"(2) That the United States is willing to waive the contention which it has invariably made that the official office and archives of the consular officer are inviolable; that his office shall not be entered or the papers and documents thereof be examined, and that official files of the office shall not be presented in court: and

"(3) That the United States would not consider it important that consular officers shall be exempt from taxation, national, state, provincial, or municipal, upon their persons or property or upon the salaries they receive from the Government employing them.

"Moreover, these reservations are new and were not before the United States at the time of its ratification and were not considered in that ratification either by the Senate or the President. The same is true in respect of the other countries which have deposited their ratifications with the Pan American Union, namely, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. Among these four countries and the United States the convention is in force in toto, and the acceptance of the Dominican reservations would result in the application as between the United States and the Dominican Republic of a treaty greatly at variance with the treaty between the United States and the four countries above mentioned."

EXPOSITIONS

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL

Poland

EXHIBITIONS 3

With a despatch dated October 17, 1932, the American Embassy at Warsaw forwarded to the Department a copy of Dziennik Ustaw (Journal of Laws) No. 84, of October 7, 1932, which contains the text of the convention relating to international exhibitions, signed at Paris November 22, 1928, and a declaration of the Polish Government stating that the instrument of ratification by Poland of this convention was deposited with the French Government on July 18,

1932.

'See Bulletins No. 32, May, 1932, p. 18, and No. 35, August, 1932, p. 27.

TEXTS OF TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS

[The publication of texts hereunder does not imply that the United States is, contemplates becoming, or is eligible to become a party.]

TRADE AGREEMENTS SIGNED AT THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE, OTTAWA, 1932 1

UNITED KINGDOM-AUSTRALIA

We, the representatives of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia, hereby agree with one another, on behalf of our respective Governments, as follows:

ARTICLE 1. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom undertake that Orders shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of the Import Duties Act, 1932, which will ensure the continuance after the 15th November, 1932, of entry free of duty into the United Kingdom of Australian goods which comply with the laws and statutory regulations for the time being in force affecting the grant of Imperial preference and which by virtue of that Act are now free of duty, subject, however, to the reservations set forth in Schedule A appended hereto.

ARTICLE 2. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will invite Parliament to pass the legislation necessary to impose on the foreign goods specified in Schedule B appended hereto, the duties of customs shown in that Schedule in place of the duties (if any) now leviable.

ARTICLE 3. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will invite Parliament to pass the legislation necessary to secure to Australian goods of the kinds specified in Schedule C appended hereto which comply with the law and statutory regulations for the time being in force affecting the grant of Imperial preference, the margins of preference specified therein over similar foreign goods.

ARTICLE 4. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom undertake that the general ad valorem duty of ten per cent imposed by Section 1 of the Import Duties Act, 1932, on the foreign goods specified in Schedule D shall not be reduced except with the consent of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia.

'Texts as published by the Canadian Government in Imperial Economic Conference, 1982: Report of the Conference: Supplementary Volume (Ottawa, 1932). The appended schedules are not here printed.

ARTICLE 5. The duties provided in this agreement on foreign wheat in grain, copper, lead and zinc on importation into the United Kingdom are conditional in each case on Empire producers of wheat in grain, copper, lead and zinc respectively continuing to offer those commodities on first sale in the United Kingdom at prices not exceeding the world price.

ARTICLE 6. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia agree that arrangements shall be made for the regulation of imports of frozen mutton and lamb and frozen and chilled beef into the United Kingdom in accordance with the declaration by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom which is appended as Schedule H. ARTICLE 7. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will invite the Governments of the non-self-governing Colonies and Protectorates to accord to Australia any preference which may for the time being be accorded to any other part of the British Empire, provided that this Article shall not extend to any preferences accorded by Northern Rhodesia to the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the Territories of the South African High Commission by virtue of the Customs Agreement of 1930, and further will invite the Governments of the Colonies and Protectorates shown in Schedule E to accord to Australia new or additional preferences on the commodities and at the rates shown therein.

