and to provide for the allocation thereof pursuant to Para- graph 2 of the same Article, the Philippines will promptly enact, and ' [By a note of May 16, 1947, the Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines informed the American Charge d'Affaires ad interim at Manila of the adoption of a constitutional amendment, effective Apr. 9, 1947, which provides: "Notwithstanding the provisions of section one, Article Thirteen, and section eight, Article Fourteen, of the foregoing Constitution, during the effectivity of the Executive Agreement entered into by, the President of the Philippines with the President of the United States on the fourth of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six, pursuant to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-three, but in no case to extend beyond the third of July, nineteen hundred and seventy-four, the disposition, exploitation, develop- ment, and utilization of all agricultural, timber, and mineral lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum, and other mineral oils, all forces and sources of potential energy, and other natural resources of the Philippines, and the operation of public utilities, shall, if open to any person, be open to citizens of the United States and to all forms of business enterprise owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by citizens of the United States in the same manner as to, and under the same conditions imposed upon, citizens of the Philippines or corporations or associations owned or controlled by citizens of the Philippines."] 2619 Provisions placing obligations on U. S . and Philippines. Post, p. 2633 . Supplementary leg- islation. Ante, p. 2614. Ante, p. 2616.

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