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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. PROTOCOL OF SIGNATURE Points ofagreement. Ante, p. 412L Equal opportunity for operation of routes. Ast, p. 4138. Determination of tariffs Ante, p. 4139. It appeared in the course of negotiations leading up to the conclusion of the Agreement on air services between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil signed at Rio de Janeiro today that the representatives of the two Contracting Parties were in agreement on the following points: 1 - The air carriers of the two Contracting Parties operating on the routes described in the Annex of said Agreement shall enjoy fair and equal opportunity for the operation of the said routes. 2 - When it is verified to be temporarily impossible for the carrier or carriers of one of the Contracting Parties, on a route, to tion thus arising will be mutually examined by both Governments for the pur- pose of assisting the said carrier or carriers to increasingly participate in the services contemplated on a fair and equitable basis. 3 - It is recognized that the determination of tariffs to be applied by an air carrier of one Contracting Party between the territory of the other Contracting Party and a third country is a complex question, the overall solution of which cannot be sought through consultation between only two countries. It is noted, furthermore, that the method of determining such tariffs is now being studied by the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization. It is understood under these circumstances: ') - That, pending the acceptance by both parties of any recommendations which the Provisional International.Civil Aviation Organi zation may make after its study of this matter, such tariffs shall be subject to consideration under the provisions of Section V (b) of the Annex to the
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