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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. (i) involving restrictions on exports of domestic materials necessary to assure essential quantities of such mater- ials to a domestic processing industry during periods when the domestic price of such materials is held below the world price as part of a governmental stabilization plan; Provided that such restrictions shall not operate to increase the exports of or the protection afforded to such domestic industry, and shall not depart from the provisions of this Agreement relating to non- discrimination; II. (a) essential to the acquisition or distribution of products in general or local short supply; Provided that any such measures shall be consistent with any multilateral arrange- ments directed to an equitable international distribution of such products or, in the absence of such arrangements, with the principle that all contracting parties are entitled to an equitable share of the international supply of such products; (b) essential to the control of prices by a contracting party undergoing shortages subsequent to the war; or (c) essential to the orderly liquidation of temporary sur- pluses of stocks owned or controlled by the government of any contracting party or of industries developed in the territory of any contracting party owing to the ex- igencies of the war which it would be uneconomic to main- tain in normal conditons; Provided that such measures shall not be instituted by any contracting party except after consultation with other interestedcontracting parties with a view to appropriate international action.

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