ARTICLE 8. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia will invite Parliament to pass the legislation making the tariff changes necessary to give effect to the preference formula set forth in Part I of Schedule F appended hereto, subject to the exceptions indicated in Part II of that Schedule, and further undertake that existing preferential margins which exceed those laid down in this formula shall be maintained subject, however, to the right of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia to reduce the existing margins of preference in the case of goods of the kinds specified in Part III of that Schedule to an extent not exceeding the amounts shown therein.

ARTICLE 9. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake that protection by tariffs shall be afforded only to those industries which are reasonably assured of sound opportunities for success.

ARTICLE 10. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake that during the currency of this Agreement the tariff shall be based on the principle that protective duties shall not exceed such a level as will give United Kingdom producers full opportunity of reasonable competition on the basis of the relative cost

of economical and efficient production, provided that in the application of such principle special consideration may be given to the case. of industries not fully established.

ARTICLE 11. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake that a review shall be made as soon as practicable by the Australian Tariff Board of existing protective duties in accordance with the principles laid down in Article 10 hereof, and that after the receipt of the report and recommendation of the Tariff Board the Commonwealth Parliament shall be invited to vary, wherever necessary, the tariff on goods of United Kingdom origin in such manner as to give effect to such principles.

ARTICLE 12. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake that no new protective duty shall be imposed and no existing duty shall be increased on United Kingdom goods to an amount in excess of the recommendation of the Tariff Tribunal. ARTICLE 13. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake that United Kingdom producers shall be entitled to full rights of audience before the Tariff Board when it has under consideration matters arising under Articles 11 and 12 hereof.

ARTICLE 14. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake in so far as concerns goods the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom:

(a) to repeal as soon as practicable the Proclamation published in Commonwealth Gazette No. 46 of 19th May, 1932, prohibiting the importation of certain goods;

(b) to remove as soon as practicable the surcharges imposed by resolution introduced into the Parliament of Australia on the 24th May, 1932; and

(c) to reduce or remove primage duty as soon as the finances of Australia will allow.

ARTICLE 15. His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia undertake to accord to the non-self-governing Colonies and Protectorates and the Mandated Territories of Tanganyika, the Cameroons under British Mandate and Togoland under British Mandate, preferences on the commodities and at the rates shown in Schedule G and also any preferences for the time being accorded to the United Kingdom if His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom so request.

Provided that His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia shall not be bound to accord any preferences to any Colony or Protectorate which, not being precluded by international obligations from according preferences, either (i) accords to Australia no preferences or (ii) accords to some other part of the Empire (in the case of Northern Rhodesia, excepting the Union of South

Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and the territories of the South African High Commission) preferences not accorded to Australia.

ARTICLE 16. This Agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia is to be regarded as coming into effect as from the date hereof (subject to the necessary legislative or other action being taken as soon as may be practicable hereafter). It shall remain in force for a period of five years, and if not denounced six months before the end of that period shall continue in force thereafter until a date six months after notice of denunciation has been given by either party.

In the event of circumstances arising which, in the judgment of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia as the case may be, necessitate a variation in the terms of the Agreement, the proposal to vary those terms shall form the subject of consultation between the two Governments.

Signed on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.

STANLEY BALDWIN.

Signed on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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20th August, 1932.

S. M. BRUCE.

UNITED KINGDOM-UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

We, the representatives of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and of His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa, hereby agree with one another, on behalf of our respective Governments, as follows:

ARTICLE 1. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom undertake that Orders shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of the Import Duties Act, 1932, which will ensure the continuance after the 15th November, 1932, of entry free of duty into the United Kingdom of South African goods which comply with the law and statutory regulations for the time being in force affecting the grant of Imperial preference and which by virtue of that Act are now free of duty, subject, however, to the reservations set forth in Schedule A appended hereto.