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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-BRAZILIAN RICE SURPLUSES-DEC. 23 ,1946 consideration when it fixes the quotas of rice from all other sources. VI. The quota reserved for the countries and possessions in question is thus raised from 10,000 to 16,463 metric tons of rice. 2. This note, that of Your Excellency and that of the Embassy of Great Britain, of like tenor and of the same date, constitute a formal agreement among the three Governments on this question. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. RAUL FERNANDES His Excellency WILLIAM DOUGLAS PAWLEY, Ambassador of the United States of America. The BritishAmbassador to the BrazilianMinisterfor ForeignAffairs BRITISH EMBASSY, RIo DE JANEIRO. No. 309. 23rd December, 1946. MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency, with reference to the negotiations between the Brazilian authorities and the representa- tives of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and of the Government of the United States of America in regard to the quota of 10,000 tons of rice reserved by Brazil for sale from the 1945-1946 crop to Argentina, French Guiana, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Colom- bia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Dutch and French West Indies in accordance with the Agreement in force, that His Majesty's Govern- ment agree to a modification of the Agreement referred to in the following terms:- I. The Governments of Brazil, of the United States of America and of the United Kingdom agree that the quota of 10,000 metric tons of rice reserved by Brazil, in accordance with the Agreement of the 21st December 1943, for sale to Argen- 6e Stat 1 12 tina, French Guiana, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Dutch and French West Indies be increased to 13,000 metric tons, and that this shall be with- drawn from the crop of 1945-1946 of rice produced in the States of Piaui, Maranhao and Para. II. The shipment of rice produced in other States will not be permitted by the Brazilian Government to the countries and possessions specified in paragraph I of this Note. III. The 3,463 metric tons of rice of the 1945-1946 crop from Southern Brazil destined to some of the countries and possessions specified in paragraph I of this Note and for 2947

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