AVIATION ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN By a note from the British Ambassador to the Secretary of State, dated March 28, 1935, the reply of the Secretary of State, dated April 5, 1935, and a further note from the British Ambassador, dated April 5, in acknowledgment of the note of the Secretary of State of that date, the United States and Great Britain entered into a reciprocal arrangement setting forth the conditions under which civil aircraft registered in certain territories of either country will be permitted to operate in certain territories of the other country. By another series of three notes exchanged between the British Ambassador and the Secretary of State, bearing the same dates as those for the arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft, the United States and Great Britain also entered into a reciprocal arrangement relating to the issuance of licenses to pilots of civil aircraft. Each of the two arrangements will come into force on May 5, 1935. The following is a résumé of several of the more important provisions of the arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft. The authorities in territories of either country to which the arrangement will apply will allow liberty of passage to and over those territories by aircraft registered in territories of the other country to which the arrangement will be applicable, subject to compliance with the terms of the arrangement and the laws and regulations in force in the territory entered. However, no regular air route or service may be established in territories of either country without the consent of the Government of that country, and air commerce conducted wholly within such territories may be reserved to aircraft registered therein. Certificates and licenses issued with respect to aircraft of the territories of the one country will be recognized as valid for flights over territories of the other country. The transportation of passengers and the importation or exportation of goods which may lawfully be imported or exported will be permitted in aircraft of the territories of the one country into or out of territories of the other country, subject to compliance with the laws and regulations in force in the latter territories. Equality of treatment with respect to duties or charges as applied to aircraft of the territories of the two countries will be observed in such cases. Aerodromes open to public air traffic in territories of one country will, insofar as they are under the control of the Government of that country, be opened to aircraft registered in territories of the other country. 134311-35- 4 Aircraft of the territories of either country making flights over territories of the other country must carry clear and visible nationality and registration marks whereby they may be recognized dur ing flights, and the members of the crew must be provided with the certificates and documents required under the regulations of the territories in which the aircraft is registered. Air traffic may be prohibited over specified areas in the territories of either country, no distinction being made in this respect between aircraft of the territories of the two countries engaged in international commerce. Under the terms of the arrangement relating to the issuance of pilot licenses, nationals of the United States belonging to continental United States and to other territories under the sovereignty, jurisdiction, or authority of the United States to which the arrangement will apply, will be entitled to obtain pilot licenses in Great Britain and Northern Ireland or the British colonies, overseas territories, protectorates, or mandated territories to which the arrangement will apply, under the same conditions as such licenses are issued to British subjects and British-protected persons, and such licenses will entitle the holders to the same rights and privileges in the matter of air pilotage as are enjoyed by British subjects or British-protected persons. In like manner British subjects or British-protected persons belonging to Great Britain and Northern Ireland or to British colonies, overseas territories, protectorates, or mandated territories to which the arrangement will apply, will be entitled to obtain pilot licenses in continental United States and other territories under the sovereignty, jurisdiction, or authority of the United States to which the arrangement will be applicable, under the same conditions as they are issued to nationals of the United States, and such licenses will entitle the holders to the same rights and privileges in the matter of air pilotage as are enjoyed by nationals of the United States. Both the arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft and the pilot arrangement will apply to continental United States and, in addition, to the following United States territories: Alaska American Samoa (comprising the island of Tutuila, the Manua The arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft will apply to Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, in addition, to the following British territories: Newfoundland, including Labrador Bahamas Barbados Bermuda British Guiana British Honduras Jamaica (including Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands) Leeward Islands and their dependencies, including: Antigua St. Christopher and Nevis Virgin Islands Trinidad and Tobago Windward Islands and their dependencies, including: Grenada St. Vincent St. Lucia The pilot arrangement will apply to Great Britain and Northern Ireland; to British territories covered by the arrangement relating to the operation of civil aircraft; and, in addition, to a number of British colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories in various parts of the world. Both arrangements will shortly be printed in full in the Executive Agreement Series. COMMERCE RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELGO-LUXEMBURG ECONOMIC UNION A trade agreement between the United States and Belgium, signed on February 27, 1935, stipulated that the agreement should come into force on the thirtieth day following its proclamation by the President of the United States and its simultaneous publication in the Moniteur Belge. Accordingly, the President on April 1, 1935, issued the following proclamation: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS It is provided in the Act of Congress of the United States of America, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 943), entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 ", that "For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining and commerce) by regu lating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the President, whenever he finds as a fact that any existing duties or other import restrictions of the United States or any foreign country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be promoted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time "(1) To enter into foreign trade agreements with foreign governments or instrumentalities thereof; and "(2) To proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into hereunder "; WHEREAS, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in the said Act of June 12, 1934, will be promoted by a foreign trade agreement between the United States of America and the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union; WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such foreign trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such Agreement were received and considered; WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into a foreign trade agreement by an exchange of notes, through my duly empowered plenipotentiary on February 27, 1935, with the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, through the duly empowered plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, which Agreement, in the English, French and Flemish languages, including two Schedules annexed thereto, in the English and French languages, is in words and figures as follows: [Here follow (1) the text of a note from the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. William Phillips, to the Honorable Pierre Forthomme, Senator, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Chief of the Belgian Delegation; (2) schedule I, Belgian tariff concessions, translated from the French; (3) schedule II, American tariff concessions; (4) identical notes in French and Flemish addressed to the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Phillips, by Senator Forthomme; (5) schedules of Belgian tariff concessions in French.] AND WHEREAS it is provided in the said exchange of notes that the Agreement shall come into force on the thirtieth day following proclamation thereof by the President of the United States of America and the simultaneous publication of the said Agreement in the Moniteur Belge; AND WHEREAS the understanding has been reached on both parts that the said proclamation of the Agreement by the President of the United States of America and the publication of the Agreement in the Moniteur Belge shall take place simultaneously on this first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five; whereupon the said Agreement will come into effect on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five; WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions and such continuances of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in that Agreement and the two Schedules thereunto annexed are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement: Now, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said Act of Congress of June 12, 1934, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement including the said Schedules, to the end that the whole and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on and from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five. Pursuant to the proviso in subsection (a) (2) of Section 1 (Sec. 350.) of the said Act of Congress of June 12, 1934, I shall from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE this first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five and of the Independence [SEAL] of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-ninth. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. |