NETHERLANDS.-Exchange of notes providing relief from double income tax on shipping profits. Signed at Washington September 13, October 19, and November 27, 1926. Effective as from January 1, 1921. Executive Agreement Series, No. 11. 112 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 433. NORWAY.-Exchange of notes providing relief from double income taz on shipping profits. Signed at Washington November 26, 1924, and January 23 and March 24, 1925. Effective (apparently) from August 11, 1924. Executive Agreement Series, No. 15. 67 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 417. SPAIN.-Exchange of notes providing relief from double income tax on shipping profits. Signed at Washington April 16 and June 10, 1930. Executive Agreement Series, No. 6. 120 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 407. The Treasury Department has, moreover, ascertained that the laws of certain countries are such as to render their nationals entitled to the foregoing exemption, as stated in an excerpt from Regulations 74, Income Tax, page 278, issued by the Treasury Department in 1929: The following is an incomplete list of the foreign countries which either impose no income tax, or, in imposing such tax, exempt from taxation so much of the income of a citizen of the United States nonresident in such foreign country and of a corporation organized in the United States as consists of earnings derived from the operation of a ship or ships documented under the laws of the United States: Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Persia, St. Lucia, Siam, Straits Settlements, Sweden, and Venezuela. FISHERIES MULTILATERAL TREATIES Convention for the preservation and protection of fur seals. Signed at Washington July 7, 1911; ratifications exchanged December 12, 1911; proclaimed by the President of the United States December 14, 1911. Effective December 15, 1911. 1 The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification are the United States of America, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia. 37 Stat. (pt. 2), 1542. Treaty Series, No. 564. Treaties, etc., III, 2966. Convention for the regulation of whaling. [Signed but not in force.] Signed at Geneva September 24, 1931; on behalf of the United States, March 31, 1932. The countries which have deposited instruments of ratification or adherence are the United States of America, Brazil, Monaco, Nicaragua, Norway, and the Sudan. Treaty Information, Bulletin No. 32, May, 1932, p. 21. BILATERAL TREATIES Canada (GREAT BRITAIN).—Agreement adopting, with certain modifications, the rules and method of procedure recommended in the award of September 7, 1910, of the North Atlantic Coast fisheries arbitration. Signed at Washington July 20, 1912; ratifications exchanged November 15, 1912; proclaimed November 16, 1912. Effective November 15, 1912. 37 Stat. (pt. 2), 1634. Treaty Series, No. 572. Treaties, etc., III, 2632. Charles, Treaties, III, 66. CANADA.-Convention for the preservation of the halibut fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Signed at Ottawa May 9, 1930; ratifications exchanged May 9, 1931; proclaimed May 14, 1931. Effective May 9, 1931. Treaty Series, No. 837. 121 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 45. CANADA.-Convention for the preservation of the sockeye salmon fisheries in the Fraser River system. [Signed but not in force.] Signed at Washington May 26, 1930. Effective on exchange of ratifications (Art. XI). Congressional Record, May 29, 1930, vol. 72, pt. 9, p. 9794. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY MULTILATERAL TREATIES Convention and protocol for the protection of industrial property. Signed at Washington June 2, 1911; ratifications deposited with the Government of the United States April 1, 1913; proclaimed by the President of the United States April 29, 1913. Effective May 1, 1913. Article 18 of the convention signed at The Hague November 6, 1925, states that it shall replace, as regards relations between the countries which ratify it, the convention of the Union of Paris of 1883, revised at Washington June 2, 1911, and its final protocol, which shall remain in force as regards relations with countries which have not ratified the later convention. The parties to the 1911 convention which are not parties to the convention of 1925 are Australia, Bulgaria, Ceylon, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Free City of Danzig, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Irish Free State, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, New Guinea, Norway, Papua, Rumania, and Sweden. 38 Stat. (pt. 2), 1645. Treaty Series, No. 579. Malloy, Treaties, III, 2953. Convention for the protection of patents, inventions, designs, and industrial models. (Fourth International Conference of American States.) Signed at Buenos Aires August 20, 1910; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the Argentine Republic May 1, 1911; proclaimed by the President of the United States July 29, 1914. Effective April 18, 1912. The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification or adherence are the United States of America, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. 38 Stat. (pt. 2), 1811. Convention for the protection of trade-marks. (Fourth international Conference of American States.) Signed at Buenos Aires August 20, 1910; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the Argentine Republic May 1, 1911; proclaimed by the President of the United States September 16, 1916. Effective May 18, 1912. The preamble of the convention for the protection of trade-marks and commercial names signed at Santiago April 28, 1923, declares that it is a revision of this convention. The parties to the convention of 1910 who are not parties to the convention of 1923 are Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. 39 Stat. (pt. 2), 1675. Convention for the protection of commercial, industrial, and agricultural trade-marks and commercial names. (Fifth International Conference of American States.) Signed at Santiago April 28, 1923; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of Chile June 16, 1925; proclaimed by the President of the United States January 12, 1927. Effective September 30, 1926. The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification are the United States of America, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Paraguay. See also the preceding convention, supra. 44 Stat. (pt. 3), 2494. Treaty Series, No. 751. 33 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 47. General inter-American convention for trade mark and commercial protection and protocol on the inter-American registration of trade marks. (Pan American Trade Mark Conference.) Signed at Washington February 20, 1929; ratification of the United States deposited with the Pan American Union February 17, 1931; proclaimed by the President of the United States February 27, 1931. Effective April 2, 1930; as to the United States February 17, 1931. The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification are the United States of America, Cuba, Haiti, and Guatemala. 46 Stat. (pt. 2), 2907. Treaty Series, No. 833. American Journal of International Law, July, 1929, p. 158. International convention for the protection of industrial property. Signed at The Hague November 6, 1925; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the Swiss Confederation January 22, 1931; proclaimed by the President of the United States March 6, 1931. Effective June 1, 1928; as to the United States March 6, 1931. The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification or adherence are the United States of America, Aegean Islands, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Eritrea, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Libya, Mexico, Morocco (French) and Morocco (Spanish), the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Western Samoa, Spain, Switzerland, Syria and the Lebanon, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunis, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Treaty Series, No. 834. 74 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 289. BILATERAL TREATIES BELGIUM.-Trade-mark convention. Signed at Washington April 7, 1884; ratifications exchanged July 7, 1884; proclaimed July 9, 1884. Effective "on the day of its official publication". (Art. III.) 23 Stat., 766. Treaty Series, No. 31. Malloy, Treaties, I, 104. BELGIUM.-Agreement effected by exchange of notes for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks in China. Signed at Peking November 27, 1905. Treaty Series, No. 480. Malloy, Treaties, I, 111. BRAZIL.-Agreement for the protection of the marks of manufacture and trade. Signed at Rio de Janeiro September 24, 1878; ratified by the President of the United States February 5, 1879; proclaimed June 17, 1879. Effective February 5, 1879. 21 Stat., 659. Treaty Series, No. 36. Malloy, Treaties, I, 146. DENMARK.-Trade-mark convention. Signed at Copenhagn June 15, 1892; ratifications exchanged September 28, 1892; proclaimed October 12, 1892. Effective September 28, 1892. 27 Stat., 963. Treaty Series, No. 72. |